Real Estate Blog

The September issue of California Real Estate, official magazine of the California Association of Realtors

The economy continues to send mixed messages — some encouraging for real estate, some not — but this week the positive are edging out the negatives.

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Real Estate Outlook: Prices Stabilizing

It’s no secret in Washington that RESPA reform — that’s the acronym for the real estate settlement rules that govern all home sales and financings — is a hot potato that nobody seems able to handle.

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Washington Report: Industry Critics and RESPA

There were no dry eyes today at the celebration/ceremony marking the raising of the walls of the first four homes in Habitat for Humanity’s “Homes for Heroes and Foundation for Families” neighborhood in San Juan Capistrano. Homes for Heroes is a pilot project for Habitat. Fourteen of the 27 homes to be built on a 2.7 acre site here will be marketed both to combat-disabled veterans and their families and to the surviving families of deceased veterans. It is anticipated that this program will be continued throughout other parts of the country.

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Realtors Join in Building Homes for Heroes

It is no secret that the real estate industry has an ambivalent relationship with the news media. On the one hand, real estate agents and real estate companies spend substantial amounts of money placing advertising in various news media. This remains true even in the face of a significant shift of advertising efforts to the Web.

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Realtors Push Back Against Negative News Spin

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