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By Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Verani Realty, Good to Know
(BHHS Verani Realty)
  Schedule a Showing/Request Info Portsmouth, NH Real Estate Dover, NH Real Estate Rochester, NH Real Estate Rye, NH Real Estate New Castle, NH Real Estate Greenland, NH Real Estate   Prudential Verani Realty Portsmouth Prudential Verani Realty Portsmouth 888-723-0306 webrequest@verani.com   Information valid for the date of this posting only. Please contact us for the most current information and status of this property. 112 HIGHLAND STREET Portsmouth, NH Scan with your smartphone & take me with you. Description Features Photos Maps & Local Schools     Little Harbor district offers this lovely $ Click for current price | 5 BEDROOMS | 3 BATHROOMS (2 full / 1 half) | 3000 Square Feet   Little Harbor district offers this lovely 1900 Victorian home which marries antiquity with contemporar...
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By Jim Lee, REALTOR, CRS, ABR, Buying or Selling? Ann & Jim are the local experts
(RE/MAX Shoreline)
I find it fun to explore hidden and little used roads, trails, and byways I come across. One cool road that has a lot to offer but gets very little use is Little Harbor Road near our home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.   Turn off Sagamore Avenue just past the South Street Cemetery onto Little Harbor Road, it’s only about a mile to the dead end but it’s a beautiful walk or run through the little used, wooded road. First turn along the way is Currier Lane, a short little cul de sac with about 8 fairly modern homes. Continuing along Little Harbor Road you next come to Little Harbor Chapel on your left. Founded in 1902, the Chapel is an undemonimational church that has services only during the summer months of July and August. This beautiful little church in the woods is also available for w...
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By Jim Lee, REALTOR, CRS, ABR, Buying or Selling? Ann & Jim are the local experts
(RE/MAX Shoreline)
The first 3 months of 2011 are well past and in the record books now so we can start to get a picture of what the Portsmouth area real estate market looks like this year. The following graph is a comparison of the first quarters of each year for the past 10 years.   You can compare the above numbers to the current (as of 4/11/11) number of 155 active listings for single family homes and condos in Portsmouth. We’re starting to see an uptick in both the numbers of sold listings as well as the number of pendings (under agreement but not closed) as well as a decrease in the numbers of new listings coming on the market.   Another valuable piece of sales data to determine the current state of the Portsmouth real estate market is the absorption rate, that is, how long does it take a listing to...
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Robert (Vegas Bob) Swetz purchased some property in the South West around 4 years ago and used Orchard Investment Inc. for his lender. At the time I purchased the property there were not many Lenders that would finance for this type of property. Vegas Bob has contacted Orchard Investment Inc. several times trying to get the interest rate down to a more realilistic percentage, but the GREED of Orchard Investment Inc. has refused to help Vegas Bob. For anyone reading this post & story my suggestion would be to stay away from Orchard Investment Inc., just another crooked Lender taking peoples money ...   Robert (Vegas Bob) Swetz  4-24-2011   Orchard Investment Inc in Portsmouth, NH | 325 Corporate Dr ... Orchard Investment Inc in Portsmouth, NH -- Map, Phone Number, Reviews, Photos and Vid...
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By Marty Patrizi, Multiply Your Propertunities
(The Bean Group)
Portsmouth NH Real Estate  Homes sold week ending April 16, 2011 are as follows:            Condo $160,000        $310,000               $350,000            $430,000 Portsmouth NH Real Estate  Current inventory is 297 homes and condos listed for a total of $132,615,720.  39 homes have accepted offers and are working towards closing, 7 were withdrawn from the market, and 22 new listings came to market this week.  Average days on market for active listings is 208 days but the average days on market for sold listings was only 101.  Looks like the sold listings may have been priced better.  The asking price to selling price ratio was 94%. Down payments are as low as 3.5% and interest rates are hovering around 4.75% this week.  Most "deals" in Portsmouth occur because the demand is there and...
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By Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Verani Realty, Good to Know
(BHHS Verani Realty)
  Schedule a Showing/Request Info   Prudential Verani Realty Portsmouth Prudential Verani Realty Portsmouth 888-723-0306 webrequest@verani.com   Information valid for the date of this posting only. Please contact us for the most current information and status of this property. 516 Springbrook Circle Portsmouth, NH Scan with yoursmartphone& take mewith you. Description Features Photos Maps & Local Schools   Click to see more photos Original owner since pre-built. Never lived $ Click for current price | 2 BEDROOMS | 2 BATHROOMS | 1071 Square Feet | Mls # 4047444   Original owner since pre-built. Never lived in condo full time. On Golden Pond with water frontage from living room and bedroom. New windows, new carpet in living room, bedroom, new ceramic tile in kitchen and bath, new Hunter ...
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By Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Verani Realty, Good to Know
(BHHS Verani Realty)
  Schedule a Showing/Request Info   Prudential Verani Realty Portsmouth Prudential Verani Realty Portsmouth 888-723-0306 webrequest@verani.com   Information valid for the date of this posting only. Please contact us for the most current information and status of this property. 267 CATE STREET Portsmouth, NH Scan with yoursmartphone& take mewith you. Description Features Photos Maps & Local Schools   Click to see more photos The Main House at 267 has $ Click for current price | 1516 Square Feet | Mls # 4047477   The Main House at 267 has been extensively renovated. New floors, two new baths with laundry on first floors,roof 4 yrs old, furnace, gas hot water 8 yrs old, new windows. New interior paint. Walk out basement, deck. Cottage work has started and waiting for you to put your perso...
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By Marty Patrizi, Multiply Your Propertunities
(The Bean Group)
Portsmouth NH Real Estate  Fourteen homes sold this week ending April 2, 2011.  Here is a look at the break down.     Portsmouth NH Condos                 $162,654              $173,000              $185,000               $245,500           $344,000             $389,000              $668,850 Portsmouth NH Homes          $190,000                $219,000           $240,000        $245,000       $415,000                $980,000            $1,070,000 Portsmouth NH Real Estate is selling.  There are 161 homes and condos actively seeking buyers and 11 new listings came to market this week.  Overall with fourteen sold that means inventory is reduced by three properties.  If you are looking to purchase Portsmouth NH Real Estate, you better grab a realtor and get shopping. Historically there has...
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  Schedule a Showing/Request Info Portsmouth, NH Real Estate Dover, NH Real Estate Rochester, NH Real Estate Rye, NH Real Estate New Castle, NH Real Estate Greenland, NH Real Estate   Prudential Verani Realty Portsmouth Prudential Verani Realty Portsmouth 888-723-0306 webrequest@verani.com   Information valid for the date of this posting only. Please contact us for the most current information and status of this property. 180 Gates Street Portsmouth, NH South End living doesn't get any Scan with your smartphone& take me with you mobile. Description Features Photos Map Walk Score Schools $ Click for current price     see more photos >>    Bedrooms : 3 Bathrooms : 3(2full)(1Partial) Sq Footage : 1828 LotSize : 4792.000141 Mls # : 4035632 South End living doesn`t get any better! This anti...
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By Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Verani Realty, Good to Know
(BHHS Verani Realty)
  Schedule a Showing/Request Info Portsmouth, NH Real Estate Dover, NH Real Estate Rochester, NH Real Estate Rye, NH Real Estate New Castle, NH Real Estate Greenland, NH Real Estate   Prudential Verani Realty Portsmouth Prudential Verani Realty Portsmouth 888-723-0306 webrequest@verani.com   Information valid for the date of this posting only. Please contact us for the most current information and status of this property. 421 Striped Bass Ave Portsmouth, NH Come see this immaculate mobile home Scan with your smartphone& take me with you mobile. Description Features Photos Map Walk Score Schools $ Click for current price     see more photos >>    Bedrooms : 2 Bathrooms : 2(2full) Sq Footage : 1200 Mls # : 4052478   Come see this immaculate mobile home in an equally immaculate and well k...
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By Jim Lee, REALTOR, CRS, ABR, Buying or Selling? Ann & Jim are the local experts
(RE/MAX Shoreline)
Ripped Off! Robbed! Plagiarized! Here's one solution. If that seems too extreme here's a couple of nifty tools you can use to catch crooks who lift your confent, whether it be your photos or words, and then try to pass them off as their own. I just discovered Tineye recently to catch photo crooks. I've been a long time user of CopyScape to track down plagiarizers. Tin Eye works like this:   "TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. TinEye is the first image search engine on the web to use image identification technology rather than keywords, meta data or watermarks. It is free to use for non-commercial searching." TinEye ...
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By Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Verani Realty, Good to Know
(BHHS Verani Realty)
  Schedule a Showing/Request Info   Prudential Verani Realty Portsmouth Prudential Verani Realty Portsmouth 888-723-0306 webrequest@verani.com   Information valid for the date of this posting only. Please contact us for the most current information and status of this property. 267 Cate Street Portsmouth, NH The Main House at 267 has Scan with your smartphone& take me with you mobile. Description Features Photos Map Walk Score Schools $ Click for current price     see more photos >>    Bedrooms : 5 Bathrooms : 3(3full) Sq Footage : 1516 LotSize : 13503.999946 Mls # : 4048317   The Main House at 267 has been extensively renovated. New floors, two new baths with laundry on first floors,roof 4 yrs old, furnace, gas hot water 8 yrs old, new windows. New interior paint. Walk out basement, de...
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Annie's Angels Hosts "The Heavenly Ball" Fundraiser ... March 26th in Portsmouth NH On Saturday March 26th, Annie's Angels will host the third annual Heavenly Ball Fundraiser at the new Portsmouth Harbor Events and Conference Center located at 100 Deer Street in Portsmouth, NH. The festivities will begin at 6:00 PM with a cocktail hour and silent auction with music provided by guitarist Charlie Strater right through the dinner. If you haven't heard of Charlie Strater, you really do need to get out more...seriously. This is one extremely talented musician. Radio station WHEB's personality, JR, will be making the announcements and spinning the disks throughout the evening and you are sure to enjoy this celestial evening. Tickets for The Heavenly Ball Fundraiser are $125.00 per couple and ...
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By Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Verani Realty, Good to Know
(BHHS Verani Realty)
Schedule a Showing/Request Info Portsmouth, NH Real Estate Dover, NH Real Estate Rochester, NH Real Estate Rye, NH Real Estate New Castle, NH Real Estate Greenland, NH Real Estate   Prudential Verani Realty Portsmouth Prudential Verani Realty Portsmouth 888-723-0306 webrequest@verani.com   Information valid for the date of this posting only. Please contact us for the most current information and status of this property. 224-226 Bartlett   Portsmouth, NH Own this great 2 family home Description Features Photos Map Walk Score Schools $ Click for current price     see more photos >>    Bedrooms : 4 Bathrooms : 2(2full) Sq Footage : 1839 LotSize : 6534.000260 Mls # : 4046342 Own this great 2 family home and have someone else help pay your mortgage. Whether you are an investor or a 1st time...
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By Marty Patrizi, Multiply Your Propertunities
(The Bean Group)
Portsmouth NH Real Estate Q1 2010 A little history lesson in Portsmouth NH about the Federal Home Buyer Tax Credit.  From January 1, 2010 to March 21, 2010 while the now expired tax credit was in effect, Portsmouth saw 32 homes sold with an average of 154 days on market and the average selling price was $356,674. Portsmouth NH Real Estate Q1 2011 During the same time period this year, Portsmouth NH has seen 36 homes sold with an average time on the market of 102 days and the average selling price is $332,609.  Did the Tax Credit help? Portsmouth NH Real Estate Outlook 2011 With a 12% increase in the number of homes sold, homes selling 30 days faster, and an average selling price 7% lower, the opportunities for a good deal in Portsmouth NH Real Estate look better than a year ago. Don't B...
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By Jim Lee, REALTOR, CRS, ABR, Buying or Selling? Ann & Jim are the local experts
(RE/MAX Shoreline)
Have you ever seen one of those ideas that was so simple and yet so ingenious it made you mad you hadn't though of it yourself. WorkFlowy is on of those ideas. So simple, so elegant in it's simplicity, and so useful. Here's a video from the developer showing and telling how it works.       I have it right up front on my bookmarks toolbar next to my Google Calendar where I'll be sure to see and use it every day as it is meant to be used. Do yourself a favor and click on over to WorkFlowy.com and take a look; I believe you will see the value right away and start using it in both your business and personal life.  
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The Chase Home for Children Fundraiser at Flatbread Pizza Portsmouth NH March 22nd! Flatbread Company is once again sponsoring a fundraiser for The Chase Home for Children on Tuesday March 22nd from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM at its 138 Congress Street, Portsmouth, NH location.   Here is your opportunity to help support the efforts of Chase Home for Children while discovering the awesome pizza served up Flatbreads style. Expect the ingredients to be local organic produce with free range and clean meats. Flatbreads Company cares about the community by sponsoring fundraising events for local organizations on Tuesdays at each location. If you are looking for a Flatbreads Company near you, they can be found at 10 locations from Portland, Maine to Paia, Hawaii to Whistler, British Columbia. The Chas...
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By Jim Lee, REALTOR, CRS, ABR, Buying or Selling? Ann & Jim are the local experts
(RE/MAX Shoreline)
So now you have a Facebook business/fan page but when you post something on it you always showed up as whatever you named your page if you were an admin and most of us are. Happily Facebook has now made a change and you can post on your business page not only as the name of that page but also as yourself. Here's an example that explains it better. Portsmouth NH Real Estate is our business page. On my personal Facebook page I'm Realtor Jim Lee and my partner is Ann Cummings. Before the change anything either of us posted on out business page appeared there as "PortsmouthNHRealEstate". Now we can either still be PortsmouthNHRealEstate or we can easily switch to our personal profile and post a comment or link there as either Jim Lee or Ann Cummings. This new feature lets you mix up your po...
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CASA of NH Fundraiser at Flatbread Pizza Portsmouth NH March 1st! Flatbread Company is sponsoring a fundraiser for CASA of NH on Tuesday March 1st from 5:00 PM to close at its 138 Congress Street, Portsmouth, NH location.  Here is your opportunity to help support the efforts of CASA of NH (Court Appointed Special Advocates for abused and neglected children) while discovering the awesome pizza served up Flatbreads style. Expect the ingredients to be local organic produce with free range and clean meats. Flatbread Company donates $3.50 from each large pizza and $1.75 from each small pizza directly to CASA of NH. Flatbread Company cares about the community by sponsoring fundraising events for local organizations every Tuesday night at each location. If you are looking for a Flatbreads Pizz...
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By Dick Cook, Seacoast & Lakes Region Specialist
(Coldwell Banker- Peggy Carter Team)
FHA 203(K) Loans Can be The Ideal Solution In a previous article I discussed an overview of the FHA 203(K) Rehab loan program. This loan program is an important tool for buyers looking to purchase a fixer-upper property. Many of these types of homes are available in Portsmouth NH, and they represent an excellent opportunity for someone to acquire an affordable home that can be renovated to meet both their needs and budget. Given the current number of foreclosed properties on the market that have been vacant for some time, along with homes that have not been adequately maintained by owners on the edge of losing their houses, it is customary to see homes that need work done to bring them up to the buyer's standard. As a prospective buyer looking to finance a Portsmouth NH fixer-upper, a f...
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