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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) – Housing prices continue to defy forecasts of a slowdown. Nationally, median home prices gained 8.8 percent in the fourth quarter versus the same period in 2003, according to a National Association of Realtors (NAR) report. Here are the figures for areas around Massachusetts (Nantucket wasn’t listed) Boston MA 9.4% $387,800 Springfield [...]

Interest Rates Rising: Don’t Panic. Yet.

by Peter G. Miller Given the reaction in some quarters, mortgage rates at 6.01 percent plus .7 points are apparently an example of financial shock and awe, the first hint of oncoming economic depression, bursting housing bubbles, and looming currency devaluations. Relax. The fact is those allegedly-worrisome 6 percent loan levels are ludicrously cheap by [...]

New Real Estate Talk Radio Show

Fran Vernon and Rowena Emmett Talk Real Estate Announcing a new weekly radio show “Fran and Rowena Talk Real Estate” that is heard Sunday mornings at 11:00 AM on KRLA radio station AM 870. Fran and Rowena also publish the Southern California Real Estate Blog. Not in earshot? You can hear the program live here. [...]

Trading Places: Real Estate Instead of Dot-Coms

New York Times Published: March 25, 2005 By MOTOKO RICH and DAVID LEONHARDT Real estate-crazed Americans have started behaving in ways that eerily recall the stock market obsession of the late 1990′s. In Naples, Fla., some houses have been bought twice in a single day, an early-21st-century version of day trading. Buying stocks on margin [...]

High Demand Raises Cost of Second Homes

By STEVE BERGSMAN From Barron’s July 01, 2004 — Nantucket is an island in transition — from one mogul to the next. Just ask Pepper Frazier, the proprietor of J Pepper Frazier Realty, whose own block in tiny Monomoy recently welcomed two new part-time neighbors. On one side, a Wall Street honcho shelled out $11 [...]

Florin Copaceanu – New Market, Virginia Real Estate

If you are looking to buy or sell property in Shenandoah Valley, Rockingham County, or Page County Virginia, then Florin Copaceanu is always available to offer you personal, one-on-one help with what some say is the biggest decision you will make in your life. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call or [...]

Second Homes Now Mainstream

Why Have One House When You Can Have Two? Vacation houses and rentals accounted for more than a third of home sales in 2004, study finds. By Sarah Max, CNN/Money senior writer Where The Second Homes Are Located According to a study released by the National Association of Realtors on Tuesday, second homes accounted for [...]

Realty Times – Blanche Evans, Editor

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Ralph and Jeanne Janisch – Durango Colorado Real Estate

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Judith Weiner – Highland Park Illinois Real Estate Agent

For Lake County Illnois real estate, you have come to the right place! As a Real Estate Consultant serving the North Shore, North West, and Far North Suburbs of Chicago, I can help you with all of your real estate needs. I hope that my web site will be helpful in making the entire process [...]