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Florida Lawmaker Proposes $1,000/Year Property Tax Rebate for Next 5 Years
The rebates would be administered by the Florida Department of Financial Services. Continue Reading Florida Lawmaker Proposes $1,000/Year Property Tax Rebate for Next 5 Years
Michigan Woman Charged with 10 Felonies in Real Estate Fraud Schemes
Amanda Escalante-Lopez allegedly made several verbal agreements for land contracts and title to homes that she did not own. Continue Reading Michigan Woman Charged with 10 Felonies in Real Estate Fraud Schemes
Does real estate take a winter holiday?
Source: Las Cruces Sun News --- Most people are aware that the spring and summer months are considered the “high season” for real estate sales. In most areas of the country, sales begin trending upward in April and May and remain brisk well into the summer months. The...
REITs Vs. Private Equity Real Estate: What’s The Best Way To Invest?
Source: Seeking Alpha --- Investors are constantly faced with the choice of how to allocate scarce investment capital. Most of those fortunate enough to have a meaningful amount of funds to invest know the benefits of exposure to commercial real estate, especially in...
Mortgage and real estate news this week: What’s up with rates and advice for unmarried homebuying partners
Source: Bankrate --- th the holiday season nearly upon us, things have really slowed down in the mortgage and real estate sphere. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing to say! Rates are still in flux, and as you prepare to settle your resolutions for the new year,...
Real Estate newsletter: A $75-million hot-pink mega-mansion
Source: LA Times --- Welcome back to the Real Estate newsletter. Someday, I’ll kick this off with good news (for buyers, anyway) and declare that home prices are plummeting and California is finally affordable. Today is not that day. This week, two new data sets...
How To Get Rid Of Private Mortgage Insurance (PMI)
Source: Forbes Advisor --- If you have to pay private mortgage insurance (PMI), you’re likely looking forward to the day your home equity hits 20% of the home purchase price so you can be released from PMI payments on your mortgage. Better yet, rising home values...
Exercise caution re: real estate
Source: Boothbay Register --- Dear Editor: Since the pandemic began, more people can work remotely so Maine in general, and the Boothbay region specifically, have become a magnet for people looking for a healthier lifestyle. Because of this significant change in the...
Should Rising Mortgage Rates Stop You From Buying a Home Right Now?
Source: Nasdaq --- There's a reason so many people clamored to buy homes in 2020 and rushed to refinance their mortgages. For much of last year, mortgage rates sat at or near historic lows, with the 30-year mortgage being available at under 3%. But rates have risen a...
Zillow went on a Front Range home-buying binge
Source: Highlands Ranch Herald --- The collapse of online real estate giant Zillow’s venture into home buying and selling, announced Nov. 2, can be traced, in one small part, back to its over eagerness to invest in Colorado’s red-hot real estate market. The company...
3 Reasons You Might Regret Buying New Construction
Source: Motley Fool --- There are plenty of good reasons to purchase a newly built home. For one thing, you may get a chance to customize different features to suit your taste. And when you buy new construction, you get to move right in. You don't need to worry about...
Virtual real estate
Source: AMI Sun --- As the world moves closer and closer to virtual realities and artificial intelligence, no area of our lives will be unchanged. Real estate is and has always been a people-to-people business and based on Zillow’s recent experiment with automating...
