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Google Starts Listing Homes
Google has developed a section of their site for advertising homes for sale. Currently they are just looking at advertising properties in the US. Here is a link to the blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/homes-not-just-homepages.html
Here is the link to their homes site:
http://base.google.com
www.bytheowner.com
Location Scout
Every once in a while I’m contacted by location scouts searching for places to film around the Seattle area. They’ve usually seen something on Unusual Life or some artists home on Seattle Dream Homes and they need a house or vacant lot, other times they’re looking for entire streets.
I wrote about being […]
Real Estate Glossary: C
Cadastral designation Information concerning an immovable (location, area, value, etc.), contained in the cadastre for a given region.
Cadastre Public register containing the technical data on each immovable in a given region (lot). A lot number used to publish the applicable rights is assigned to each property indexed in the cadastre.
Certificate of location Document containing […]
Is Home Ownership Right For You?
While you probably have a lot of good reasons for wanting to buy a home, you also have to consider your reasons for not wanting to.
Remember that buying a home is one of the biggest emotional and financial decisions you?ll ever make, so prepare yourself to make a knowledgeable decision. Although buying a home […]
Real Estate Glossary: B
Brokerage Contract Agreement under which a person authorizes real estate broker to act for a given period of time, as intermediary in the purchase, sale, rental or exchange of immovable property. The brokerage contract officializes the rights and obligations of the broker and his client by mutual consent. In an exclusive brokerage contract the […]
MLS to Redfin: Down Dog, and Kennel!
Rainer Maria Rilke once wrote that we have in love to learn only this: letting go. Everything else comes naturally. In starting Sweet Digs, a blog that provided independent, eyewitness reviews of houses for sale, we had forgotten this advice.
(Bahn Lee, Sweet Digs mastermind)
After almost a year of negotiations came to a head with […]
Home prices, sales still sizzling
Historically low mortgage rates pave way to record levels in April
Globe and Mail TAVIA GRANT May 17, 2007
Canadian home prices and sales both set records last month, a stark contrast to a wilting housing market south of the border.
The average price of a home jumped 9.5 per cent in April from a year ago to […]
NAR Report shows that 46% of Successfull FSBO’s would Sell Home by Owner Again
Many real estate agents would lead consumers to believe that they should attempt to sell a home FSBO and those that do will use a real estate agent the next time. According to the 2006 NAR Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, FSBO’s where asked if they would sell by owner the next time. […]
NAR Report shows that 46% of Successfull FSBO’s would Sell Home by Owner Again
Many real estate agents would lead consumers to believe that they should attempt to sell a home FSBO and those that do will use a real estate agent the next time. According to the 2006 NAR Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, FSBO’s where asked if they would sell by owner the next time. […]
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