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What percentage of buyers today are going online to start or support their search for homes? 85% to 90% of them.
As the first Project Manager in the latest Celebrity Apprentice, Richard Hatch was not only arrogant and obnoxious, but mildly physical with the much smaller David Cassidy.
Sunset Park is one or two subway stops further away from Manhattan than Park Slope, so it's gentrifying accordingly. It is a less pretentious area, but, then again, it has less to be pretentious about.
If there's a news report soon about a formerly nice suburban neighborhood morphing into a home-selling battlefield, I may have to take a bit of the blame.
From a western perspective, the Mumbai real estate market appears caught in desperate mess.
The America of 2011 is similar to Nixon's America -- one in which the dominant ideology of suburban living has consumed the nation's political and economic imagination.
Here's an equation that would make any developer queasy: Lawyer purchasing a condo, plus alleged misrepresentation about the apartment's square footage = lawsuit.
Bubbles are serious when they are massive. What could pop the bubble would be China's failure to restrain inflation and its subsequent hard landing.
I earn a living representing buyers and sellers of real estate, so discouraging a client from entering into a transaction was certainly against my interests.
Buyers know fair market value, and it is certainly not the price being offered most of the time, which causes our current stalemate. So when will this climate change?
Everyone I speak with in the Manhattan real estate industry says the same thing: the volume of their business is up. As a broker, I'm trying to figure out why.
The one-two punch of higher interest rates and the inevitability of changes coming to Fannie and Freddie only further slow the process of the elusive real estate recovery.
In obtaining a mortgage, a homeowner pays in the form of points. Sadly, homeowners seeking modifications have been paying upfront fees to scammers and agencies that are preying on their desperation.
Small co-ops and condos have their own unique features. Here are five issues that should carefully be considered when contemplating a purchase in a small building.
If we truly see homelessness as a crisis, we would be instituting emergency rules that would temporarily breakdown bureaucratic barriers, overcome expensive rules and streamline the process.
Lenders, brokers and borrowers beware. The Small Business Administration's Inspector General is looking for errors made during the origination, closing and servicing procedures.
