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Homeowners Lacking on Policy Information
Daily Insurer | August 18th 2008 by davet.
In a recent study performed by HomeInsurance.com, it was found that 54 percent of all homeowners surveyed admitted to know, "not much at all" about their home insurance policies."The reason people need to understand their homeowners insurance is beca read more
Home Insurance Rates
247QuoteUS | August 16th 2008
If you are purchasing a new home you need to consider the homeowners insurance cost as part as the budget you need for your house. We have a page to help you compare homeowners insurance plans and rates. This page explains the various types of homeow read more
Detroit Home Sells For One Dollar
Boom2Bust.com | August 14th 2008 by Christopher E. Hill
From FOXBusiness.com yesterday: In what might be considered a new low for the housing market, a home in Detroit sold for $1. The home, located at 8111 Traverse Street, close to the Detroit City Airport, was foreclosed upon last summer, after it was p read more
The global credit crunch
Samson Dada’s blog and exclusive anthology of: Fictional a… | August 14th 2008
A year on after the global credit crunch, which has left millions scratching their heads, just what is the credit crunch and how did it start? In America, prospective homeowners were offered cheap mortgages at low interest rates to enable them to p read more
Nothing Good About Latest Zillow Housing Report
Boom2Bust.com | August 12th 2008 by Christopher E. Hill
The Zillow Q2 Real Estate Report is out, and there wasn’t much in the way of good news to be found from the online real estate service. Bloomberg’s Bob Ivry sifted through the data and wrote today: Almost one-third of U.S. homeowners who bought i read more
Five smart tips for home buyers
Dreamcatcher Online Event Calendars - Real Estate | August 12th 2008 by Claudia duPreez
1) Get pre-approved for a mortgage before you make an offer. When you are trying to buy a house in a competitive market, your offer to purchase should contain as few conditions as possible. An offer that is conditional on obtaining financing is often read more
Take Home Staging to the Extreme
Dreamcatcher Online Event Calendars - Real Estate | August 8th 2008 by Claudia duPreez
The concept of staging has been around for years, but it’s no longer an industry secret, thanks in part to TV shows like HGTV’s Designed to Sell and Get It Sold. Simply put, staging is the act of improving and preparing a home so it app read more
U.S. Homeowners In Denial Over Falling Home Prices
Boom2Bust.com | August 8th 2008 by Christopher E. Hill
Come with me and you’ll be in a world of pure imagination. Take a look and you’ll see into your imagination. We’ll begin with a spin traveling in the world of my creation. What we’ll see will defy explanation. -Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder), “P read more
Zillow Finds Homeowners Confident in Own Home Value
Realty Tribune - Real Estate and Housing Market Review | August 7th 2008 by AP
Forget the phrase “Not in my backyard.” These days, homeowners are thinking “Not my house!” That, at least, is the sentiment revealed in a survey from the real-estate data company Zillow.com, which each quarter conducts a surv read more
Get Web Savvy to Sell Your Home
Dreamcatcher Online Event Calendars - Real Estate | August 7th 2008 by Claudia duPreez
Web sites like eBay, DomuSwap.com and Pad4Pad.com offer alternative methods to sell your home. Almost 80 percent of home searches start on the internet, so why not finish them there too? In lieu of the traditional method of selling through a real est read more
Everywhere But Here
Silicon Valley Real Estate | August 7th 2008 by Marcy Moyer
All across the country home values have been free-falling. It's a matter highly covered by the media, and something many people have experienced first hand. But an article in the San Francisco Chronicle written by James Temple says that most homeowne read more
Creative Financing Options to Sell Your Home
Dreamcatcher Online Event Calendars - Real Estate | August 6th 2008 by Claudia duPreez
Frustrated sellers and hard-to-qualify buyers need to work together on financing to overcome the tough market. It’s not easy to sell your home these days, but it’s not all that easy to buy, either. Here’s the problem in a nutshell: read more
Fact Sheet: FHA to Provide Additional Mortgage Assistance to Stru…
New York Paralegal Blog | August 5th 2008 by Joel
The President has signed into law legislation that will allow HUD's Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to continue providing targeted mortgage assistance to homeowners. The Hope for Homeowners program will continue FHA's existing and successful eff read more
Michael Aguirre: San Diego a Foreclosure Sanctuary?
Carlsbad, Encinitas and San Diego Luxury Real Estate | August 4th 2008 by Roberta Murphy
by Roberta Murphy I maintain a few Google Alerts, and one of them is for embattled San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre and his positively stupid amazing idea of turning San Diego into a Foreclosure Sanctuary. He intends to stop foreclosures in Sa read more
Housing Lenders Fear Bigger Wave of Loan Defaults
Great contains articles from the back issues of magazines, j… | August 4th 2008 by Articlesmodern.com
By VIKAS BAJAJ : The first wave of Americans to default on their home mortgages appears to be cresting, but a second, far larger one is quickly building. Homeowners with good credit are falling behind on their payments in growing numbers, even as the read more
Housing measure called good bandage
ForecloseAlert.com | August 2nd 2008 by Bruce Breger
Chicago Tribune-First-time home buyers have a better shot at the American dream and strapped homeowners may be able to stave off financial ruin under a lengthy set of measures signed into law by President Bush on Wednesday. But there are plenty of ca read more
Dreamtowns Offer Refuge From Big Cities
Realty Reality | July 31st 2008
Many homeowner’s surveyed, said that they would prefer to live in a smaller towns. This knowledge is important to buyer’s agents because they may service the special needs of buyers moving from a metropolitan area to rural regions. (G. Scott Thom read more
Escape To… The Land of Wine - California!! Part 4
Dreamcatcher Calendars - Travelogue Blog | July 30th 2008 by Claudia duPreez
DISCOVER CALIFORNIA WINES AND WINERIES: 10) Napa County - At more than 400,000 acres, the Napa Valley AVA encompasses nearly all of the county of Napa and includes 14 AVAs within it. It is also part of the larger North Coast AVA. While Napa Valley p read more
IMF: U.S. Home Prices Up To 20 Percent Overvalued
Boom2Bust.com | July 29th 2008 by Christopher E. Hill
Reuters’ Lesley Wroughton stumbled upon a report by the International Monetary Fund last Friday which predicted more bad times were ahead for the U.S. housing market. Wroughton wrote: The downward spiral of U.S. housing prices still has a way to go read more
Weird Housing Tales, Part 9
Boom2Bust.com | July 29th 2008 by Christopher E. Hill
I was waiting for a story like this one. From the accessAtlanta website last week: Things couldn’t look better three years ago for Milton and Patricia Harper of Lake City, who giddily accepted the keys to a small castle, plus enough money to pay ta read more
Escape To… The Land of Wine - California!! Part 3
Dreamcatcher Calendars - Travelogue Blog | July 26th 2008 by Claudia duPreez
DISCOVER CALIFORNIA WINES AND WINERIES: 8) Monterey and San Benito Counties - Known for the rugged coastal beauty of Big Sur and the charm of Carmel, Monterey is also home to more than 40,000 acres of wine grapes and nine AVAs: Arroyo Seco, Carmel read more
Cleaning Up The House Before Selling
Dreamcatcher Online Event Calendars - Real Estate | July 25th 2008 by Claudia duPreez
Real estate agents always tell you to fix up your house before putting it on the market but some people do more than others. Here’s what Vickie Almond of Virginia Beach, Virginia, did: She cleaned the bricks on the front of her house. There was read more
13 Home-Staging Secrets
Dreamcatcher Online Event Calendars - Real Estate | July 23rd 2008 by Claudia duPreez
Whether you’re designing to sell or designing to dwell, here’s how the home-staging pros get that “I have to have it!” look — and how their tips and tricks can make your own home look like a million bucks. Highlight your h read more
Homeowners, You Don’t Want To Read This
Boom2Bust.com | July 23rd 2008 by Christopher E. Hill
Last Sunday, Kevin Hall from McClatchy Newspapers (the third largest newspaper company in the United States) talked about the direction of the U.S. housing market. He wrote: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson h read more
Woes Afflicting Mortgage Giants Raise Loan Rates
Great contains articles from the back issues of magazines, j… | July 23rd 2008 by Articlesmodern.com
By VIKAS BAJAJ : Mortgage rates are rising because of the troubles at the loan finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, threatening to deal another blow to the faltering housing market. Even as policy makers rushed to support the two companies, hom read more
What to Know Before Buying a Home
Dreamcatcher Online Event Calendars - Real Estate | July 21st 2008 by Claudia duPreez
The experts at the new show “Sleep On It” HGTV - have compiled a list of helpful facts and figures that potential buyers should know before they hit the streets to look for a home. A typical midrange kitchen remodel costs nearly $44,000 and can b read more
Sell Your Home With New-Fangled Advertising
Dreamcatcher Online Event Calendars - Real Estate | July 21st 2008 by Claudia duPreez
Using a Talking House radio transmitter is likened to having a real estate agent in front of your home 24/7. For some sellers, the For Sale sign in the front yard and the ad in the paper aren’t enough. In today’s sluggish market, sellers read more
Quote For The Week
Boom2Bust.com | July 21st 2008 by Christopher E. Hill
The folks who sat on the sidelines, they should feel legitimately annoyed that the more speculative folks who bought homes they couldn’t afford are going to be bailed out or helped by the federal government… And these other folks [who] acted resp read more
Selling home by lottery may be illegal - Some states allow them,…
Dreamcatcher Online Event Calendars - Real Estate | July 20th 2008 by Claudia duPreez
Q: Some time ago, I wrote a letter to you asking your opinion about selling our property in Florida. Since the real estate market is down, I would like to sell it on a “lottery” system. My idea is to sell it with an ad that says: “O read more
Creative Financing Options to Sell Your Home
Dreamcatcher Online Event Calendars - Real Estate | July 19th 2008 by Claudia duPreez
Frustrated sellers and hard-to-qualify buyers need to work together on financing to overcome the tough market. It’s not easy to sell your home these days, but it’s not all that easy to buy, either. Here’s the problem in a nutshell read more
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