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It seems that everyone has an opinion about the real estate market. It is not unusual for me to get peppered at social gatherings with questions and opinions about housing trends as well as glass ball forecasting. You see, I live and breath this stuff. Every day, I make sure that I am not only dissecting past market… read more →
By MSNBC and in no particular order: Winners! Property investors Here’s one thing that almost everyone in the real-estate business seems to agree on: 2011 was the year of the investor. With a flood of bank-owned properties on the market and prices rolled back to 2003 levels, investors who had cash or access to credit… read more →
Sponsored by My1stHomeRebate.com and MyRentRebate.com and A recent article in the Wall Street Journal details the advantages of owning vs. renting a home in several major metropolitan cites. Nick Timiraos states, “Home prices and mortgage rates have fallen so far that the monthly cost of owning a home is more affordable than at any point… read more →
At least that is what you would smell like when getting out of the water today, however; if all goes according to plan, you’ll be able eat at the bottom of the harbor floor…sort of. Before the idea of the Harborplace was ever conceived, Baltimore’s Inner Harbor was a working harbor. In the 60’s the harbor gave way to… read more →
Nov 21, 2011 3:08 PM, By Susan Piperato, Managing Editor Reprinted article from National Real Estate Investor Redevelopment and rental professionals like the Chicago-based Mack Companies, which turns foreclosed homes into quality single-family rentals, are seeing significant growth—so much so that the federal government is looking at this sector of the housing industry for… read more →
Below is a portion of a Howard County Times article by Lindsey MacPhearson: “The Howard County Council passed a bill Monday night that creates a temporary property tax credit for residences built to certain environmental standards.The council also approved legislation making gender identity a protected classification under the county’s anti-discrimination law; allowing police to impound… read more →
Local Washington D.C. October housing numbers show that listing inventory has dropped a bit over 13%, median prices have gone down 1.4% and employment numbers are steady at 6%. Couple that with area rents are going up, climbing 3.7 percent for the past 12 averaging $1,708 a month in 2011. Local landlords have raised rents… read more →
Homesdatabase.com, the consumer site for MRIS now has a search feature in which you can search for properties based upon features that are important to you and your family using such criteria that you won’t see on normal search engines. “Typically, consumers are confined to searching by the home features such as room count and type, square… read more →
From Builderonline.com Article by Boyce Thompson Twice annually, Builder works with Hanley Wood Market Intelligence to compile a list of the healthiest housing markets in the United States, based on forward projections for the metrics that drive housing production–jobs, price appreciation, population growth, and income growth. The projections come from Moody’s Economy.com … read more →