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Real Estate Outlook: Federal Reserve Beige Book
If you're trying to figure out where real estate is headed in the coming months, should you listen to the Federal Reserve -- or do you focus on the latest pending home sales numbers? FULL STORY->
Pre-Qualifying for a Mortgage
One of the first steps to take as a potential home buyer is to get pre-qualified for a loan. This step helps both you and your lender learn just how much home you can afford. And you should begin this process before you even start looking for a home. FULL STORY->
What to Say (or not say) to Gracefully Decline the Monkey
Here are some tips for showing your client the respect of letting him keep his Monkey (i.e. solving his own problem or dilemma). It's really all in what you say, or don't say, as the case may be. FULL STORY->
Keys to Representing a Buyer
The Buyer's Agent is responsible for crafting, presenting, writing a proper contract for, and prompting acceptance of a good offer. Follow these steps: FULL STORY->
Low Rates Help Make Home Buying More Affordable
Freddie Mac today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey in which the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.97 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending March 4, 2010, down from last week when it averaged 5.05 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 5.15 percent. FULL STORY->
More Incentives To Buy Home: Fannie Mae Offers Money for Closing Costs and Appliances
Fannie Mae wants to sell its housing inventory that it acquired through foreclosures. The properties are listed for sale on HomePath.com. To do so, it's offering buyers incentives for those properties FULL STORY->
Low Rates Help Make Home Buying More Affordable
Freddie Mac today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey in which the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.97 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending March 4, 2010, down from last week when it averaged 5.05 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 5.15 percent. FULL STORY->
Keys to Representing a Buyer
The Buyer's Agent is responsible for crafting, presenting, writing a proper contract for, and prompting acceptance of a good offer. Follow these steps: FULL STORY->
More Incentives To Buy Home: Fannie Mae Offers Money for Closing Costs and Appliances
Fannie Mae wants to sell its housing inventory that it acquired through foreclosures. The properties are listed for sale on HomePath.com. To do so, it's offering buyers incentives for those properties FULL STORY->
NAR Commercial A Leading Voice for the Industry, The Market, and the Investor
Peter L. Mosca shares an excerpt of a radio show interview conducted on Income Property Investment Talk dot com, with Blaine Walker, 2010 Chairman of the National Association of Realtors Commercial Division and Chere LaRose-Senne, Managing Director of Commercial Member Services. FULL STORY->
Relationship Selling Begins With Databased Marketing
The name of the game is not just Internet marketing, it is relationship building. Marketing is what gets them to the sales center. Selling is a process and it takes time, sometimes many months. FULL STORY->
Feds Help Speed Up Your Mortgage Modification
The latest spin on government-sponsored mortgage modifications, demands that home owners provide an initial package of documents before the first phase of a modification can begin. FULL STORY->
Carrot or Stick Rules
Many rules enacted by homeowner association boards tend to use the Stick Method for rules which assumes folks need to be beaten to comply. The Carrot Method coaxes people into compliance by using guidelines that are reasonable and equitable. Guess which method works better to harmonize an HOA? FULL STORY->
Future Architects Design Sustainabale Architecture
Whether you are a believer in the GREEN movement or not, designing buildings that use strategies aimed at improving the performance of metrics that matter most: water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction and energy savings makes sense. The last two years have been a wake-up call for not only Americans but for citizens of the world. We have all been faced with the rising cost of the natural resources we use every day and have come to understand the wisdom of conservation. FULL STORY->
Editorial: Banks Are Looking For More Bailouts
The bankers are once again attempting to tilt the system in their favor by trying to turn Florida into a “non-judicial” foreclosure state. FULL STORY->
Quick and Easy Interior Design for Home Sellers
Home buyers and home sellers have the same goal: an exchange of property. Buyers want to pay as little as possible for the nicest house they can afford; sellers want to earn as much as possible on their property. They may seem like conflicting interests, but they aren't. Buyers and sellers goals, at bottom, are both about making a fair trade. FULL STORY->
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Updated: March 8, 2010Real Estate Outlook: Federal Reserve Beige Book
If you're trying to figure out where real estate is headed in the coming months, should you listen to the Federal Reserve -- or do you focus on the latest pending home sales numbers? FULL STORY->
Pre-Qualifying for a Mortgage
One of the first steps to take as a potential home buyer is to get pre-qualified for a loan. This step helps both you and your lender learn just how much home you can afford. And you should begin this process before you even start looking for a home. FULL STORY->
What to Say (or not say) to Gracefully Decline the Monkey
Here are some tips for showing your client the respect of letting him keep his Monkey (i.e. solving his own problem or dilemma). It's really all in what you say, or don't say, as the case may be. FULL STORY->
Keys to Representing a Buyer
The Buyer's Agent is responsible for crafting, presenting, writing a proper contract for, and prompting acceptance of a good offer. Follow these steps: FULL STORY->
Low Rates Help Make Home Buying More Affordable
Freddie Mac today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey in which the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.97 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending March 4, 2010, down from last week when it averaged 5.05 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 5.15 percent. FULL STORY->
More Incentives To Buy Home: Fannie Mae Offers Money for Closing Costs and Appliances
Fannie Mae wants to sell its housing inventory that it acquired through foreclosures. The properties are listed for sale on HomePath.com. To do so, it's offering buyers incentives for those properties FULL STORY->
Low Rates Help Make Home Buying More Affordable
Freddie Mac today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey in which the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 4.97 percent with an average 0.7 point for the week ending March 4, 2010, down from last week when it averaged 5.05 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 5.15 percent. FULL STORY->
Keys to Representing a Buyer
The Buyer's Agent is responsible for crafting, presenting, writing a proper contract for, and prompting acceptance of a good offer. Follow these steps: FULL STORY->
More Incentives To Buy Home: Fannie Mae Offers Money for Closing Costs and Appliances
Fannie Mae wants to sell its housing inventory that it acquired through foreclosures. The properties are listed for sale on HomePath.com. To do so, it's offering buyers incentives for those properties FULL STORY->
NAR Commercial A Leading Voice for the Industry, The Market, and the Investor
Peter L. Mosca shares an excerpt of a radio show interview conducted on Income Property Investment Talk dot com, with Blaine Walker, 2010 Chairman of the National Association of Realtors Commercial Division and Chere LaRose-Senne, Managing Director of Commercial Member Services. FULL STORY->
Relationship Selling Begins With Databased Marketing
The name of the game is not just Internet marketing, it is relationship building. Marketing is what gets them to the sales center. Selling is a process and it takes time, sometimes many months. FULL STORY->
Feds Help Speed Up Your Mortgage Modification
The latest spin on government-sponsored mortgage modifications, demands that home owners provide an initial package of documents before the first phase of a modification can begin. FULL STORY->
Carrot or Stick Rules
Many rules enacted by homeowner association boards tend to use the Stick Method for rules which assumes folks need to be beaten to comply. The Carrot Method coaxes people into compliance by using guidelines that are reasonable and equitable. Guess which method works better to harmonize an HOA? FULL STORY->
Future Architects Design Sustainabale Architecture
Whether you are a believer in the GREEN movement or not, designing buildings that use strategies aimed at improving the performance of metrics that matter most: water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction and energy savings makes sense. The last two years have been a wake-up call for not only Americans but for citizens of the world. We have all been faced with the rising cost of the natural resources we use every day and have come to understand the wisdom of conservation. FULL STORY->
Editorial: Banks Are Looking For More Bailouts
The bankers are once again attempting to tilt the system in their favor by trying to turn Florida into a “non-judicial” foreclosure state. FULL STORY->
Quick and Easy Interior Design for Home Sellers
Home buyers and home sellers have the same goal: an exchange of property. Buyers want to pay as little as possible for the nicest house they can afford; sellers want to earn as much as possible on their property. They may seem like conflicting interests, but they aren't. Buyers and sellers goals, at bottom, are both about making a fair trade. FULL STORY->
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