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CMHC report on New Home Market Condominium Apartment Starts on the Rise
2008-06-04 11:53:00 New Home Market Condominium Apartment Starts on the Rise Condominium apartment startsdominated new home constructionduring April in the Greater TorontoArea (GTA). Pre-constructioncondominium apartment sales fromthe last two years continued toconvert into strong housing startslast month. On an unadjusted basis, total housingstarts through the first four monthsof 2008 were up by approximately47 per cent compared to the sametime ... More About: Report
Your Friend, Your Agent?
2008-06-04 07:25:00 The Washington Post had a story, Your Friend , Your Agent ?, debating the merits of hiring your frends v.s. hiring some stranger to assist one in a home purchase or sale. The article includes several stories of buyers and sellers who chose relatives or friends over someone they didn’t know, and discussed the merits of ...
Housing spending hits $19.8B in Q1
2008-06-03 21:16:00 Canadians spent $19.8 billion on housing through the first three months of this year, up 7.5 per cent from the first quarter of 2007, Statistics Canada said Monday. The overall value includes spending on new housing construction, on renovations and on acquisition costs, which include sales tax, land development charges and fees and premiums for ... More About: Housing , Spending , Hits
Trouble in the Southland
2008-06-03 20:37:00 Some of you may have noticed that San Diego listings on Redfin.com haven’t been updated over the weekend. Sandicor, the San Diego area MLS, has been having some issues that mean it can’t export listing data to MLS-powered websites like ours. We’ve talked to the folks over at Sandicor and they’re working hard to resolve the ...
Trouble in the Southland
2008-06-03 20:37:00 Some of you may have noticed that San Diego listings on Redfin.com haven’t been updated over the weekend. Sandicor, the San Diego area MLS, has been having some issues that mean it can’t export listing data to MLS-powered websites like ours. We’ve talked to the folks over at Sandicor and they’re working hard to resolve the ...
San Francisco Home Sales Data - May 2008
2008-06-03 19:29:00 It’s summer. Seriously! I know it’s overcast and cloudy, but it’s June, and that means the summer real estate buying season is at hand. As I do every month, I ran the latest sales figures from the month of May for you. The numbers this month don’t really have a common thread - except that sales volume ... More About: San Francisco , Sales , Home , Data , Francisco
Sold in 2 Days With an Open House!!!
2008-05-29 21:53:00 Our Open house success stories continue! The most recent is from Scarborough Ontario: Owner’s testimony Wow! I can’t believe we helped our mother sell her house on the very first day we had our open house…that’s only less than 2 days after posting our listing on ByTheOwner.com!! The open house was a success, people were attracted ... More About: House , Days , Open House , Sold
CMHC reports that Growth in house prices will slow as housing market become
2008-05-29 19:57:00 Growth in house prices will slow as housing market becomes more balancedFor 2008, the demand will moderate.Existing home sales, as measured bythe Multiple Listing service (MLS®),are expected to decrease by 8.5 percent to 475,900 units. In 2009, thetrend will be similar with anotherdecrease to 465,000 units (-2.3 percent). MLS® sales will step back givena moderating ... More About: House , House Prices , Market , Housing , Growth
There?s Still Room to Register for the NEN Clean and Green Summit
2008-05-29 19:29:00 Come join the Neighborhood Empowerment Network this Saturday morning for the first Clean and Green Summit ! According the the NEN Web Site ”the NEN is a collaborative platform that serves as a central engagement point for communities to find and share information that will empower them to make their neighborhoods a better place to live. The NEN ... More About: Room , Register
Toronto MLS Rentals Up
2008-05-29 10:26:00 In the first four months of 2008, leased condominium activity transacted through the Toronto MLS system increased nine per cent to 3,075 townhouse/apartment units. Rents trended upward during this period, increasing in all categories except three bedroom apartment units. Benchmark two-bedroom apartments rose four per cent to $1,852 per month, and one bedroom apartments rose the ... More About: Rentals
Vacation Condo Vs. Hotel Room
2008-05-29 10:00:00 Is it more economical to stay in a hotel or a condo when you travel? How to save money on places to stay on your next vacation. Dollar for dollar, condos beat hotel rooms by a long shot. Why? Even if you spend 30 percent more staying in a beach-front condo, you’ll save more than that ... More About: Hotel , Vacation , Condo , Room
Is A Condo A Money Pit?
2008-05-29 09:39:00 Don’t let the surge in prices fool you: The condo craze is all bubble. Worse, living in a condo can be maddeningly complex — and costly. Any time speculators tell you that things are different this time, you should beware. Yet that’s exactly what some investors and experts are saying about the condominium market. They insist the ... More About: Money , Condo
Illegal Immigrants Have Cash for Homes
2008-05-29 09:06:00 The solution to the current real estate recession is as obvious as the noses on our faces. It is not loaning hundreds of billions of dollars to investment bankers. It is not more regulation of the capital markets. It is not offering new tax credits to home builders and home buyers. It is most certainly ... More About: Illegal Immigrants , Homes , Cash , Illegal , Immigrants
Standard Pacific gets private equity bailout
2008-05-29 03:25:00 Struggling home builder Standard Pacific got a big-time private equity bailout today by investors who will gobble up a bunch of equity in exchange for a nice cash infusion. They’ve also been able to restructure about $13 billion worth of debt through MaitlinPatterson. We’ve seen this with the banks taking on huge amounts of cash from ... More About: Private Equity , Private , Bailout
Getting Good Deals in a Tough Market: 7 Negotiating Techniques
2008-05-29 00:27:00 The two most dreaded words in real estate today must be “low” and “baller.” So publishing a how-to guide for lowballers is a little like hanging a kick-me sign around our neck. We’re the ones who have to make deals happen, even when our client is convinced a house in Palo Alto is overpriced by 15%. Yes, ... More About: Market , Good , Tough
Technical Difficulties
2008-05-28 23:22:00 My apologies… we’ve been doing some upgrading around these parts, and as is often the case… upgrading does weird stuff. So pardon the dust while we’re under a bit of construction…….. we’ll back back to our regularly scheduled programming in no time. More About: Technical
New condominium projects launched
2008-05-23 00:11:00 Toronto’s high-rise condo market is on track with 2007 Urbanation “” www.urbanation.ca “” released its Toronto condominium market numbers for the First Quarter of 2008. Editor Jane Renwick states, “With 17 new condominium projects already launched in Q2/08, Urbanation’s Q1/08 Survey shows divergence between low rise and high rise real estate markets, with the high rise ... More About: Projects , Launched
Surprise, Surprise Alt-A and Subprime Delinquencies are?¦UP
2008-05-22 16:42:00 Reuters has the 411 on mortgage repayment and the results shouldn’t surprise anyone. Alt-A (your good credit no income) loans and subprime (bad credit, not-so-much income) loan repayments are slowing and delinquencies are rising. No surprise either that the 2007 vintage of subprime mortgages is the worst on record as those that got in last are ... More About: Subprime
PolicyMap - Killer tool for real estate
2008-05-22 13:42:00 I just found out about PolicyMap a new service that lets you map an insane amount of data by region on all subjects ranging from mortgage originations, neighborhood crime stats and income demographics (and tons more). This could become a killer tool for homeowners looking to buy a home and for real estate agents and ... More About: Estate , Real Estate , Tool , Killer , Real
After Blogging, Only Shame
2008-05-22 13:12:00 The inevitable blog post about a blogger’s feelings on blogging doesn’t do much for me. The confessional tone is often only a more devious ploy for attention, and the solipsism of the post is an uncomfortable reminder of the solipsism of the form, with everyone talking to ourselves, while hardly anyone listens. So why, when I ... More About: Blogging , Shame
CMHC reports on economic outlook
2008-05-22 10:57:00 At a glance:Mortgage RatesEmploymentIncomeNet MigrationNatural PopulationIncreaseConsumer ConfidenceResale MarketVacancy Rates Mortgage rates have moved slightly higher over the past year. This rise, in conjunctionwith higher house prices, has and will continue to push mortgage carrying costs higher. As a result, this will ease housing demand, particularly for first-time buyers. A record share of Canadians continue to be employed, moving ... More About: Outlook , Economic
Even A-listers are feeling the effects of falling house prices
2008-05-22 09:15:00 Hollywood bust as celebrities feel the credit crunch Dido may be able to play the piano and the violin, but coping with the Hollywood property market has meant a little fine-tuning for the mistress of hotel-foyer melodies. The 36-year-old British singer has become the latest celebrity to take a hit as high-end houses in America show ... More About: House , House Prices , Feeling , Effects , Prices
14 Amazing Art Floating on a Cup of Coffee
2008-05-22 08:35:00 It’s amazing! The skills and time people have. These are some amazing art floating on a cup of coffee. [Bookmark It] ... More About: Coffee , Amazing , Floating , Cup of coffee
Tips to Successful Real Estate Open Houses in a Slow Economy
2008-05-22 07:45:00 In the last 18 months there has been a higher inventory of unsold homes. That has contributed to an increase in the use of open houses as a sales tool. It is an effective way to get the word out in the immediate neighborhood about your property. Also, your neighbors can be your best sales ... More About: Economy , Estate , Real Estate , Houses , Tips
Crooked mortgage broker fined $29K for potty mouth
2008-05-22 07:01:00 By all appearances, Aaron Wider is the chief executive of a flourishing mortgage bank in Garden City, issuing more than $33 million in home loans to buyers across Nassau and Suffolk counties over the past four years. A closer look at his lending practices, however, reveals that many of these loans relied on faulty appraisals and ... More About: Mortgage , Mouth , Broker
World Savings to Brokers ?Just call it ?deferred interest??ť
2008-05-22 04:09:00 CBS Channel 5 up here in the Bay Area blows the cover off of some internal World Savings “Broker Training” videos that show brokers how to obfuscate and sell the Pick-a-Pay Option ARM to borrowers. You can view the training video here. My favorite line? “Most brokers refer to them as negative amortization, but we try ... More About: Brokers , Interest , Call
Housing Starts Jump in April
2008-05-16 15:02:00 Builders picked up the building pace in April as the industry streaked past analyst estimates for new home starts. Led mainly by the development of multi-family projects builders showed that they exist to do one thing - build. While the country still faces a massive glut in properties builders are placing their bets in lower-cost ... More About: Housing , Jump
The Giant Pool of Money, Explained
2008-05-16 13:36:00 By far the best explanation I’ve heard of the Housing Mortage/Credit Crisis is — improbably — a podcast from the motherlode of story-telling on NPR, This American Life. This podcast is a bit different from their usual slice-o-life stories in that they try to explain something extremely complex and abstract — but in personal stories. ... More About: Money , Giant , Pool
Open Shutter to the Past: San Francisco in Pictures - Bay to Breakers (1965
2008-05-16 12:16:00 Welcome back to Photo Friday - my little way of taking a break from San Francisco Real Estate and instead blogging about our great City’s past instead. All photos are published with permission from the San Francisco History Center and San Francisco Public Library. Most of you know that the San Francisco Bay to Breakers is ... More About: Pictures , Open , Past , Shutter
Sell your Home Online for Free
More articles from this author:2008-05-16 12:06:00 Fizber.com is offering FREE home listings on their web site. As the real estate market tightens across the U.S., Fizber.com is now offering free home listings to help home sellers save money in a down real estate market. What You Get For FREE: Listing on Fizber with up to 20 Photos ... More About: Home , Free , Online , Sell 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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