10 Reasons You Should Never Buy Or Sell Without An Agent
As with most important things in life, you wouldn’t try to handle a legal situation without an attorney, build your own house or take on the IRS solo to challenge a tax matter. Well, buying or selling a home is no different. Here are 10 reasons you should never buy or sell a home without an agent.
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11.4 million Americans spend half their income on rent
The cost-burden for renters is at a historic high, a Harvard University housing report found. Over six years, the number of Americans paying half their salary on rent has grown from 2.1 million to 11.4 million. Median rent is now $1,381 per month.
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Zillow And Move Settle Trade Secrets Lawsuit
Key Takeaways The deal resolves all claims in litigation that began with Move and its co-plaintiff, the National Association of Realtors, filing a lawsuit against Zillow and Zillow executive Errol Samuelson in March 2014 for misappropriation of trade secrets. Luxury Connect Meet the Luxury Leaders | October 19-20 | Beverly Hills Archrivals Zillow and realtor.com operator Move Inc.
Sellers Happy, But Home Buyers Are Frustrated
Sellers Happy, But Home Buyers Are FrustratedThe number of home buyers who say now is a good time to buy dipped to an all-time survey low in Fannie Mae’s latest Home Purchase Sentiment Index. Meanwhile, home owners who say now is a good time to sell soared to an all-time survey high.
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These 7 Charts Show Why the Rent Is Too Damn High
These 7 charts show why the rent is too damn highMore Americans than ever before are unable to afford rent. Here’s a look at why the rent is too damn high and what can be done about it. Part of the problem has to do with simple supply and demand. Millions of Americans lost their homes during the foreclosure crisis, and many of those folks flooded into the rental market.
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U.S. existing home sales fall, investors pulling back
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Shipping Containers: The new urban homes
Shipping Containers: The new urban homes | Al Jazeera America“A lot of us young professionals in the area would stuff as many people as possible in for lower rent – so that was the goal,” said Davies as she walked through the site pointing out features designed to satisfy the needs of twenty-somethings.
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Renting drives U.S. homeownership to 19-year low
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Millennials can afford homes, but aren’t buying
Study: Millennials can afford homes, but aren’t buying | Al Jazeera AmericaMost millennials living in the nation’s largest metropolitan areas can afford to buy homes, but are instead choosing to rent or live with their parents, according to two leading household research institutions.
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‘The truth is worse than we imagine’: One-quarter of public company deals involve insider trading
‘The truth is worse than we imagine’: One-quarter of public company deals involve insider tradingAndrew Burton / Getty Images / AFP An award-winning new study claims that more than a quarter of all public company deals involve transactions that could be consider examples of insider trading. The recently published report from Menachem Brenner and Marti G.
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Millennials and the Shift to Apartments
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Special Report: The latest foreclosure horror: the zombie title
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Blackstone unit Invitation Homes sued over rental house’s condition
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Laura Gottesdiener, Wall Street’s Rental Empire
Tomgram: Laura Gottesdiener, Wall Street’s Rental Empire | TomDispatchNote for TomDispatch Readers: Our next piece will be posted on Sunday evening, December 1st. Happy Thanksgiving! Tom] “One shitty deal.” “Shitty deal.” “Shitty.” The date was April 27, 2010, and Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.) was pissed as he launched into a rant with those pungent quotes in it.
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Home sales fall as prices rise
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Will ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’ Become a Major Financing Source for CRE Deals?
Will ‘Wisdom of the Crowd’ Become a Major Financing Source for CRE Deals?With a unanimous vote, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week agreed to propose news rules permitting companies to offer and sell securities through what has recently come to be known as crowdfunding.
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U.S. new home sales fall sharply; house prices rise
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U.S. July existing home sales jump to three-year high
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Banks Outbidding Private Equity Funds at Foreclosures, Believing They Can Beat Them at the Pump and Dump Game
naked capitalismIt’s conventional to deem local journalism to be dead, but Josh Salman at the Sarasota Herald-Tribune has written well-researched investigative story on bank bidding at foreclosures in his neck of the woods, Big lenders bidding to keep homes, that has national implications.
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Behind the Rise in House Prices, Wall Street BuyersThe last time the housing market was this hot in Phoenix and Las Vegas, the buyers pushing up prices were mostly small time. Nowadays, they are big time – Wall Street big. Large investment firms have spent billions of dollars over the last year buying homes in some of the nation’s most depressed markets.
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