Oprah’s the girl next door?
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The success of home staging and other cosmetic make-overs, seems to indicate that buyers viewing a property may not know how to look beyond the surface to visualize their own lives and taste superimposed on someone else’s personal space. Buyers may benefit from making a conscious effort to strengthen their visioning ability since the acquired [...]

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Build more conveniently located homes in walkable neighborhoods and not only will people get more housing choices, drive times will shrink and that will reduce the nation’s carbon footprint.
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At first it may seem like a no brainer, low-hanging fruit and child’s play, but purchasing in a down market is not as easy as it may seem. The problem is not a shortage of homes or a lack of sellers willing to bargain, rather it’s that buying in such a market can be risky. [...]

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Through the first half of calendar 2007, builder revenues are down, home deliveries are off and pretax profits are well below year earlier levels. According to Fitch’s new forecast for the balance of 2007, it appears likely that builders’ financial pressures will continue unabated with full year revenues dropping 30 to 35 percent, on average, [...]

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FHA-insured home mortgages — marginalized or squeezed out of the market during the subprime loan boom years — are poised to roar back. And if Congress passes a compromise version of FHA reform legislation, maximum loan limits for FHA could rise immediately to $417,000 — or even a lot higher.
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Chicken Little is nobody’s hero.
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“Right now, there is a crisis of trust and [consumers] don’t know who they can or cannot trust,” says Tim Sandos, President and CEO of the National Association of Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP).
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Question: I own a condominium unit here in the District of Columbia and believe that our association is having financial problems. Recently, I sent a letter to our Board of Directors, asking for a copy of the most recent monthly financial report, as well as the name and mailing address of all co-owners. The Board [...]

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