I’m still hearing fall-out from the DOJ/NAR suit settlement and reporters are still dithering about the meaning of it all.
Laurie Janik, the NAR’s general counsel, said in a telephone interview here, that the settlement would have no real impact on home buyers or sellers.
“I don’t think they’ll see anything different,” she said. “This lawsuit never […]

At ByTheOwner.com we always try to make sure that our customer’s selling process is as easy as possible. We know that not everyone has sold privately before and some people have questions about the process and what they can do to sell their home without an agent. In the past we have created tools to […]

‘Peak oil’ theorists say house prices outside cities will collapse as the cost of gas rises, forcing people to choose urban living.
According to some doomsday scenarios, spiking gas prices could turn the cul-de-sacs and two-car garages that surround North America’s cities - built over the past 60 years and designed for the convenience of […]

Redfin surveys people every day, all day: when they tour homes, when they make offers, when they cancel listings, when they sell their house. It’s how we decide what to pay our agents, and how we figure out when we’re screwing up.
But for every thousand visitors we get to our site only a few end […]

Redfin surveys people every day, all day: when they tour homes, when they make offers, when they cancel listings, when they sell their house. It’s how we decide what to pay our agents, and how we figure out when we’re screwing up.
But for every thousand visitors we get to our site only a few end […]

The Housing Slump Is a Stumbling Block in More and More Divorces
 
Last month, median house prices saw their largest annual decline in nearly a decade, while sales for single-family homes nationwide dropped 2 percent, according to the National Association of Realtors. As shrinking home values, slow home sales and the credit crunch take their toll […]

                                       
Same-sex marriages will probably lead to more home sales in California, said Patrick Lowell, a Realtor with Zephyr Real Estate in San Francisco — and same-sex divorces will also bring more transactions to real estate agents.
 
Lowell said that same-sex marriages are so new to California that he hasn’t specifically marketed to newly married same-sex […]

These are details to Structuring & Negotiating Commercial Leases.
Topics covered include: - Other parties involved: Guarantor, Lender, Title insurance company, Attorney - Understanding the details of your business plans determines the lease - Long term implications of your agreements - The relationship with the landlord: advantages & disadvantages - […]

About 15 miles east of downtown Knoxville, Tennessee in the rural little community of Corryton is the Oakes Daylily Farm, home to the annual Daylily Festival. Yesterday my lovely wife Charlotte and I went for a visit. It was not our first visit, we’ve been several times to see the spectacular display of around 40 […]

Hello,
The Canada Day weekend is here and many clients are enjoying Ontario’s wonderful cottage country (in fact, some are enjoying cottage life so much that they are contemplating a purchase!).
Did you know CMHC insures vacation homes
CMHC will insure a property the borrower uses for vacation purposes as long as the property is occupied at […]