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Should I Renovate My Home Before I Sell It? [toc] Some Highlights In today’s hyper-competitive market, buyers are often willing to overlook cosmetic or minor repair needs if it means snagging a home in their price range. With so few houses available for sale today, you may be able to skip the […]
How do you keep your listed home show ready during the busy holiday season? [toc] The holidays can provide motivated buyers for your house and less competition from other sellers. You can also create warm, inviting staging for your home if you don’t overdo it. The conventional wisdom on selling your home may tell […]
Updated: January 11, 2019 Asbestos Risks in the Home Buyers and homeowners should be aware that homes built before 1980 may contain older, toxic forms of construction such as asbestos. Naturally we all hope and expect that a home is built with safe products, but that is not always the case. The use of asbestos […]
South Florida “Subprime” Mortgage Market – the area has much at stake in the furor over the quality of its so-called “subprime” mortgages. How do South Florida’s numbers compare to the national average and other areas of the country? The latest twist – were half of the subprime borrowers ripped off? Did they actually qualify […]
Even before Goodman Griffin and his girlfriend began house-hunting a month ago, they sat down with a mortgage broker and were pre-qualified for the nontraditional loan they needed to purchase the kind of home they wanted. So it came as a shock when the loan they thought they had was yanked away from them this […]
Overall mortgage application volume increased last week despite mixed movement in interest rates, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported today. The market composite index, a measure of home loan application volume, gained 2.8 percent last week, rising to 690.5 on a seasonally adjusted basis from 671.6 one week earlier. The index that tracks refinancings posted the […]
The National Association of Realtors is offering sample contracts that are designed to enhance copyright protection for property information created and collected by its members. The documents include sample agreements between multiple listing services and participants, brokers and agents, and MLSs with vendors and other third parties. John Rees, a lawyer who worked with the […]
Jenn Vest made what she thought was a fair offer on a house in Broward County, but the seller rejected it and wasn’t much in the mood to haggle. The same thing happened on another property. Vest later found a two-bedroom house in an eclectic neighborhood near downtown Fort Lauderdale. Originally listed at about $550,000, […]
A Dallas-based real estate developer has acquired Office Depot’s sprawling Delray Beach headquarters for $80 million. Lincoln Property Co. sealed its deal for the three-building, 43-acre campus – on Congress Avenue just south of Linton Boulevard – on Dec. 22. Office Depot will lease back its 566,852-square-foot headquarters until the end of 2008, when its […]
“… There will eventually be dramatic differences in the assessed values of identically valued homes.” “… Property-tax payments will be effectively shifted from homestead properties that have not been sold recently to properties recently sold and to non-homestead properties such as businesses and rental units.” “Over time, the changes may work to limit (economic) growth, […]
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