SHAH GILANI Falling headline unemployment figures and rising home prices look good. But, a closer look will surely give average Americans heart palpitations. Institutional investors are crowding out traditional owner-occupied
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KELLI B. GRANT Flowers, shoes, pizza: Consumer goods are easy to order online. Now, more people are dropping thousands of dollars to buy—and customize—luxury-home plans over the Internet. Sites like
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ANYA MARTIN One of life’s luxuries is being able to afford a vacation home. But don’t underestimate its true cost—especially if you plan to rent it out… Doug Lebda, chief
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By SANETTE TANAKA If someone offered you $1 million for your home, would you sell? Real-estate listings company Zillow wanted to find out. In 2006, the company created a feature called
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By ALISON ROGERS EVERY saleswoman will tell you that the customer is always transparent. Maybe not entirely, completely, but compared with the poker face a buyer thinks that he or
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By: Jill Urban With city inventory so low, many people are once again buying pre-construction, relying on floorplans and renderings before pulling the trigger… … She recommends reviewing the rendering
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By SANETTE TANAKA …”They always tell you to take a bunch of cookie dough and shove it in the oven, so long as it doesn’t burn,” says Adorna Occhialini Carroll,
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By Kate Ashford Insanely low mortgage interest rates—and the knowledge that they’ll eventually go up again—make a lot of people feel like it’s time to buy a house right now.
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by Tripp Whetsell While no one knows for sure how many of the city’s half-million co-op and condo apartments have been purchased by parents for their adult children, real estate
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By Brendan Pierson The widespread property damage and power failures after Hurricane Sandy have opened uncharted legal territory for both residential and commercial landlords and tenants, who will likely be
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