Maryland Housing Prices, Recent Homes Sales and Comparative Values
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Washington, August 24, 2010 Existing-home sales were sharply lower in July following expiration of the home buyer tax credit but home prices continued to gain, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Existing-home sales1, which are completed transactions that include single-family, townhomes, condominiums and co-ops, dropped 27.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of [...]
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Washington, July 28, 2010 The restoration of the single-family rural housing program that would guarantee home loans for rural buyers was passed by the Senate today and is on its way to President Obama. The National Association of Realtors® has vigorously lobbied to restore funding for the rural program since last March, and hailed this [...]
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RISMEDIA, July 29, 2010—Property owners prepared with research and information can save thousands of dollars on their property taxes. Following the simple steps outlined by Barry Sharpe, President of South Florida-based Property Tax Appeal Group (P-Tag), one can help property owners keep money in their pockets and assess property values on target. Once a property [...]
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May 12, 2010 – Builder confidence in the mature-housing market remained weak, according to 2010 first-quarter data from the National Association of Home Builders’ 55+ Housing Market Index (55+ HMI) – a quarterly survey of the association’s builder members engaged in the production of mature-market housing. “The 55+ segment of the market is still stalled [...]
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May 18, 2010 – Nationwide housing starts rose 5.8 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 672,000 units in April as the deadline for an important home buyer tax incentive arrived, according to figures released today by the U.S. Commerce Department. “While some of the starts activity noted in today’s report reflected homes for [...]
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May 20, 2010 – Nationwide housing, bolstered by favorable interest rates and low house prices, hovered for the fifth consecutive quarter near its highest level of affordability since the series was first compiled 19 years ago, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index (HOI) released today. The HOI showed that [...]
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RISMEDIA, July 29, 2010—According to Nielsen, U.S. Mobile Web increased 4% in January 2010 from 67 million users to 69.6 million users. However, more important than how many people are using the Mobile Web is for how long they are using it. The average user session increased from 4 minutes, 57 seconds to 5 minutes, [...]
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RISMEDIA, July 29, 2010—Reflective of the real estate buyers’ market conditions in many regions in the U.S., satisfaction with real estate companies among home buyers has improved from 2009, while satisfaction among home sellers has declined, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Home Buyer/Seller Study. The study, now in its third year, measures [...]
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From the Baltimore Sun today we have this … Renting a home or apartment that’s wending its way through the foreclosure process? The Public Justice Center in Baltimore is holding monthly workshops to explain your legal rights, from how long you can stay to details on negotiating a “cash-for-keys” deal with the owner’s lender.
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July 26, 2010 – Coming off an historic low in May, sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 23.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 330,000 units in June, according to U.S. Commerce Department data released today. “Today’s numbers are an encouraging sign that new-home sales are coming back from an expected slow [...]
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