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If the U.S. foreclosure crisis were a baseball game, we’d probably be in the bottom of the fourth inning. That’s roughly the message from the latest data on home foreclosures and delinquencies released by an industry association Thursday. The pace of new home foreclosures edged up again in the third quarter and the number of borrowers falling behind on their payments eased a bit, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. The good news was that the rate of borrowers who have fallen three or more months behind on their payments has dropped to […]

Foreclosed homes left standing empty are increasingly becoming overtaken and turned into marijuana farms inside. The problem has particularly surfaced in Las Vegas. For example, at one foreclosed home in Las Vegas, police seized 878 marijuana plants worth about $2.6 million, the Los Angeles Times reports. In Nevada — which for the last few years has had the highest foreclosure rate in the country — authorities this year have busted at least 130 indoor grow sites, which is nearly two dozen more than at the same point in 2010, says the […]

I have been serving the Tacoma GLBT community for 8 years as a Real Estate professional. Having been born and raised here I am intimately familiar with Tacoma and the surrounding communities. Whether this is your first home, you are moving here or you are are moving up I can help you with my knowledge of the local market trends, neighborhood profiles and community services. Even if you are not ready to buy or sell, but are looking at your future goals, feel free to contact me and we can […]

Originally from a small town in Wisconsin his relocation to the Twin Cities began with a teaching opportunity for a high school marketing program in Elk River, Minnesota. It afforded him the opportunity to practice and demonstrate the benefits of Real Estate in a teaching environment. With his 13 years of Real Estate experience, now at RE/MAX Advantage Plus he continues to exceed his goals. 4 years running he has once again been awarded 2011 Twin Cities “Super Agent”. Selling over $14,000,000 in sales and closing 90 transactions in 2010 […]

At Gay Real Estate, we keep you posted about all the residential real estate news affecting the LGBT community coast to coast, and in your neighborhood. Click here for list of gay realtors, lesbian realtors and gay friendly realtors Nationwide. WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury today released the July edition of the Obama Administration’s Housing Scorecard – a comprehensive report on the nation’s housing market. The latest housing data offer continued mixed signals as home prices improved […]

Code of Ethics amended In January of this year, Article 10 of The Realtor Code of Ethics was amended to include sexual orientation as a protected class.  Article 10 in its entirety now reads as follows: Realtors® shall not deny equal professional services to any person for reasons of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or sexual orientation. Realtors® shall not be parties to any plan or agreement to discriminate against a person or persons on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, […]

Recovery? In these areas, hitting the bottom of will have to come first The real estate market is already in the deepest depression in modern U.S. history. If you think it can’t get any worse, think again. In several cities, the real estate market is about to drop even more. Home values in many of those cities, such as Las Vegas, have already collapsed as unemployment has shot higher. And with no hope of quick recovery, housing prices are expected to continue to fall. 24/7 Wall St. identified ten housing […]

The number of same-sex couples who call New Jersey home increased significantly over the last 10 years, according to the latest census figures. There are 24,112 same-sex couples living in New Jersey — a 45 percent increase from 2000, according to the 2010 Census. By comparison, New York City has 32,972 same-sex couples. The sharpest increase was in Asbury Park, which had a 305 percent gain in the same sex couples. Hoboken (70.7 percent increase), Jersey City (44.2 percent) and Newark (12.7 percent) all saw significant increases. Anthony Newarski and his […]

Property values in Tauranga are staying steady, with QV reporting a slight drop in value in July on the same month last year. The city’s property values were 1.7 per cent lower than last July, QV’s Residential Price Index for July showed. Shayne Donovan-Grammer of QV Valuations said there had been no significant changes to the Tauranga market in the past two months. But feedback from real estate agents indicated there was a shortage of “tidy” homes for sale that were centrally located in the lower to mid value category, […]

Foreclosure filings across Broward and Palm Beach counties are down in July by more than 50 percent compared with a year ago, according to RealtyTrac Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based listing firm. Nationally, foreclosure activity hit a 44-month low. It’d be great if all this were a sign of an improving economy, but it’s not. “This string of decreases was initially triggered by the robo-signing controversy back in October 2010, which forced lenders to substantially slow the pace of foreclosing, but the downward trend in foreclosure activity has now taken on […]