Hat tip to Ann Douglas who sent in these 10 tips: http://blog.doorfly.com/articles/2011/10-tips-for-choosing-the-right-realtor-to-find-a-home/ Here are additional thoughts: 11. Check for experience. An easy way is to look at their license number, which is now on...
A sampling of recent home sales, while rolling down the highway...
Hat tip to osidebuyer for sending this in, from the wsj.com: (here it is Susie!) A Russian billionaire investor paid $100 million for a French chateau-style mansion in Silicon Valley, marking the highest known price paid for a single-family home in the U.S. The...
This was emailed in yesterday: Hi Jim, I have been looking for my first house with the help from a traditional real estate broker and a Redfin agent for a few months. However, I haven't found my dream house yet. Am I too picky or maybe I look at the wrong...
A question not asked in this video with Ted Lange, a reverse-mortgage specialist for Wells Fargo: Does the loan balance go up? Answer: Yes, the interest payments are tacked on, based on today's 30-year fixed rate (which is 5.06%):
From Yahoo! Finance: Five years after the housing market peaked, conditions are not improving in most areas. The latest data shows housing prices are still down and housing sales are sluggish. New home sales hit a record low in February and the S&P/Case-Shiller...
Villa Mayana was designed by architect Enrique Barascout and is located near Hermosa Beach in Costa Rica. The main entrance features a covered walkway over a 2,000 square foot reflecting pool of black volcanic candistone. "Construction followed a deliberate theme of...
From the sddt.com: Developers and construction officials are seeing signs of what could be the next trend in San Diego’s construction: multifamily housing. The county of San Diego reported 541 multifamily permits were pulled in February, the most in any month since...
From Alejandro Laso at the latimes.com: Major banks may be forced to let severely delinquent homeowners sell their houses for less than the loan amounts owed as part of a broad settlement of federal and state investigations into botched foreclosure paperwork,...
