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Small Boutique Residential Real Estate Company located in the New Orleans area. Individualized service..
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2008
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When reading and learning about real estate on the internet please make sure that the information is current. I have several contractors, landscappers, attorney's, mortgage brokers that I work with and I have alarm installers, exterminators and lots of other people that I have met over the year...
01/30/2008
The Westchester County, New York 4th quarter and year end market report and statistics came out today and some of the highlights are:Single family and condo sales volume was up 2%Co-op sales declined by 7 unitsMulti family sales declined by 38%9022 units or 1.6% less than 2006Median sales pric...
01/29/2008
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"Stockton is a city of 280,000 people in the Central Valley; 80 miles east of San Francisco and 80 miles north of San Jose. In many ways, this is ground zero for the current financial crisis and a microcosm of everything that went wrong. A few years ago, it was one of the hottest real estate mar...
01/27/2008
Over the past month a reporter for the New York Times has been commuting all over the tri state of New York to get a glimpse into what commuting in this area is like. 18 trips in the last month and he will do a few more over the next week.He has found that some people find their commute to be th...
01/25/2008
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We have a buyers market in Westchester County. It is a stronger buyer's market in some communities than in others but a buyer's market none the less. We are seeing price reductions, some large price reductions coming through. More and more throughout Westchester County I see agents travelling ...
01/24/2008
Taking the global spotlight for its economic efforts, Westchester County has been named one of the Top Seven Intelligent Communities of the Year by The Intelligent Community Forum (ICF), a non-profit international think tank that focuses on job creation and economic development in the broadband...
01/22/2008
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I a sitting watching the Today Show and they are doing a segment titled "Cybersnitching". A nice young man bought an apartment in New York City and discovered a bit too late that his neighers are rotten. So he started a website www.rottenneighbor.com which is apparently getting loads of hits.Ba...
01/21/2008
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So, if a real estate company sells lots of homes and has a market share does that make the company a better company? Or is it that the company has the most amount of agents. Companies are always recruiting and invest quite a bit in training. Studies show that 80% of agents decide not to continue ...
01/21/2008
This article appeared in the New York Times this morning. In the past when market declines have occurred real estate agents/brokers had been working for the sellers in real estate transactions. This is the first decline where quite a few agents represented the buyer. So, a couple out in Califo...
01/21/2008
One of the school websites I have had on my site and blogs has been the one form Standard and Poor's. You could look up school district statistics, data on test scores, student-teacher ratios etc. The public requested more information, not just statistics. So, Standard and Poor's partnered with...
01/20/2008
