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4 Bdrm 4 bath 4,400 sq./ft. hillside home on 4 plus acres, 7 min. from Middleton. Master suite with whirlpool and deck. Fieldstone fireplace, wraparound porch, storm/wine cellar, spectacular room to grow marijuana, open floor plan, elevator and handicap accessible with in-law suite. 2 1/2 car garage with lower level shop. Separate 40' x 60' ...
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DIANA GOLOBAY
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HousingWire
Berkadia Commercial Mortgage, a newly formed entity owned by Berkshire Hathaway and Leucadia National Corp., provided more than $28m for construction and refinance purposes. Berkadia recently originated a $18.7 loan through its Freddie Mac (FRE: 1.16 0.00%) approval program to refinance Altamont Summit in Portland, Ore. (pictured above), ...
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Jon Lansner
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Mortgage Insider
Get real estate news on the go
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Text messaging isn’t just for teens! We think you’ll love to get your daily dose of Orange County real estate headlines on your cell phone. The Register real estate news team is now text messaging every day the top Orange County housing and mortgage news directly to your cell phone. (Yeah, we wish we had a [...] Get real estate news on the go ...
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Jim
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RealCentralVA.com
More Charlottesville Real Estate Data than You Might Have Wanted
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This is going to be a developing post as I read through Barry Merchant's presentation from this morning. Barry Merchant's VHDA presentation at Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors (PDF) Additionally, Here is an advance copy of the Nest Report, what we believe to be the best, most "comprehensive and transparent analysis of the residential ...
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Chron.com Real Estate
Real estate transactions
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INDUSTRIAL: YH Development has sold the Fallbrook Business Center, a 40,450-square-foot office/warehouse building at 8726 Fallbrook Drive, to Master Flo for its valve repair and maintenance business. YH Development is an investment group set up by a Houston-based Yancey-Hausman Interests. Forbes Henderson, vice president of Yancey-Hausman, ...
Realestalker.blogspot.com
Jeffrey Katzenberg's Big Real Estate Deal
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I suppose it's every titan's dream to own a hilltop in Beverly Hills but it looks like a teardown from the air. The way the tennis court is crammed up against the driveway it seems that most of the acreage must be of the "sloping" variety.
John Fedro
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Real Estate Investing For Real
Improve Your Productivity: 4 Great Ways to Clone Yourself While Real Estate Investing
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Congratulations! You are pursuing a career in the lucrative world of real estate investing. The sky’s the limit. Isn’t it? We are all bound by the same 24 hours in each day. Our current unique lifestyle is a result how each one of us has used this precious time. Here are a few tactics, out of [...] This Article is Copyright © ...
John Ford
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Boston Real Estate Blog
MA Real Estate Listings
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More Boston homes were listed for sale in January compared to the previous month, according to a new report. Nationwide, January marked the first time in 18 months that more homes were listed for sale compared to the previous month, with an additional 15,000 homes, or a 2.9 percent increase, listed for sale compared to December, [...]
John Ford
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Boston Real Estate Blog
Problems with the Boston Real Estate Blog
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I’m sorry, but DreamingCode, my web site provider, has temporarily “disabled the allowing of comments” to correct a spam problem. Once DreamingCode fixes the blog I will let you know. Thank you for your patience, John Ford
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Ask CEOs to pick their favorite color and what they select will often be very different than what most people would pick. COLOR TEST: Take the free aptitude test CEO’s favorite colors are 877 members of USA TODAY’s CEO panel took an online personality color test, they were three times more likely to favor magenta than the public [...]

I was reading the Banker & Tradesman and came across an interesting article. It has to do with the professionalism and knowledge of mortgage loan originators. As you might imagine, this affects my business so it piqued my interest. It seems that something called the Secure and Fair Enforcement for Mortgage Licensing Act of 2008 [...]
 
Sarah Davies
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Urbnlivn
Last week there were 23 condo and town home sales according to Redfin. Here’s a look at 5 of them: Marselle sold two units this week. One on the second floor for $308/sq ft, and one on the third floor for $324/sq ft. We had a lively discussion back in November over the views [...]

RICHMOND - The City of Richmond is under a Federal and State mandate to help cleanup the stormwater runoff that's polluting the Chesapeake Bay. It's costing Richmond nearly $9 million dollars to upgrade it's drainage system. Costing the average taxpayer $45 bucks and much more for businesses and churches.
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Rachelrosen
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Zillow Blog
From Yakima, WA, in the Buying Foreclosures section of Home Buying Advice, within Zillow Advice, misssassy1146 asks: “How do I short sale my house?” Having been through a short sale myself, my opinions are very biased. That being said, I’ll share my personal experience, which I found to be very similar to the many short sale ...
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Melissa Zavala
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AgentGenius
Short Sales: Is It Strategic Default or Harsh Reality?
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Determine the Source of the Hardship There has been a lot of information in the news lately about strategic default. Strategic default is the decision of a borrower to stop making payments (to default) on a debt despite having the financial ability to continue making those payments. Whatever your opinion might be about participating in a ...
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Jon Lansner
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Lansner on Real Estate
Does sales burst confirm housing bottom?
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My latest column for The Register discussed “6 signs of a housing bottom” as seen in year-end, ZIP-by-ZIP Orange County pricing and sales data from DataQuick. You can read the COLUMN HERE! One stat that caught my eye was that sales momentum was broader than I’d thought “as year-over-year gains were found in 72 of Orange [...
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Several upcoming changes will soon increase the cost of buying a home. On March 31st, the Fed will stop buying mortgage-backed securities. The Fed has purchased $1.25 TRILLION (yes, Martha, that’s a “T”) of MBS in a successful effort to keep mortgage interest rates low and thereby “stimulate” the economy. (dunno about you, but I&

MaureenMcCabe
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Columbusbestblog
BalletMet – Twitter Contest I am willing to share this with you even though it will decrease my chances of winning tickets to BalletMets’s Midsummer Nights Dream… for Valentines Day 2010. BalletMet – Twitter Contest You tweet your worst Valentines Day. #BadVday BalletMet If you are on Twitter you can compete ...
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MaureenMcCabe
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Columbusbestblog
Columbus Seasonal Kick Off
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Today is the beginning of home buying season. Super Bowl or the end of the professional football season is the kick off the home buying seaon according to a 2005 article in CNN.Money. com written by Sarah Max, CNN/Money senior writer: Kick off! Game plan for home buyers Columbus Ohio native, Harley Rouda Jr. was [...]
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Diane Tuman
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Zillow Blog
Bernie Madoff’s Penthouse Has a Buyer
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It looks like Bernie Madoff’s penthouse apartment in Manhattan’s Upper East Side has gone into contract for an undisclosed price, according to Curbed (via the Wall Street Journal). While the apartment at 133 E 64th St, New York, NY, 10065 still shows a $8.9 million price tag, it was originally listed at $9.9 million last [...]
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Humanitri and the Saint Louis County Department of Human Services will more than double the number of transitional housing units available for homeless families as part of a $2.5 million federal grant.

Actress/megabrand Ashley Olsen is expecting to take a loss on her 2,332-square-foot house in Los Angeles’ Hancock Park neighborhood, having just placed it on the market for $1,399,000. (...)
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Just wanted to let everyone know that I updated the Condo Rankings page late last week. It had been around 9-10 months since I had last updated the page so it’s something that was long overdue. I only adjusted the location and risk scores and left the other columns untouched. Santa Maria still ranks #1 [...]

With revenues well below expectations and frustrations high in the suburbs, the year-old "mobility tax" might be up for an overhaul. Governor Paterson on Monday announced a plan for some major changes to the payroll tax, changes he said would fetch the originally intended revenues—$1.54 billion a year—and shift the burden away from the ...

What do Stephen Ross, Steve Roth, Mort Zuckerman, Douglas Durst, Ric Clark and Gerald Hines have in common? The six landlords are all vying to take a stake in 1 World Trade Center, the since-renamed 1,776-foot "Freedom Tower" that is being developed by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. According to multiple people familiar with the ...
A new study from Movoto Online Real Estate released Monday shows there is a correlation between school performance and home prices in select neighborhoods in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio.
If 2009 was the Orange County housing market's bottom, then here's six things we may have learned as I peek at the 2009 full-year report from our pals at DataQuick ...
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Neighborhood Housing Partnership of Greater Springfield in Clark County will receive $130,000 and Sensible Shelter Inc. in Greene County will receive $30,900.
 
Annalisa Burgos
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FrontDoor Unlocked
Has the Saints' miraculous Super Bowl win got you thinking about moving South? Check out New Orleans homes for sale on HGTV's FrontDoor.com and live in the city of Saints. Just in time for Mardi Gras.

RISMEDIA, February 9, 2010—Earth911.com, provider of one of the nation’s leading Local Recycling and Disposal Directories, released the results of its 2009 Annual Recycling Report, with electronics such as computers, batteries and televisions leading the way. “Electronics have always been popular…
RISMEDIA, February 9, 2010—The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) moved to protect distressed homeowners from the promoters of bogus foreclosure rescue and mortgage modification services by proposing a new rule that would forbid companies to charge up-front for these services. Instead,…
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