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Home prices may be leveling [Southwest Florida] Southwest Florida’s sagging housing market showed signs of stabilization in November, with Sarasota-Bradenton agents selling twice as many existing single-family homes as Miami and with prices perking up from fall lows. “Our area was inflated for so long,” said Garrick Newman, a Re/Max agent in Bradenton. “But over …
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The Gardner Family Joann Gardner admits to feeling overwhelmed. Along with providing care each day for her elderly parents and 4-year-old great-niece, she worries about losing the family home. “I don’t know from one day to the next what’s going to happen,” she said. Gardner, an outgoing woman with a warm demeanor, seems increasingly deflated …
New York City real estate market immune to malaise; home values rise again None of the bad news about the U.S. housing market has seemed to matter to the big spenders lining up to buy homes and apartments in New York City. The average sales price for a Big Apple dwelling climbed to $782,000 (€531,178) …
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Move to new state, update the wills Q:My elderly parents (dad is 90, mom is 86) had been living in Florida for the past 20 years, but due to bad health, I moved them to California. Do they need to change their wills or do the provisions still apply “as is?” I have power of …
You didn’t buy in ’07 As revelers bring in the new year, the residential real estate scene looks more like the day after, with sellers suffering from a bad case of overindulgence and regrets that usually follow a really good party. The question is whether that will make 2008 the year of opportunity for buyers, …
Real estate projection called doom d’jour Local agents disagree with gloomy report The Punta Gorda/Port Charlotte/North Port area will see the greatest decline in home prices in the nation before its real estate market turns around in the spring of 2009. At least, that prediction was cited in a Wall Street Journal article published Thursday. …
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