20 May 2012
Flood Insurance provided by the National Flood Insurance Program got a 30 day extension on Thursday, May 17th only 16 days before it was set to expire at the end of the month. The House of Representatives passed an extension of the Flood Insurance Program until June 30th and moved the pressure off to the [...]
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19 May 2012
Although it should come as no surprise, recent reports indicate that those aged between seventeen and thirty-one will largely dictate the future of the housing market. In 2011, the group accounted for roughly thirty percent of home purchases. Economists believe that number must rise for the residential real estate market to show a sustained improvement [...]
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19 May 2012
As the summer months approach, the residential real estate market is usually in full swing. More often than not, new homebuyers make up a solid portion of those shopping for properties. This year, however, there is a sense of unpredictability surrounding the market. With that said, many economists are questioning as how to first-time homebuyers [...]
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19 May 2012
An alleged Real Estate Investment scam was discovered by the SEC and have since charged David Connolly of Watchung, New Jersey. The SEC alleges that Mr. Connolly operated a phony scheme that duped clients into more than $2 million of real estate investment shares. Mr. Connolly operated Connolly Properties Inc. which was suppose to supply [...]
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18 May 2012
All across the state of California, the residential real estate market is picking up steam and showing strength. Both the median sales price, and the total number of sales increased from where they were one year ago. Residential property prices in California jumped six percent in April. The improvement is certainly good news, as the [...]
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18 May 2012
While the director of the Federal Housing Financing Agency continues to remain under fire for refusing to allow for principal reductions for underwater mortgages with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Many banks and lenders have already allowed for principal reductions for their borrowers, the two embattled agencies have been forbidden to do so. Some officials [...]
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17 May 2012
Signs continue to point to recovery for the United States housing market. As construction on new homes increased in April, the overall residential real estate market continued to grow in strength. Builder confidence is the highest its been since mid-2007. The number of housing starts jumped up nearly three percent in April after increasing again [...]
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17 May 2012
While the housing market in the United States is finally starting to show signs of positive growth, the overall market in the United Kingdom is collapsing under the people’s feet. A panel of real estate market experts just recent published a report analyzing the housing market in the United Kingdom. Their report was not at [...]
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16 May 2012
While Toronto and Vancouver have received all of the attention as of late, neither one is expected to be the nation’s strongest housing market in the next year. Instead, Calgary will likely take that title. Calgary was at one point the hottest residential real estate market in Canada. However, it lost that distinction in 2008 [...]
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16 May 2012
Over the last few years, the word recovery has been thrown around a bit too often. Analysts and economists alike have said many times that they believe the residential real estate market looks as if it is finally improving, only for the market to slip and decline even further in the following months. With that [...]
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Real Estate Investment Scam Discovered: SEC Charges NJ Man 
Christakis Shiamili and the Real Estate group Real Estate Investment Scam Discovered: SEC Charges NJ Man 
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