As we all know, buyers are skittish these days. They think home prices are going to fall and that the home they want will stay on the market forever — until they feel like buying it. They think that they can get a better deal on their mortgage if they just wait.
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With the housing crisis in full bloom, sometimes it’s good to take comfort in ways builders and architects are defying the odds — such as taking a 1930s Los Angeles theater district art-deco high rise building and turning it into loft condominiums.
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Question: I’ve been a Realtor for a little over a year and after a rocky start am earning a decent income. There’s something that really bugs me, however. Another woman in our office who began at the same time I did — I’ll call her Molly — is setting all sorts of sales records and [...]

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Could last week’s surprise 12 percent jump in the number of people applying for mortgages to purchase a home be a hint that the Spring real estate market could be better than a lot of the pundits believe?
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When I first started out in real estate, buyers and sellers hired real estate agents primarily because agents held the keys the information vault. Knowledge is power, and because agents had exclusive access to the MLS and other sources of information, consumers had to hire agents in order to buy or sell a home.
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As Canadian house prices continue to rise, housing affordability has become a serious problem for many Canadians. While a recent report from RBC Economics says that affordability should improve in the coming year, another report warns that household incomes are not keeping up with debt and many families may not be able to cope financially [...]

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