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Short Sales-What Are They and How Do They Work?
2007-09-18 19:25:00 If you bought a vacation home using the equity in your primary residence to finance it, the current housing slump could have placed you ?upside down? in your mortgage debt versus the current value of your home. If you plan on keeping your primary home for a while, this debt to equity slide may pose ... More About: Buying , Sales , Work , Short
Insuring Second Homes
2007-09-17 20:24:00 If you are second home shopping this fall, think about insurance issues as you do property tours. The recent upheaval in the mortgage markets has a corollary set of issues and complexities in the property and casualty insurance business. In the wake of the bankrupting of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) by Katrina and other ... More About: Buying , Homes
Top Viewed Listings on 2ndhome.net
2007-09-14 16:10:00 Here are the top viewed listings on 2ndhome.net for the past week. #1 is a 3 bedrooms, 3 bathroom waterfront home on Mascoma Lake in Enfield, New Hampshire listed for $1,900,000 by RE/MAX Group One REALTORS. #2 is a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom cabin on 5.51 acres in Tollgate Canyon, Park City, Utah listed for $349,900 by ... More About: Buying , Selling , Market , Listings
College Towns Offer Second Home Investment Potential
2007-09-13 21:30:00 Despite the beating some housing markets have taken since mid-2006, many second home markets are holding their own and some are continuing to appreciate. In fact, the National Association of Realtors? says that overall, second home sales were up almost 5% in 2006. The investor segment within the second home market took a big hit in ... More About: Buying , College , Market , Investment , Home
What you can get for around $1.5 million
2007-09-12 21:54:00 Let’s say you’ve got somewhere between $1.3 million and $1.7 million to spend on your next vacation home. What kind of place can you get for that kind of money? Well, it really depends on where you’re looking. Here are some examples. Ephraim, Wisconsin: $1,695,000 3 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms, 4000 square feet, .74 acres Holland, Michigan: $1,549,000 6 bedrooms, ... More About: Buying , Market , Local , Million
9 Steps to a Healthier Lawn
2007-09-11 22:29:00 OK, so you are ready to change your focus to fall projects, including leaf raking and disposal. But there are still ways to improve the health of your lawn for the next summer season. Work that you do now can strengthen the root systems and top growth of your lawn before snow flies, making it ... More About: Gardening , Landscaping , Steps , Heal
Top Viewed Listings for the Week
2007-09-07 16:46:00 Here are the top viewed listings on 2ndhome.net for the past week: #1 is a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom home on 5.51 acres in Tollgate Canyon, Park City, Utah, listed for $349,900 by Pine Meadows Properties. #2 is a 5 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom, waterfront home on 3.56 acres in Sunapee, New Hampshire listed for $3,950,000 by New London ... More About: Buying , Listings , Local , Week
The Green Revolution: Greener Homes, Greener Brokers
2007-09-06 22:01:00 With real world evidence mounting every day that global climate change is indeed real, the flow toward adopting ?green? strategies in every business (and our personal lives) is approaching flood stage. The way in which we build, buy and sell our homes, representing one of the nations largest economic engines, is in many ways leading the ... More About: Buying , Selling , Market , Green , Brokers
What you can get for $500K
2007-09-05 20:28:00 Last week we featured million dollar listings from around the country. This week, we?ll look at homes that are a bit more affordable ? those around $500,000. Rising Fawn, Georgia: $519,000 3 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, 2425 square feet, .44 acres Naalehu, Hawaii: $500,000 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, unknown square footage, .35 acres Mchenry, Illinois: $499,900 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, unknown square ... More About: Buying , Market
2007 List of Endangered Historic Spaces
2007-09-04 17:42:00 For twenty years the National Trust for Historic Preservation has issued a list of the ?Most Endangered Historic Spaces? in the United States. This broadly defined category in past years has designated buildings and neighborhoods threatened by development. In 2004 the Trust defined the entire State of Vermont as being endangered by development pressures. This year’s ... More About: News , Market , List
Prepare your vacation home for the off-season
2007-09-01 16:39:00 The end of the summer vacation season is here (where did the summer go?), and for many that means closing up your vacation home for the winter. Properly closing up your vacation home allows you to worry a lot less over the winter about what you’ll find there come spring. About.com has a great article on ... More About: Tools , Home , Vacation , Season , Seas
Top Viewed Listings on 2ndhome.net
2007-08-31 18:50:00 Here are the top viewed properties on 2ndhome.net for the past week. #1 is a condominium-style home in Saratoga, Wyoming listed at $210,000 by Century 21 Cornerstone Realty. #2 is a 3 bedroom, 2 bath home on .94 acres in Park City/Tollgate Canyon, Utah listed for $529,000 by Pine Meadows Properties. #3 is a 10+ acre piece of ... More About: Buying , Selling , Listings
Is Laminate Flooring For You?
2007-08-30 16:30:00 In my last kitchen remodeling job, I looked at all of the flooring options. Since I had done an earlier kitchen project, the array of available flooring materials has exploded. Not least of these new materials is the laminate floor category. What began as a cheap (and cheap looking) alternative to hardwood strip flooring has ... More About: Design , Products , Flooring , Nate , Mina
Million Dollar Second Homes Round-Up
2007-08-29 16:10:00 This is the first post in a new series that will showcase what you can get for your money in different second home markets around the country. This week we’re focusing on homes that are roughly $1 million. Payson, AZ: $1,050,000 4 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms, 3000 square feet, 0.7 acres East Sandwich, MA: $997,000 6 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, unknown ... More About: Buying , Market , Dollar , Round Up , Homes
Looking for a Summer ?Cottage?? Have we got a deal for you!
2007-08-28 16:29:00 Just in case you have a spare $16 million kicking around, here?s a lovely coastal ?cottage? for sale in Newport, RI with lots of room to entertain. More About: Buying , Summer , Cottage , Deal
Global Climate Change issues Make Green Building HOT
2007-08-27 21:18:00 As the reality of Global Climate Change has been increasingly accepted around the world, it?s presumed effects have prompted examinations of how we live out lives. One of the principal changes that have been quick to take hold to cope with the new realities is the emergence of Green Building . This is the application ... More About: Design
Top Three Listings on 2ndhome.net
2007-08-24 20:09:00 The top three most-viewed properties on 2ndhome.net for the past week are: #1 is a $295,000, 2+ bedroom, 1 bathroom cabin in Tollgate Canyon, Park City, Utah listed by Pine Meadows Properties. #2 is a $499,000 log home on 21.6 acres in Moorefield, West Virginia listed by Coldwell Banker Home Town Realty. #3 is a $595,000, 3 bedroom, ... More About: Buying , Listings , Local
Florida Timeshare Sales Booming
2007-08-24 14:45:00 What?? When I first saw this article, I thought it must be old news, outdated by the ‘07 real estate downturn. After all, wasn?t the peak of time-share ownership sometime in the 70?s or 80?s? Today, the industry usually prefers the term ?fractional ownership?. But no, the headline refers to a current reality, detailed in a ... More About: News , Buying , Market , Sales , Florida
Second Home Mortgages
2007-08-23 16:43:00 The U.S. mortgage market is going though a period of dislocation related to the increasing level of loan defaults, particularly on so-called sub-prime loans. While it started in the sub-prime market, the difficulties there have begun to bleed over into the regular mortgage market. As a result, formerly solid lenders, such as Countrywide (the nation’s ... More About: Buying , Finance , Home , Mortgages , Mort
Buying a New Home? Ask for more from the Seller
2007-08-22 15:49:00 In most markets around the U.S., it is a buyers market in residential real estate these days. It doesn?t matter if you are buying a primary residence or a second home. The current real estate market puts buyers in the drivers seat. In a recent article from Realty Times, columnist Anthony Carr advises buyers to be ... More About: Buying , Home , Seller
How Fractional Ownership and Baby Boomers are changing the Second Home Mark
2007-08-21 15:49:00 There has been a lot of mention in various media of the impact of the baby boom generation on the economy. Bob Waun, of Vacation Finance , has written an article that outlines the demographic facts about the boomers and how they will impact the second home market in years to come. More About: Baby , Home , Changing , Boomers
Top Viewed Listings for the Week on 2ndhome.net
2007-08-20 16:47:00 Here are the top viewed listings on 2ndhome.net for last week. #1 is a $795,000, 3 bedroom, 3.5 bathroom new construction on 1.5 acres in Fish Creek, Wisconsin listed by Century 21 Door Properties. #2 is a $679,000 4 bedroom, 4.5 bath home on .35 acres in Freeport, Texas listed by Brannan Realty. #3 is a $300,000, 3 bedroom ... More About: International , Listings , Week
Boomers opt for Active Retirement: Fitness and Recreation are Priorities
2007-08-18 00:53:00 In an advertising campaign designed to reinvigorate the then flagging and now defunct Oldsmobile product line, GM pitched it as ?not your father?s Oldsmobile?. With apologies to the ad copy writers involved with that campaign, of the generational and societal change taking place as boomers near retirement it might be said: it?s not your ... More About: Fitness , Retirement , Recreation , Boomers , Active
Advice for Younger Baby Boomers: Buy Retirement Home Now, Move in Later
2007-08-15 16:41:00 With prices in many areas at a low ebb, it might make good financial sense for Baby Boomers to buy their retirement homes now, even if they’re still years away from actually moving. They can find renters who will pay the bills until they’re ready to live there. Here?s some advice for people who are considering ... More About: Advice , Buying , Retirement , Home
Second Home Tax Issues
2007-08-14 23:39:00 If we ever needed another example of how convoluted U.S. tax law has become, it can be seen in the outline in an article from Realty Times on how the tax code deals with vacation home ownership expenses and deductions. If your family uses your vacation home and you also rent for part of the year, ... More About: Taxes , Home , Issues , Issue
Keeping Your Pets Pest Free: Some valuable suggestions
2007-08-13 16:44:00 Vacations at the shore are mostly sheer pleasure. But the sandy shoreline can have some drawbacks, especially for our furry friends. A sand flea or tick infestation could put a damper on your whole vacation. Americans spend ½ billion dollars a year on flea and tick control products. Some of the substances used to control these ... More About: Products , Pets , Free , Pest
Buying a Vacation Home? Don?t Go for the Lowest Possible Price.
2007-08-10 21:37:00 Often in a buyer?s market homebuyers will try to get the absolute rock-bottom price on a home they are purchasing. While this sounds like common sense on the surface, you might actually be doing more harm than good. So, right now you?re probably thinking, ?What?!? Are you crazy!?! Of course I want to get the lowest ... More About: Buying , Finance , Home , Vacation , Price
Top Viewed Listings of the Week
2007-08-10 16:47:00 These were the top viewed listings on 2ndhome.net during the past week: #1 is a 3 bedrooms, 3 ½ bathroom, $2.25 Million home with 700? of waterfront on the East River on 8.6 acres in Mathews, Virginia listed by Frank Hardy REALTORS. #2 is a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, ocean view home in Naalehu, Hawaii for $500,000 ... More About: Buying , Listings , Week
Preparing for an Open House? Here?s a Checklist to Help You Out
2007-08-09 18:34:00 Open houses can be a great way to attract a lot of buyers in a short period of time, including those just getting ready to buy who might not be working with an agent yet. GetHappyHome.com has a great checklist to help sellers prepare for an open house. Tips include: Attend to any potential hazards ? ... More About: House , Selling , Open , Open House , Ouse
Make the Most Out of Your Small Kitchen
More articles from this author:2007-08-08 22:56:00 Older cottages might be blessed with many things: lake or ocean views, large lot sizes, etc., but they are often lacking in the kitchen department. Often space was limited anyway, and there was more emphasis placed on bedrooms and living rooms since the original owners probably planned on cooking outdoors more often than not. But what ... More About: Design , Kitchen , Small , Make , Chen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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