August 2012 Blog Posts (84)

In Pinellas County Florida during July foreclosure filings were up 80% from this time last year. Obviously there’s a back log ready to hit the market however since Florida takes about 700 days from start to finish on a foreclosure; properties are expected to drip onto the market.  Currently there are just over 300 in the entire county. (…

PARK SMART - Indy and Broad Ripple

The Indianapolis and Broad Ripple area now have over 1300 parking spaces with sensors connected to a parking app you can download on your smart phone.  The app is called "Parker" and provides real-time info to guide you to open and available parking spaces.  There is even…

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Professional photography of a home can nab buyers’ attention online, and some home sellers are even crediting the fancy photos of their homes at getting their homes sold, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. 

According to research from the National Association of REALTORS®, 98% of…

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A study by Florida REALTORS® indicates that buyers from outside the country still favor the state when it comes to residential real estate. Foreigners are responsible for a fifth of Florida home sales.

Latin American and Caribbean buyers accounted for 35 percent of all foreign purchases in Florida, followed by…

Bidding wars are increasingly being reported across the country as buyer demand increases and home inventories shrink. Those market conditions drive multiple offers in many areas, but real estate agents and other housing followers say sellers still can take practical steps to boost the level of…

During the second quarter, nearly one million home owners were able to emerge from being “underwater” on their mortgage due to rising prices, according to a new report by Zillow. 

Home owners who owe more on their home than it is currently worth dropped to 30.9 percent in the…

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I was trying to put a few my office listings at Glozal and was surprised that I have to pay for that. I know nothing in this life for free, but would Glozal rather first get more listings, improve their PR (page ranking) rating with Google and then ask for money like Realtown, Activerain, etc? Why does PR matter? I want to post my blogs on a web site with a higher PR on Google, then I would have more chances that my link or blog would get into first page. In this case the PR of Glozal is the…

Are some housing markets still suffering from the blues? Trulia’s Housing Misery Index takes into account the percentage of change in home prices from a state’s peak during the last decade compared to today as well as the percentage of mortgages that are either severely delinquent or in foreclosure. 

While the housing market continues to pick up across the country, some housing markets still rank high on Trulia’s Housing Misery Index. The top four…

Fewer first-time home buyers are jumping into the housing market nowadays, accounting for 34 percent of all buyers in July. While that percentage has inched up slightly as of late, it still remains far from the 40 percent levels first-time home buyers generally…

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Announcing a fantastic Naples waterfront luxury property and offering some details on the property. An outstanding waterfront property has recently gone up for market in The Mooring community. This estate, over 7600 feet of prime waterfront real estate offers a stunning view directly into the heart of Inner Doctors Bay. The waterfront footage is outfitted for an…

Investors increasingly are eyeing college towns to snag properties at discounts and turn them into rental properties that could potentially offer steady cash flow with student tenants. But which college towns offer some of the best returns? 

Realtor.com recently released its second annual list of the…

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