Category Archives: real estate

Don’t Underestimate the Importance of Using an Agent When Selling Your Home

When a homeowner decides to sell their house, they obviously want the best possible price with the least amount of hassles. However, for the vast majority of sellers, the most important result is to actually get the home sold. In … Continue reading

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Planning to Buy a Home?

Would you like some tips on Home Buying? Buying can be the start of the best decision you have ever made. However, between finding the right place, securing the loan, and moving in, you are likely going to experience some stress. Buying … Continue reading

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Real Estate Market is Getting Stronger

Whenever there is talk about an improving housing market, some begin to show concern that we may be headed toward another housing bubble that will be followed by a crash similar to the one we saw last decade. Here are … Continue reading

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Nicaragua is bouncing back

Whenever I hear about Nicaragua, I’m always intrigued. I hear so many good things about it from writers and visitors to the country. Anybody I’ve asked about Nicaragua can’t get enough of the country. They love it. Some have moved … Continue reading

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Living in Portugal

Imagine living in a chic, historic European city with a vibrant restaurant scene, a seaside ambience, mild weather, friendly locals, and great (and inexpensive) food and wine. That description fits Porto, Portugal’s second-largest city, to a “T.” And, after spending … Continue reading

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Home sales in the first six months of 2016 increased 4.2 percent

The recently released ATTOM Data Solutions 2016 U.S. Natural Hazard Housing Risk Index found that home sales in the first six months of 2016 increased 4.2 percent from the same time period a year ago in the bottom fifth of … Continue reading

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Residential Construction Spending Up

NAHB analysis of Census Construction Spending data shows that total private residential construction spending for July registered a seasonally adjusted rate of $445.5 billion, slightly up from the June downwardly revised estimate. The monthly gains are largely attributed to the … Continue reading

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What Buyers Need to Know

Buyers come to the house hunting process full of questions, wonder, and often even some level of disbelief in their ability to actually become home owners. The process itself seems overwhelming and full of uncertainty, even in the calmest of … Continue reading

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Deutsche Bank’s fine might be higher than Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s penalty of $2.38 billion

Deutsche Bank AG is nearing an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle a long-running investigation into the sale of residential mortgage-backed securities, Manager Magazin reported. U.S. authorities will send a 100-page statement of facts to Germany’s largest … Continue reading

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The Best Pinterest Group Boards for Real Estate Agents

If you are a real estate agent who has a blog and are not using Pinterest as part of your social media marketing strategy then you are missing the boat! If you ask most real estate bloggers who have adapted … Continue reading

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