Reuters - The leading realty trade group on Wednesday cut its 2007 forecast for U.S. home sales and prices, saying both would slide this year with sales hitting a five-year low.
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Last week I took a young couple out to look at houses in a 3-city area. We were working on determining what areas north of Seattle might be places they??™d like to consider moving to.? To begin our research my clients had picked 6 houses they thought would be interesting to see and in different [...]
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I know from the comments and emails that a lot of people enjoy the occasional SEO tweak and update. My latest change (as of 10 minutes ago) was to replace the words “Home” in the main tab with “Seattle Real Estate” (Thank you Tim for the inspiration!). As [...]
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? By Stephanie AndreRISMEDIA, July 12, 2007??”Today, home buyers in America come in many shapes, sizes and nationalities. In fact, 33% of the U.S. population is non-Caucasian, and by 2050, that number is estimated to increase to half of the country??™s entire population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau
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| Multi-crore scam in real estate unearthed Hindu, India - NEW DELHI: A multi-crore scam in real estate has been unearthed by the Economic Offences Wing of the Delhi police with the arrest of a promoter of Rajshree ... |
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By Glenn HouckRISMEDIA, July 12, 2007??”Real estate is not alone as an industry, in terms of ignoring Internet-based inquiries. This is a problem that plagues nearly every industry that involves salespeople. Both inside and outside sales forces are guilty of letting good opportunities slip through the cracks, due to lack of proper lead follow-up.KnowledgeStorm, [...]
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RISMEDIA, July 12, 2007??”The cloud over the current residential real estate market has a silver lining.? The upper-tier market continues to boom, as evidenced by the record-breaking sale of a residential property in East Hampton (NY) for $103 million.? The race is already on to top this new record with four other homes currently [...]
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Reuters - The dollar was little changed against the euro and rose against the yen on Wednesday as a spike in investor aversion to risk tentatively faded and U.S. stocks indexes rebounded from Tuesday's swoon.
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By Jared Sandberg, The Wall Street Journal OnlineRISMEDIA, July 12, 2007??”(CareerJournal.com)??”Paul Dyer was always able to hold off his boss’s invitations to party by employing that arms-length response: “We’ll have to do that sometime,” he’d say.But when his boss, in his 30s, invited Dyer, 24 years old, to be friends on the social-networking sites [...]
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WCI Communities Inc. rebuffed Carl Icahn's $22-a-share buyout offer, but investors weren't pleased and have pushed its shares lower.
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