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Despite the gloom and doom we all hear daily from the news media Traverse City area real estate is moving in a positive direction. A year to year comparison from 2010 to 2011 shows that our local area ( mostly Grand Traverse, Leelanau, Benzie, Antrim,
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Daily Real Estate News | Friday, January 20, 2012 --> Existing-home sales continued on an uptrend in December, rising for three consecutive months and remaining above where they were a year ago, according to the National Association of REALTORS®.
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Starting January 2012 the Traverse Area Association of Realtors will now be offering residential rentals to be posted listed/ posted through our local MLS ( multiple listing service) just homes for sale are. If you are looking for a residential rental
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Daily Real Estate News | Friday, December 30, 2011 --> The “government, the mortgage industry, and forces of nature all shook the housing market in 2011,” according to a recent Time magazine article, which highlights the key issues that had
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Daily Real Estate News | Monday, October 31, 2011 --> Which cities are home buyers targeting the most? Realtor.com recently released its search rankings of 146 metros during the month of September. The following are the 12 most-searched markets last month,
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The 10 Best Places to Retire in 2012 These cities will meet your retirement lifestyle needs and suit your budget By Emily Brandon October 17, 2011 RSS Feed Print Tweet Related Articles In Pictures: The 10 Best Places to Retire in 2012 10 Places to Retire
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Daily Real Estate News | Wednesday, October 12, 2011 --> Home prices mostly held flat in August, increasing a modest 0.1 percent from July to August, according to Zillow’s latest Home Value Index. Two of the nation’s hardest-hit housing markets,
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Daily Real Estate News | Monday, September 12, 2011 --> The National Association of Home Builders is debuting a new economic index that highlights metro areas that are seeing the most improvement in their housing markets. The First American Improving
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Daily Real Estate News | Monday, September 12, 2011 --> With the growth of green building the last decade, green lending has emerged to help finance those often costly “green” upgrades. Dave Porter, with PorterWorks in Stanton, Wash., who
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By Melissa Dittmann Tracey, REALTOR ® Magazine Remodeling a kitchen, bathroom, or other room to increase a home’s value can be a good idea, but home owners need to be careful when undergoing a remodeling task to ensure they don’t fall
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TRAVERSE CITY REAL ESTATE SELLERS TAKE NOTE: So far in 2011 Jon Becker of Century 21 Northland is averages his sellers 11.53% more in sales price of their home than the local MLS average for the area. While the MLS average sales to list price % is 87.87
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Statistics for: Class=SF, VL, CM, MF AND Status=ACT'SLD'PND AND Date Range=01/01/2011-04/30/2011 AND Area=1, 2, 3, 4, 5 AND Board=-1; As Of: 4/26/2011 Active Price Range Number of Listings Average Days On Market 0$ - $19,999 1,102 528 $20,000
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Mortgages for single-family homes that are 90 days or more delinquent declined for the third consecutive month in February, Freddie Mac reports. Delinquencies on single-family homes dropped to 3.78 percent in February from 3.82 percent in January. What’s
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The following Q&A was authored by Brian Westrin, Manager of Legal Affairs, MAR. You may recall reading in past MAR publications that in April of 2008 Attorney General Mike Cox issued a very helpful opinion aimed specifically at clarifying the proper
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For-sale-by-owners are rare nowadays. In fact, the number of FSBOs dropped to record lows over the past year. Unrepresented sellers make up just 11 percent of the market, down from 13 percent in 2009, according to the 2010 National Association of REALTORS®
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