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RealEstate.com Cashes Out for $8.2 Million

By Phil Butler | September 22, 2011
In technology news, Market Leader, an online marketing and technology company, has just acquired RealEstate.com for $8.25 million. The deal included the RealEstate.com domain, website, the network, some 250 + brokerages who participate, patents, and many other domain names, according to the news.
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Perspective On The Housing Market - Localized Solutions Needed (Part 2)

By Donna S. Robinson | September 21, 2011
As I noted in part one of this two part commentary, the U.S. Housing market is not one big market, but rather a large collection of individual markets with individual problems which will respond best to individual solutions customized for a specific local market. With this fact in mind, I'd like to list some ideas […]
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Richard Drecksler & IDX - Now That's Engaging Asheville

By Phil Butler | September 20, 2011
In news from North Carolina, Richard Drecksler and IDX, Inc. have announced their new IDX enabled website aimed at improving visitor real estate search. The Asheville company intends to revolutionize the way home buyers locate their dream home online.
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A Perspective On The U.S. Housing Market, We Need Localized Solutions (Part 1)

By Donna S. Robinson | September 19, 2011
As the U.S. "housing crisis" drags on, it's time to take stock of where we're at and take a closer look at what's really going on out there. There are several points I'd like to make about this market to add some balance to the discussion about what to do and how to "fix" the […]
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Obama Planning Expansion of Home Affordable Refinance Program

By Mike Wheatley | September 13, 2011
More homeowners will be able to make the most of current low interest rates, after the Obama administration announced plans to expand the two-year old Home Affordable Refinance Program. Addressing a joint session in Congress last week, President Obama said that the government would do everything it could to assist “responsible homeowners” in refinancing their […]
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Orlando Realtors Selling Hooterville Style

By Phil Butler | September 10, 2011
It's Saturday morning. I woke up thinking about a great town I lived in once. Then I wondered if Orlando, Florida, heart of the sunshine state, has caught up with the digital revolution. Surely Walt Disney's crowning achievement, buying up a patch of central Florida, has to have led to a sort of East Coast Silicon Valley effect!
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Fed Study: Garnishing Wages Could Reduce Mortgage Defaults by 30%

By Donna S. Robinson | September 8, 2011
A "Working Paper" documenting a study of mortgage default has determined that two possible options for reducing mortgage defaults would be to increase the required down payment to 15% or garnish the wages of defaulting borrowers. The study, written by Juan Carlos Hatchondo, Leonardo Martinez, and Juan M. Sánchez, looks at an aggregate of data […]

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