Celine Dion lists a private Canadian island for $29.3 million; Ryan Seacrest is in escrow to buy Ellen DeGeneres's home for $37 million; a midtown Manhattan duplex lists for $12 million.
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Even if pushed, you don't have to share the details of your bank account or personal life.
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If last year was about big, manly architectural statements at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, this year is about exploring the softer, more sensual side of gardening, with smells and sounds featuring heavily in show spaces.
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This seven-bedroom house in Queenstown, New Zealand, with lake and mountain views has been used as a bed and breakfast for the past decade.
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A Queen Anne Victorian, one of San Francisco's 'Painted Ladies' overlooking Alamo Square Park, is on the market for $2.295 million.
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An $85 million L.A. mansion with a 500-worker renovation team. A $70 million London home with a bowling alley. The Ecclestone sisters are swiftly amassing a global property portfolio. The new generation of wealthy buyers.
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This 14,000-square-foot house on the St. Johns River is coming up for auction on May 24 with no minimum bid. The owners used to own the Jacksonville Jaguars football team, thus the painting of three jaguars that hangs over the fireplace in the living…
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This six-bedroom home on the European shore of the Bosphorus was built in 1999 in a fashionable district close to the center of Istanbul.
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Ultra-high-end homes are on the market for tens of millions in Door County, Wis., and other unexpected spots. What are they doing there?
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The government has given buyers using the credit another three months to close sales, and the initiative is being imitated on a smaller scale by states and private companies. But some think the market would be better off if we laid it to rest for goo…
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A new study reveals the cities that cost the most for foreign-based companies and individuals.
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An unnamed buyer paid more than $90 million for a Midtown Manhattan penthouse, the highest price ever paid for a New York apartment, according to the building's developer.
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Like so many Americans across the nation, Julie Clark commutes to work. But she doesn't drive, walk or even take a bus or train. Instead, she flies a plane.
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The Basis Point is a popular mortgage and housing blog that tracks consumer critical issues and data. It is edited by Julian Hebron, a retail mortgage lender who runs the San Francisco branches of RPM Mortgage.
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Buying a home has reached its most affordable level in more than two decades.
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Buying a home just got even cheaper as interest rates on both 30-year and 15-year-fixed-rate mortgages set record lows for the third week in a row.
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Foreclosure filings in April fell for the third straight month to the lowest level since July 2007.
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The percentage of borrowers who have dropped behind on their mortgage payments fell to a four-year low in the first three months of 2012, a bankers' group said Wednesday.
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The film emperor may be striking back. For 25 years, filmmaker George Lucas tried to persuade his Marin County, Calif., neighbors to let him build a digital production studio on his ranch there, but the area's residents thwarted the plan.
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Few today notice the giant 1902 powerhouse at the foot of East 74th Street, or have heard of George H. Pegram, the engineer who designed it.
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Developers are playing a game of “Can you top this?” as apartment buildings grow ever taller.
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New York City has a few homeownership options for those who cannot afford the market rate, including co-op apartments for buyers who earn a certain percentage of the area median income.
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Experts offer tips on how to raise your score most effectively.
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Supply remains plentiful for summer rentals in Litchfield County — unless you’re looking for a place with a pool.
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Everybody into the pool; a quest for electricity; the fine print on security deposits.
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To hear its landlords, city officials and residents tell it, Downtown Brooklyn has become extremely familiar with wholesale reinvention schemes.
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Dana Fuchs lived in two combined apartments, but after a while she wanted out from under two maintenance fees. A condominium seemed like a better idea.
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With real estate owned (REO) properties numbering in the millions, agents vying for new business opportunities will find an abounding REO market. With the right insurances in place, brokers will be able to both support their agents’ REO business wh…
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Today’s real estate market is challenging and competitive, but this year’s REALTOR® Magazine “30 Under 30″ honorees haven’t let that deter them. The 2012 class is following in the strong entrepreneurial tradition of real estate, creating t…
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(eM+C)—There’s a standing rule about hosting a dinner party: never cook up a new dish for the occasion. It’s best to try it out for yourself first or with close family members before seeing if the concoction will be a hit with others. The same…
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(MCT)—Anyone with a pile of money can build a big pile of a house, and back in the day, that’s what you did. (See, for instance, “Downton Abbey.”) But during the 20th century, a group of architects staged a controversial revolt. Why, they ask…
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- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 8:50pm -

The future of housing finance in the U.S. will be a key issue facing the winner of the upcoming presidential election. That’s what a panel of industry experts told several thousand Realtors® gathered at a symposium, Housing Policy in 2013: Challen…
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Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes gained five points in May from a downwardly revised reading in the previous month to reach a level of 29 on the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Ind…
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 8:10pm -

WASHINGTON, DC-The goal of this program is to integrate BOMA more deeply into the commercial real estate community, a BOMA spokesperson tells GlobeSt.com's Erika Morphy.
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WASHINGTON, DC-The Architecture Billings Index moved back into negative territory after five months of positive readings.
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WASHINGTON, DC-A memo by Jeffrey Zients, acting director of OMB, makes clear that the mandate for agencies to clamp down on their space needs is not going away. But it provides little guidance on how to execute.
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Competition is its own incentive. That's just one of the messages the association has for Capitol Hill.
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Apartment developers are banking on demographic and lifestyle shifts to fill urban infill multifamily projects
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You won't see many new malls coming on line these days. What you will see is investors snapping up existing product for repositioning opportunities.
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Despite lingering economic worries, consumer spending is trending upward, which bodes well for the sector-although not necessarily for brick-and-mortar stores
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Same-store sales are improving and retailers are expanding again. Occupancies and rents are up. So are transaction volumes and sales prices. All this has pushed the sector to the forefront of investment conversations.
- 2 days ago, 17 May 12, 3:31pm -

Gina Farina faced a remodeling challenge with her small two-level Arlington condo when she sought to open to up the space to accommodate a new roommate. Answering the call was Georgetown architect Ernesto Santalla.
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Q. I have a fiberglass shower wall and tub that have accumulated a lot of hard-water stains, soap scum and dirt. I have tried all kinds of products, and they just don't clean it. Can you help? ¿ C. Davis
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If late winter was an indicator, we are headed for a bumper crop of flowers this spring. I saw the first color in Chevy Chase on the forsythia March 8 with buds opening enough to tease with a hint of yellow.
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Andrew Leighton is not a golfer, but the prospect of living on a golf course was intriguing when he and his family discovered the Cross Creek neighborhood. Now, Leighton, his wife, Jackie and their two children enjoy the view from their home adjacent…
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Many taxpayers are preparing for their annual battle with IRS form 1040 by gathering up all their documents, statements, checks and other assorted papers. At the end of this process, taxpayers are often left with piles of neatly sorted, tabulated and…
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Mortgage rates fell to the lowest level in almost two months, tracking a drop in Treasury yields as Japan's deepening nuclear crisis spurred demand for relatively safe investments.
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Six-bedroom, five-courtyard home with Venetian accents offers ocean and coastline views.Taking its cues from Teatro La Fenice, an opera house in Venice, this Italian Renaissance-style estate was recently doubled in size. Five courtyards bring the liv…
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A famous name can boost buyer interest in a home, but it doesn't necessarily pump up the price.Their internationally recognized names sell music and movie tickets. They promote perfumes and presidents. But when it comes to selling their own houses, c…
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The daytime show host has sold her 3-acre Beverly Hills compound, which includes four structures, to Ryan Seacrest.Cyberspace was a-twitter this week with the news that Ryan Seacrest is buying Ellen DeGeneres' Beverly Hills compound for $37 milli…
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The revisions could remove at least some of the obstacles that have dissuaded condo homeowner association boards from seeking approval or recertification of their buildings for FHA loans.WASHINGTON — Thousands of condominium owners and buyers aroun…
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Question: There are five directors on our homeowners association board. If the vote on an item is two yes, two no and one abstention, what is the outcome: yes or no?
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California's housing market showed strength in April as median prices rose and sales outperformed the same month last year.
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Foreclosure activity in the U.S. fell last month to its lowest level since the start of the credit crisis in 2007, driven largely by drops in states such as California, where the process occurs outside of the courtroom.
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The modern four-bedroom, 41/2-bathroom house is designed for entertaining and features a massive concrete fireplace, a glass-walled loft and walls of glass looking out onto the swimming pool and deck.Pocket doors slide away to connect the indoors and…
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It is one of housing's age-old puzzles: What features can I add to increase the value of my property?
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Former Chicago Bears strong safety Chris Harris has put his six-bedroom, 3,139-square-foot Gurnee home on the market for $329,000.
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Banks and Bo are the biggest reasons Della and Jack Campbell chose their new condo at the 60-unit Wolf Ridge Condominiums development in Northlake.
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ShoDeen Residential has rolled out new single-family home designs at three developments in Mill Creek, a master-planned golf course community in Geneva.
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The way Maria Gisseler sees it, her extended-family living arrangement offers a nice payback for all the years her mother helped her growing up and with her two children after she married.
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Thinking about fudging on your application for a mortgage?
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Foreclosure activity in the U.S. fell last month to its lowest level since the start of the credit crisis in 2007, driven largely by drops in states such as California, where the process occurs outside of the courtroom.
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OK, maybe it's not as jaw-dropping as crashing the 5% or the 4% barrier. But Freddie Mac says 30-year mortgage rates have fallen below 3.8% for the first time to average 3.79%, down from a then-record 3.83% a week ago.
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Commercial real estate professional Brian Whiting has launched The Telos Group LLC, a commercial real estate leasing, marketing and consulting firm.
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NAR's annual Member Survey just came out for 2012 giving us lots of data about members and how they did business in 2011.  I went straight to stuff about their Web presence and the business it generates for them, and it was pretty depressing.  Thus…
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Home Economics: How to rate a real estate agent - Philly.com.Yet another "rate the agents" site is touting the ability to help consumers to choose the right real estate professional. ...Read Full Post
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The NAR Member Profile for 2012 is out, and you can download it here.   There is a lot of information about NAR members, but for this post, just a few website numbers I thought were interesting....Read Full Post
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I have written about this before, but it keeps happening so I keep ranting in the hopes that some real estate agents will figure out that some spam avoidance mechanisms are costing them perhaps thousands of dollars every year!  Apparently, someone s…
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OK, so I wanted a headline to get your attention.  However, I don't believe that open houses do anything to sell the subject homes in 99%+ of cases, and NAR's annual survey pretty much verifies that.  Here's an open house article quoting Realtors w…
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With the announcement that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are introducing new rules for lenders in handling short sales, there just may be more of them in the near future.  While some lenders have already been more inclined to process short sales to avo…
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Real estate professionals have come a long way in learning the ropes for SEO, Search Engine Optimization, of their real estate website content.  However, many still complain that they don't get enough qualified leads from their websites, and they wo…
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I don't list, and when I did, I didn't list foreclosures.  However, I admire real estate professionals who jump through all of the hoops to list homes for short sale, in pre-foreclosure, and foreclosed homes.  Between the extra paperwork and respon…
- 23 days ago, 26 Apr 12, 9:56am -

One of the most subservient organizations to the federal government has had enough of government regulations and is fighting back. The National Association of Home Builders has gone along with the myriad of government programs that lined the pockets…
- 8 days ago, 11 May 12, 2:30pm -

Coming from the guy who “went” by the name of the real estate blogger, I am calling this game… Real Estate Blogging is dying, fast. If you want to learn more, contact me on Twitter – @tomroyce or call me at 770-755-1503. Thanks for reading th…
- 42 days ago, 7 Apr 12, 6:17pm -

An open letter to the National Association of Realtors members from one of our readers. Dear REALTORS, With their latest press release, it seems that the National Association of REALTORS has completely given up being a credible source of housing data…
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This is not something that will only be asked by native New Yorkers to the rubes visiting from out of town. Instead, Empire State Realty Trust, owners of the Empire State Building have announced it will take the company public. Yes, you too can own…
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The meme has hit the real estate world, courtesy of Brian Copeland and Maura Neill the folks at RETSO.   See home many real estate memes you can find… Thanks for reading this post. If you would like to see more articles like this, please come vis…
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Are you ready for a real estate investment conference that is not on big sell and spam fest? Are you tired of every speaker from the stage pitching their product instead of teaching you? Well, your conference has arrived. Josh Dorkin and the crew ove…
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The new home sales data was released and the results are less than stellar. For 2011, there were only 302,000 new home sold nationwide. For perspective, in the South the numbers were the lowest since 1966, and that is the good news. In both the North…
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Typically when you think of a battle between a house and a Prius, you add a dose of a drunk driver and a garage and you are done… But not today. It looks like that super efficient windows are reflecting so much energy onto a car parked in Southern…
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The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics - strong fundamentals and a valuat…
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Well cared for, charming farmhouse in the hub of "T" Harbor. Original tin ceiling in kitchen and has built-ins in den.
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Today's real estate market is challenging and competitive, but this year's REALTORA Magazine "30 Under 30" honorees haven't let that deter them.
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SANTA MONICA: A set of rare nude photos of Marilyn Monroe have gone on display in an unexpected place: Santa Monica women's shop Hip'tique . The images, taken by Lawrence Schiller in 1960, are available for sale at $18,000 a pop.
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Representatives from the New York State Association of Realtors and Buffalo Niagara Association of Realtors were present to award two scholarships at a recent reception ceremony at the BNAR's headquarters at 200 John James Audubon Parkway.
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There is so much drama these days around the old Old Spaghetti Factory property in Hollywood! CIM Group bought the site in August last year and plan to build an already-entitled mixed-use tower.
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The New First Family of Real Estate : In a real estate shopping spree of epic proportions, the daughters of Formula 1 Racing boss Bernie Ecclestone have snapped up hundreds of millions of dollars worth of high-profile properties in the past 18 months…
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Herb Brodt's LaFayette house has a four bedrooms, three baths a large garage and a new roof.
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Rethinking Retail: The digital version of the May-June Issue of CIRE (CCIM) Magazine is online. This edition's articles include retail, valuations, real estate apps, LOI's, the 1031, and technology.Please click on the link to read complete comment…
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JLL Updates & Interviews from CoreNet Global Spring 2012Please click on the link to read complete commentary. Thank you!
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Our friends at Chick-fil-A are once again making the Chick-fil-A Leadercast event available via simulcast at various venues.Please click on the link to read complete commentary. Thank you!
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Is the internet ruining your brain?Please click on the link to read complete commentary. Thank you!
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The March-April 2012 Issue of CoreNet Global's Leader is now online. Articles include: 2012 State-of-the-Industry Report, Planning Guide for Tomorrow's Workforce, BIM Technology, and Attracting...Please click on the link to read complete commentar…
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The 2012 Real Estate Outlook is presented by Jeff DuFresne, CPM, CCIM. Jeff is the Executive Director of the Urban Land Institute.Please click on the link to read complete commentary. Thank you!
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March-April 2012 CIRE: Temp Stores Leases, Web-based Strategies, Federal Tenants, Tax Deductions, and Ground LeasesPlease click on the link to read complete commentary. Thank you!
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Our friend Erik Qualman has updated his popular "Socialnomics" video.Please click on the link to read complete commentary. Thank you!
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