Here’s your chance to catch up with news included to inform, enlighten and perhaps even entertain you. To read about The Big Apple, check out the other of today’s posts and look for Out and About early next week.
With the sale of her two apartments, perhaps she’s finding bliss
What would Miss Piggy say about the sale price of her old home?
An actor’s hoping to see live buyers and an author wants $745,000 on Artists’ Row
Case-Shiller records downward trend in January
Percentage of forced sales is rising, putting pressure on prices
Pending home sales increase in February but inconsistently across the country
1.8 million homes now counted as shadow inventory, down from 2 million one year ago
It is no mystery why new homes lag sales of previously owned ones
Slight increase posted for 30-year and adjustable-rate loans
Lying borrower gets a new home complete with bars
Homeowners with more than $1 million mortgage face additional IRS scrutiny
Loan activity drops 7.5 percent from prior week
Delinquency rate ticks down in January, falling more than one point below a year earlier
Increasing property taxes are revolting
Billionaire, of course, pays $100 million to own Silicon Valley big house
What does a buyer’s broker bring to a home being sold by its owner?
A Web site tells you exactly where to go
Brokerage ranks grow grayer again
New refrigerators are all about efficient use of space and freezers on their bottoms
Lavish loses its cool, so ‘undecoration’ becomes a warming trend
The ravages of a wicked winter can be overcome around single-family homes
Fortune columnist contends that housing is the most attractive asset class in America
Renting may soon become disproportionately more expensive than buying, a numbers cruncher says
You can search for 20,000 New York City properties listed by various brokers, and I encourage you to be in touch with me for assistance and advice. You also may want to see my periodic critiques of properties that I visit in Out and About , which I post on Mondays or Tuesdays.
Malcolm Carter
Licensed Associate Real Estate Broker
Senior Vice President
Charles Rutenberg Realty
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New York, NY 10022
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