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- 11/21/2005 - Real Estate News
Economy rebounds after hurricanes
The U.S. leading index, a key barometer of economic conditions, increased 0.9 percent in October, the Conference Board reported today. The leading index now stands at 137.9. Based on revised data, this index decreased 0.8 percent in September and remai... - 11/21/2005 - Real Estate News
Overnight real estate rates trend lower
Long-term mortgage interest rates continued to fall Friday, and the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond yield rose to 4.49 percent. The 30-year fixed-rate average sank to 5.81 percent, and the 15-year fixed-rate slipped to 5.39 percent. The 1-year adjusta... - 11/21/2005 - Real Estate News
Streamlining real estate transactions all in the family
Drebes says there's no problem working so closely with her husband and son. She said it helps that they have separate offices. "Even at the end of the day we ask each other, 'What happened in your world today?'" she said. To help demarcate work from of... - 11/21/2005 - Real Estate News
Three options available on most mortgages
(This is Part 3 of a seven-part series. See Part 1: Mortgage shopping: what you should know before you begin and Part 2: Pros and cons of fixed, adjustable mortgages.) This is the third article of a series on the decisions mortgage borrowers should make p... - 11/21/2005 - Real Estate News
Pros and cons of home sale dispute arbitration
DEAR BOB: You helped us once before and we hope you can help again. In September, we bought an older house, which had recently been remodeled. It has a flat roof. Our professional home inspector said the roof appeared to have been repaired recently. Durin... - 11/21/2005 - Real Estate News
Overpricing can be risky for real estate sale
Before the torrid real estate market of recent years, a common pricing strategy was to list your home for between 2.5 to 5 percent more than the expected sale price. This way, you would have room to negotiate with the buyer. If you used this approach tod... - 11/21/2005 - Real Estate News
Real estate listings site offers self-serve ads
Just Real Estate Listings, a Web site with free real estate listings, has launched a new self-service advertising module with free advertising to real estate agents and local businesses catering to new-home buyers, the company said today. Advertisers c... - 11/21/2005 - Real Estate News
Bankrate to buy MMIS, FastFind for $40 million
Bankrate has agreed to acquire MMIS/Interest.com and FastFind.com in separate deals worth $40 million, the company said today in separate announcements. MMIS publishes mortgage guides in more than 300 newspapers and operates Interest.com, a We... - 11/21/2005 - Real Estate News
Sotheby's brand expands to Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The Sotheby's International Realty brand is expanding into Dubai and the United Arab Emirates with the appointment of exclusive master franchise rights for those nations. The master franchisee will develop a system of real estate offices in each respec... - 11/21/2005 - Real Estate News
Sink your teeth into vast pool of real estate data
While among the site's users are some very serious real estate professionals who pay for PropertyShark's more comprehensive search features, "It's quite obvious a large chunk of them are simply consumers who don't necessarily pay us anything," Slack s...