Maryland Housing Prices, Recent Homes Sales and Comparative Values
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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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July 20, 2010 – Single-family housing starts were virtually unchanged from the previous month at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 454,000 units in June, according to newly released figures by the U.S. Commerce Department. Meanwhile, a 21.5 percent decline on the more volatile multifamily side weighed down the overall housing production number, which fell [...]
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July 19, 2010 – Builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes declined for a second consecutive month in July to its lowest level since April of 2009, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) released today. The HMI fell two points from a downwardly revised number [...]
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July 8, 2010 – A coalition of housing industry groups joined the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) today in announcing plans to file a lawsuit against the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for removing the “opt-out” provision from its Lead: Renovation, Repair and Painting rule. The Lead: Renovation, Repair and Painting rule (LRRP) applies [...]
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From the Baltimore Sun today we have this … Having heard what he called a “test run” of Baltimore’s discriminatory lending claim against Wells Fargo on Monday, a federal judge said he will rule within days on whether the civil case can proceed to discovery – a process that could reveal the inner workings of [...]
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From the Washington Post today we have this … Even with a budget of $1,000 or less, sellers are not priced out of making improvements that can help their home stand out among the competition.
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