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.
Broadway producer makes a wicked good purchase in the San Remo
Dahlink, Hungarian refugee’s Bel Air mansion may soon be listed for $30 million
Number of homeowners owing more than property’s worth swells to 28 percent
Prices drop 1.5 percent in March to 4.9 percent below 2009’s post-bubble nadir
Peak to 2009 trough prices plunge 36 percent but exceed last March by 1 percent
Rates decline for fourth straight week below a year ago to low for 2011
With rates easing again, loan volume picks up
Mortgage fraud reaches record high
Foreclosure filing drop 9 percent from March and 34 below one year earlier
Developers tailor apartments to suit so-called “echo boomers”
UK housing market remains weak
Assisted living arrangements experience a boom
Disgruntled buyers say Trump merely ‘rented’ his name
Power stretching is the answer to buckles, wrinkles and bubbles in wall-to-wall carpet
Only ambitious do-it-yourselfers may want to tackle tiling
The rent or buy conundrum is solved
Stark contrasts exist in housing affordability between major races and ethnic groups
Builders find buyer hesitance in 55-plus housing market
Conservative economist envisions ‘extended rocky and bumpy bottom’
Another five years for housing market’s recovery?
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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