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• Spring Home-Buying Season Gets an Early Start

  26-02-2017 19:09
  
  Housing is set to smash records in February, with realtor.com® forecasting both the fewest days on market since the recession and the month’s highest list prices—an early start to the spring home-buying season, says realtor.com Chief Economist Jonathan Smoke.
  “The spring buying season is off to a booming start,” Smoke says. “Not only is the season starting a month early, February is also expected to see the fastest-moving inventory in a decade, as well as the hi
  
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• Appreciation Activity Shifts to the South

  26-02-2017 19:08
  
  Housing markets in the South are experiencing higher levels of appreciation than those in California, which had been at the forefront of rising values, according to the Zillow Real Estate Market Reports for January. Appreciation in Nashville, Tenn., surpassed that of leader Portland, Ore., at a year-over-year rate of 12.4 percent. Home values in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, and Tampa and Orlando, Fla., appreciated more than 10 percent year-over-year.
  Appreciation in California’s most coveted
  
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• New-Home Sales Leave Room to Grow in January

  26-02-2017 19:06
  
  New-home sales showed improvement in January—but left room to grow—at 555,000, a 3.7 percent increase, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The average new-home sales price was $360,900, while the median was $312,900. New-home listing inventory was 265,000—5.7 months supply.
  “This disappointing report showcases the paltry gains we’ve seen recently in the new-home market in stark contrast to the strength in th
  
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• Colorado mountain real estate market slightly down in 2016 on election cycle blues - The Denver Post

  26-02-2017 13:41
  
  The Denver Post
  Colorado mountain real estate market slightly down in 2016 on election cycle blues
  The Denver Post
  The historic Redstone Castle, a 42-room, 23,000-square-foot residence in Redstone, was sold at auction in 2016. The winning bidders were Steve and April Carver, owners of The Hotel Denver in Glenwood Springs. They purchased the property for $2.2 ...
  
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• Real estate briefly: Shopoff, Argosy secure loan for Anaheim residential project - OCRegister

  26-02-2017 09:01
  
  OCRegister
  Real estate briefly: Shopoff, Argosy secure loan for Anaheim residential project
  OCRegister
  Brigitte Ataya has been named to the board for the Orange County Chapter of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP). Ataya will serve a one-year term as events director for the organization. Ataya is the SVP regional ...
  
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• Why Real Estate Will Never Be The Same - Seeking Alpha

  26-02-2017 06:14
  
  Seeking Alpha
  Why Real Estate Will Never Be The Same
  Seeking Alpha
  We'll never see a near non-stop and unprecedented real estate boom like the one from 1933 to 2005 again. We're heading right into a great residential and commercial real estate crash ahead. Demographically speaking, this crash is unavoidable. I ...
  
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• Realities of Real Estate: Living on the cheap in Anne Arundel County - CapitalGazette.com

  26-02-2017 02:32
  
  CapitalGazette.com
  Realities of Real Estate: Living on the cheap in Anne Arundel County
  CapitalGazette.com
  Over the past five years, 1,154 properties in Anne Arundel sold for less than $100,000, compared to 764 that sold for $1 million and above. (Courtesy of Bob and Donna). Bob Hough and Bob and Donna McWilliamsContact ReportersCorrespondents. Realities ...and more »
  
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