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“If [prices] go much lower, they will be giving them away,’’ said Matt Tarlin, an investor from Needham who has bought three homes in Athol and nearby Orange, where values are similarly depressed, and houses sell for as low as $20,000. Athol’s real estate decline has been fueled by a glut of for...

Where you live affects who you date—and who will absolutely refuse to date you. In honor of Valentine’s Day, the real estate website Trulia commissioned Harris Interactive to conduct a survey looking at the intersection of attitudes about housing and romance. Are homeowners regarded as “marriage...

Real estate: Economic impact in 2011, expectations for 2012 On February 13, 2012 · In Finance Email0   By Yinka KolawoleNigeria’s economy slowed down marginally in 2011 with real GDP falling to 7.4% in the third quarter of the year compared to 7.7% in the corresponding quarter of 2010. Inflation...

A lot of hoopla recently surrounded the Obama administration’s proposal to enable a segment of homeowners who owe more on their homes than they are worth to refinance at today’s rock-bottom rates. The limitations are that the homeowners must be current on their loan payments and their mortgages ...

Most buyers have a lavish and grand idea of what they want their perfect house to look like. All too often though, they soon find out that many of their focal points don't match up with the price points. This is when I tell my buyers to look at the big picture. Step back a minute, and take a good...

In past years, becoming a real estate agent was rarely a first-choice gig. For many people, it was a way to pay the bills while trying to break into another field. For some, it was a second career — or maybe a third or a fourth — tackled after the children went off to college, or earlier paths fe...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va., Feb 6, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- In a difficult housing market, buyers and sellers rely upon good, solid real estate counsel to close deals. Many properties in the Virginia real estate market have lost value over the last two years, and sellers are faced with the prosp...

Great article I found from inspectors point of view. Thankfully I found myself in common with the last few types of "agents" she talks about.   Many real estate agents don't attend their buyer's home inspection because someone has told them that this increases their liability.  I completely disag...

Allstate Corp. (ALL), the largest publicly traded U.S. auto insurer, is investing in energy and real estate as near record-low interest rates squeeze income from bonds, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thomas Wilson said. “For insurance companies or long-term investors, obviously, low interes...

I currently have 8 listings in the Shreveport/Bossier areas. 6 of the 8 would be considered investment or rental properties. They are: 7040 and 7044 Amie, 319 Robinson, 6127 Lexington, 6117 Willard, 113/115 E. Herndon. The other single family properties I have listed are 1142 N Kirkwood in the So...