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  • Top home buyer preference? Walkable communities
    Tom Kelly | April 6, 2011 9:48 am
    Approximately 77 percent of respondents to a new home-buying survey said they would look for neighborhoods with abundant sidewalks and other pedestrian-friendly features over neighborhoods…
  • Sellers generating more building inspections
    Sellers generating more building inspections
    Tom Kelly | April 4, 2011 2:09 pm
    The practice of a seller purchasing an inspection report before advertising the home for sale not only is becoming more common in primary residences but…
  • Court shutters telemarketers peddling bogus timeshare resales
    Court shutters telemarketers peddling bogus timeshare resales
    Tom Kelly | April 4, 2011 9:40 am
    A federal district court has issued a temporary restraining order against a Florida-based telemarketing scheme that allegedly tricked timeshare owners who sought to sell their…
  • Zillow rolls out app for BlackBerry
    Zillow rolls out app for BlackBerry
    Tom Kelly | April 4, 2011 9:32 am
    Seattle-based Zillow, an online real estate marketplace, announced its launch of the Zillow BlackBerry app last weekend at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.
  • Interest rates tick higher for second straight week
    Interest rates tick higher for second straight week
    Tom Kelly | April 1, 2011 9:13 am
    Mortgage interest rates rose slightly for the second week in a row with 30-year, fixed-rate loans sitting at 4.86 percent, according to Freddie Mac's weekly…
  • Proposed new rule could penalize low-down payment borrowers
    Proposed new rule could penalize low-down payment borrowers
    Tom Kelly | March 31, 2011 12:03 pm
    The new risk retention requirements mandated by Congress in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act contain a number of provisions intended to…
  • Shadow inventory shows slight improvement
    Shadow inventory shows slight improvement
    Tom Kelly | March 31, 2011 11:47 am
    A company that tracks residential "shadow" inventory reported a slight decline in January compared with the same month a year ago.
  • Cash buyers keep second home sales steady
    Cash buyers keep second home sales steady
    Tom Kelly | March 31, 2011 11:44 am
    The market share of vacation and investment-home sales held steady in 2010, although the sales volume declined with the overall market, according to the National…

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