InMan News
Is a Mortgage the Best Home For a Year-end Bonus?
With the market gyrating and real-estate prices tanking, deciding what to do with your windfall isn't exactly easy these days.
Credit-Card Crunch Crimps Home-Equity Loans
While many holders of these loans and other lines of credit benefit from recent Fed rate cuts, such loans are now tougher to get.
There's No Place Like 'Home'
After returning to their hometown of Baton Rouge just a few years ago, Jeff and Amy Opdyke are thinking about moving abroad. The biggest reason: Home isn't what it used to be.
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crosscut.com : Real Estate / Land Use
More than cost determines housing affordability
A new way of looking at affordability might help Seattle City Council make smarter land-use decisions.
Review: Leopold film revitalizes land ethics for a new generation
A new Aldo Leopold documentary is set to premiere in Seattle's U-District, but can it bring the importance of land use and connectivity home to a new generation of conservationists?
Cantwell pushes a new bill to boost low-income housing and jobs
Washington Low Income Housing Alliance hosted Sen. Cantwell and affordable housing advocates at a forum in the impressively renovated Salishan neighborhood. Cantwell said her bill supports a "win-win-win" federal strategy.
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Future of Real Estate Marketing
What?s Next for FOREM?
The Future of Real Estate Marketing blog is a very special place for me. When I was getting my feet wet in this industry, FOREM was one of my go-to daily reads. The content that Joel Burslem created was no where to be found in 2006, 2007, and 2008 – back when people were saying, [...]
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Infographic: How We Work ? Mobile, Authentic, Engaged
At Inman News, we talk a lot about workstyle and how much has changed in just the last few years. How real estate professionals work, has been a fundamental theme of Agent Reboot and Real Estate Connect.Why? There is an absolute fundamental shift in how we do business, that has occurred because of technology, mobile [...]
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Have You Heard About Facebook?s Redesign?
Facebook doesn’t make many big changes quickly. Since it’s launch in 2004, with each new change comes a wave of people complaining or asking for it to go back to “the old way.” It looks like it may be that time again.
According to VentureBeat, Facebook’s developers are currently in the process of testing a new [...]
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RealEstateJournal.com Residential Real Estate News
Is a Mortgage the Best Home For a Year-end Bonus?
With the market gyrating and real-estate prices tanking, deciding what to do with your windfall isn't exactly easy these days.
Credit-Card Crunch Crimps Home-Equity Loans
While many holders of these loans and other lines of credit benefit from recent Fed rate cuts, such loans are now tougher to get.
There's No Place Like 'Home'
After returning to their hometown of Baton Rouge just a few years ago, Jeff and Amy Opdyke are thinking about moving abroad. The biggest reason: Home isn't what it used to be.
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RIS Media
Today?s News at a Glance
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Information Is Power?Again
 Setting yourself apart from your competition is becoming increasingly difficult. The emergence of social media into the business world has created platforms where constant, ongoing contact is possible. As a result of this desire to be in constant contact, many …
Bulk Sales of GSE Foreclosures Begin
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) recently invited investors interested in purchasing pools of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and FHA foreclosures in the nation’s hardest-hit metropolitan areas with the requirement they rent them for a period of years to pre-qualify.… 
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The Seattle Times: Home & real estate
Rising rebuild costs force homeowners to boost insurance
Home values are plummeting but rebuilding costs are not, and many customers don't understand the difference.
Debt aversion behind remodeling and cocooning by homeowners
According to federal estimates, owners of existing homes are spending more on renovations than people are spending on buying new homes.
Snapshot of 2011 housing market: More activity, lower prices
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Coldwell Banker Videos
Coldwell Banker Mon Feb 04 10:06:35 EST 2008
Coldwell Banker cbid=12345 bvid=340 Mon Feb 04 10:06:35 EST 2008
Installing a new hardwood floor
Installing hardwood floors increases a home's selling price by 6%. And doing it yourself may be cheaper than hiring outside help.
Remodeling a kitchen increases value
Remodeling a kitchen can yield big returns.Small remodels often lead to the largest increase in home value. And it's possible to remodel for a reasonable price.
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