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Residential Listings Advertised as Rentals on Craigslist and others:

  April 30th, 2012. Active residential listings are being posted by scam artists to a number of legitimate rental websites, including Hotpad, LiveLovely.com, Trovit.com, RentJungle.com, ChoiceofHomes.com, ebayclassifieds and olx.com. In a recent scam, the scam artist posed as the home owners, and communicated with potential renters via email. They told the renters that they recently ended their contract with their real estate broker, which was why the sign was still in the yard. They asked the potential renters to wire funds to London and said they will receive the key to the home after the money was received.  

NWMLS encourages all listing brokers to follow the…

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Daily Real Estate News | Wednesday, April 25, 2012

24/7 Wall St. recently asked real estate experts and several real estate organizations to weigh in on how sellers can get their house sold at the best price and in the shortest amount of time.

Here’s what they had to say as some of the best ways to get the “sold” sign out this spring:

  1. Pay attention to “curb appeal”:First impressions are critical, and homes with inviting landscapes and…

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Daily Real Estate News | Friday, April 20, 2012  

Living near a high-scoring public school district can raise home values $205,000 higher compared to homes located in neighborhoods with low-scoring school districts, according to a new study by Brookings Institution. Brookings analyzed the nation’s 100 largest metro areas to find the differences between living near a high-scoring public school and a low-performing school.

“We think of public education as being free, and we think of the main divide in education between public and private schools,” Jonathan Rothwell, a senior research analyst at Brookings, told The New York Times. “But it turns out that it’s actually very expensive to enroll your children in a high-scoring public…

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Daily Real Estate News |      Friday, April 20, 2012      

With housing affordability at record highs, real estate professionals are hoping this year’s Nationwide Open House Weekend event will be a big jump-start to the spring buying and selling season for housing markets across the country. The Nationwide Open House Weekend will be held April 28 and 29, in which Brokers and real estate associations across the country and worldwide hold thousands of open houses in their local communities.

Nearly half of home buyers visit open houses during their home search, according to the 2011 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers survey conducted by the National Association of REALTORS®.

The nationwide open house will allow buyers the opportunity…

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"Buyer Ready" Home Shoppers Have Edge as Brokers Report Rise in Multiple Offers

KIRKLAND, Wash. (April 5, 2012) – The housing market in the Puget Sound region is pointing toward a sustainable recovery, according to several brokers who commented on the March activity report from Northwest Multiple Listing Service.

MLS Members reported 9,126 pending sales during March, a year-over-year increase of nearly 21 percent. That total surpassed the previous month by 1,503 transactions (up 19.7 percent). Coupled with shrinking inventory, attractive financing, and rising consumer confidence, the market is becoming more balanced, and even being described by some brokers as "frenzied." Other brokers commented on the "remarkable opportunities for…

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Homes have been selling at the best pace in almost 5 years! Just in the past two weeks we have had four homes sell in only 1 day on market, others in less than a week, and even had one property recieve 13 offers in one weekend..... But these good times for sellers may be short lived....

Experts Warn: It’s Coming ... The signs of the next tide are already taking shape as banks set out to quicken the pace of reviewing backlogs of defaulting loans: Foreclosure starts soared 28 percent in January, according to Lender Processing Services’ report last month. RealtyTrac reported that while overall foreclosures saw a slight drop nationwide in February from January, 21 cities saw large spikes, such as Tampa (increasing 64 percent), Chicago (43 percent) and Miami…

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Written by Andrea Murad - Published April 03, 2012

It's not easy being a home seller in this market. It's even harder for first-time sellers.

Selling a home is one of the biggest financial transactions most people ever do in their lives. And the current real estate market, still plagued with a record number of foreclosures and short sales, can be a challenge for anyone.

"This is a unique market," says Walter Molony, senior public affairs specialist at the National Association of Realtors (NAR). "The real estate market is cyclical in nature, but we've never had an amplification like we've seen in this market. The boom and bust cycle is taking much longer to recover from, although we're beyond the midway point in the recovery."

For first-time home…

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The Cascade Team Real Estate is proud to be a part of the American recovery. 

Good jobs enable people to achieve the American dream of home ownership. And every time a house is built, bought, or sold, jobs are created—lots of them—right here at home.

  • Home sales in this country generate more than 2.5 million private-sector jobs in an average year. For every two homes sold, a job is created.
  • Each home sale touches dozens of different professions.
  • Every home purchased pumps up to $60,000 into the economy over time for furniture, home improvements, and related items.
  • Housing accounts for more than 15% of the Gross Domestic Product, making it a key driver in our national economy.
  • Housing has led this country out of six of the last eight…

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