Category Archives: Selling your Home
California pending home sales rise in September
Source: C.A.R. California pending home sales improved from the previous month and year, however, overall market conditions appear to be slowing down and closed transactions plateauing, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.)...
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Return of house flipping eases housing crunch in some states
Source: Chicago Tribune While house flipping helped fuel the housing crisis a decade ago, industry experts say a current wave of house flipping is helping to ease a shortage of affordable housing in some parts of the country. The...
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California home sales register nominal annual increase in September
Source: C.A.R. California existing home sales ticked up in September on a year-over-year basis for the first time in seven months as a shortage of homes available for sale continues to hold back the market, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®...
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School ratings and real estate
Source: NPR It's well known in the real estate industry that highly rated schools translate into higher housing values. Several studies confirm this and even put a dollar figure on it: an average premium of $50 a square foot, in a 2013 national...
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Why So Many New U.S. Homes Are Supersized A bigger share of new homes sold in 2015 were 4,000 square feet or more compared with before the recession. But that could...
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Summer housing market not cooling down this fall
Source: Housing Wire The summer housing market saw high demand next to rising home prices, but don’t expect fall to bring any relief. In fact, it could bring the hottest fall in a decade, new data from realtor.com...
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