homes

How Hanging Ceiling Fans Resurrected My Real Estate Career

by Marty Boardman | March 24, 2011

Who could possibly feel sorry for me? After all, I drove a $100,000 Mercedes Benz. I belonged to the Phoenix Country Club. I wore an expensive Rolex watch and dressed in hundred dollar Tommy Bahama silk shirts. I dined at restaurants like Mastro’s Steakhouse without ever bothering to look at the prices on the menu. [...]

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Commentary

Do Valuations Continue to Slide for Years? What’s The Answer?

by Tom Koziol | May 30, 2008

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Economy

2008-Year of The Implosion?

by Charles Feldman | January 2, 2008

Nothing like kicking off the new year on a positive note. And, I can assure you, what you are about to read is anything but “positive.” In fact, when it comes to the ever expanding subprime mortgage fiasco,the fun, say some experts, is only about to begin. Before 2008 slips into 2009, some 1.8 million [...]

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Real Estate Law

Buying New Construction? Don’t let those builders push you around!!

by Joshua M. Marks, Esq. | October 29, 2007

From the concrete streets of metropolitan cities to the sprawling suburbs in most areas around the country, new construction is present in the form of townhouses, condominiums, single homes and the ever-so-popular “over-55 communities.” While many of these properties are esthetically impressive complete with over-sized family rooms, open kitchen areas, and every upgrade/option imaginable, there [...]

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Real Estate Deals

What Falling Prices? Asks San Fran Real Estate Pros, Says Report

by Charles Feldman | October 30, 2006

Okay…it was bound to happen. After all that bad news about falling prices in the real estate sector, along comes some real estate professionals in San Francisco to say–hey, not here, buddy!–We’re Okay. According to North Gate News Online (UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism)-some of the experts in SF insist the dismal housing prices [...]

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Economy

Boomers Have BiggerPockets For Real Estate-New Study Says

by Charles Feldman | October 21, 2006

If you are a boomer born between 1946 and 1964, there is a pretty good chance, says a new study, that you own a chunk of real estate. In fact, says the Harris Interactive survey sponsered by the National Association of Realtors, some 78 million Americans born between ’46 and ’64 now have real estate [...]

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Blogs

New York Times Blog “The Walk Through” Shuts Down

by Joshua Dorkin | September 12, 2006

After recently launching two new real estate pages to their site, Great Homes and The Home Finance Center, the New York Times announced yesterday that they would no longer be operating their real estate blog. Apparently the NY Times couldn’t focus on all three areas of their site at one: As you may have noticed, [...]

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Real Estate Market

Can Internet Behavior Predict the Real Estate Market?

by Joshua Dorkin | August 25, 2006

Andy Beal over at WebProNews points to a chart that the Bill Tancer at HitWise constructed that predicts an announcement that existing home sales dropped in July by the National Association of Realtors. Tancer “superimposed the monthly data from the NAR on a Hitwise search term volume chart for the search query “homes for sale.”” [...]

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