United States – MANY buyers today — unsure whether prices have gone as low as they will go — aren’t looking for just a good deal. They’re looking for a steal. For sellers, that means that to create even the slightest frisson to lure in buyers, they must either price their homes at distressingly low prices [...]

Weigh Your Own Interests Against Brokers’ Boosterism. At what point does the real estate industry’s penchant for boosterism — and the sunny outlook that comes naturally to any good salesman — get in the way of buyers and sellers looking for guidance they can trust? For Chris de Brey and his fiancee, Kim Martin, that inherent conflict [...]

Interesting Real Estate Video. “Each month, This Month in Real Estate provides expert opinion and analysis on real estate trends across the nation”. Keller Williams Realty Watch Video Source: Youtube Christian Maldonado Equipo Veo y Alquilo – Colombia Sitio Web: http://www.veoyalquilo.com Noticias Actualidad Inmobiliaria: http://www.veoyalquilo.com/blog Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wall.php?id=39141806204 MSN: contacto@veoyalquilo.com

United States – Sure happy it’s Thursday to share my Three Cents Worth on Curbed, at the intersection of neighborhood and real estate. This week I am reminded that if  I place more than two lines on a chart, nobody cares. Source: Matrix – U.S.A.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Sofia, a 34-year-old Frenchwoman, moved here a year ago to take a job in advertising, so confident about Dubai’s fast-growing economy that she bought an apartment for almost $300,000 with a 15-year mortgage. Now, like many of the foreign workers who make up 90 percent of the population here, she has [...]

Question: My friend’s mother passed away, and now the landlord is trying to evict him from her apartment, which is rent controlled. She and he had started the paperwork to add him to the lease, but she died before it was completed. While she was sick, he took care of the rent. Is there anything he [...]

Question: Recent electrical alterations in my building have revealed that I was illegally charged for 45 years for power consumed by other users. Con Edison estimates my loss at about $400 a year for those 45 years. What is my recourse?

Some readers may think this story is apocryphal but I swear it’s not. Kathleen and Jeff are just moving into one half of a semi-detached house in Toronto’s High Park neighbourhood and Julie and Chris are still unpacking boxes in the other. By complete fluke, both couples happened to spend a few months this year [...]

Articulo en Español e Ingles. Article in Spanish and English. El Real Estate Connect  es el primer evento inmobiliario del que hablaremos este año. Este evento inmobiliario iniciara hoy 7 de Enero y terminara en dos dias, el 9 de enero 2009. Real Estate Connect es la reunión anual de las noticias de Inman, esta vez en [...]

WHEN it comes to mortgage rates, 2008 may be remembered as the year the market went haywire. Near the start of the year, some long-term mortgages were around 6 percent, but by July the average rate approached 7 percent. In October, rates surged by half a percentage point during one seven-day period, then dropped by the [...]