Hopeful homeowners.(REAL ESTATE)

Florida Resident Joins TIC 1031 Exchange Firm, Offering Investors Coast-to-Coast Coverage LOS ANGELES -- PropPoint, a Los Angeles-based firm specializing in Tenant-in-Common (TIC) 1031 exchanges, today announced that Scott Bjornson has joined the company as vice president to lead the growing firm's expansion into Florida and the southeastern United States....

HEADNOTE Abstract This study uses an autoregressive process to model a city-wide house price index. The model is used to produce one-quarter ahead forecasts for individual properties. We propose that managers use a battery of tests to compare prediction errors (PEs); in particular, their empirical distribution reveals important information. HEADNOTE ......

In the past, the 20-something demographic often was overlooked as a viable market for the pool and spa industry. They lived in apartments, drove hand-me-down ears and had no money for the finer things in life. However, that was then. This is now. Nearly 40 percent of individuals aged 25 ......

Perhaps the most distinctive among the alternative environments to accommodate aging is the model known as senior cohousing. Unlike the famous "commune" movement of the 1960s, these communities do not share income and are more organized, complex, upscale, and (definitely) older in the age spectrum. The Danish concept of cohousing ......

HEADNOTE ABSTRACT.This paper examines housing price trends and prediction, of homeowners and potential home buyers, and establishes an independent index (the BRE Index) based on longitudinal telephone surveys collected. The Index, first of this kind in Hong Kong, measures price expectations and benchmarks the level of housing actors' confidence in ......

Carl Vice , general manager Casual Living & Patio Center Lexington, Ky. It's going to be a steady increase. I think the housing market that has somewhat flattened will propel again when spring rolls around and it's going to help retailers sell all types of products that go into home ......

The Northern Colorado residential real estate market is striking a defiant note. Despite news of ailing metro-area real estate markets and slumping state and national economies, the continued optimism in the Northern Colorado economy shows in building-permit and home-sales numbers. Year-to-date residential building-permit numbers are up or holding steady for ......

Host Hattie Bryant of Small Business School interviews Brent Beck and Harry Rosenthal of Sundance Catalog, a catalog company based ......

Host Hattie Bryant of Small Business School interviews former small business owners: Tracy Myers of the Advertising Arts College, Bob ......

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When selecting an agent, look for that all important referral from friends and family. There is no stronger endorsement of an agent's abilities than a satisfied past client.

A friend was talking about her adjustable rate mortgage, and how she had checked into moving it over into a conventional fixed rate...

If real estate is crashing, it isn't making much of a difference in Orange County, California!

For the last six years, American homeowners have spent with reckless abandon as they perceived growth in their homeowner´s equity. They didn't spend actual cash, but rather added to their credit card debt. The growth has stopped. The debt remains. Consumer optimism is about to screech to a halt. Brace ......