Sky-High Loses Altitude In Gerhard Andlinger’s recently listed apartment at the Time Warner Center, high above Columbus Circle, one can sit on the Louis XVI daybed and look past the Chinese screens and the Louise Nevelson sculpture at a 14-foot-high wall of windows with priceless views of the city and its sagging real estate market. …
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Scheme gives distressed properties to squatters
Scheme gives distressed properties to squatters Law enforcement investigators in San Diego and Riverside counties have uncovered a brazen real estate scheme in which individuals are claiming ownership of distressed homes by filing official-looking grant deeds with county recorder offices. The perpetrators then move people into the vacant homes, in some cases, by hiring a …
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Foreclosed houses boost existing-home sales in Orlando area [Central Florida]
Foreclosed houses boost existing-home sales in Orlando area [Central Florida] Darhlene Zeanwick is in the thick of the region’s record blizzard of home foreclosures, brokering sales for banks and helping prospective buyers look for bargains. “About 38 percent of all homes on the market for sale in Poinciana are in some state of foreclosure, such …
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Meet the competition
Meet the competition Shielded from the equatorial sun beneath an umbrella, Jim and Carol Lynch reflect on their unusual decision to move from the small town of Fayetteville, Tenn., to a suburb of this Costa Rican capital. “Look around you, man,” Jim Lynch says. “This place is beautiful.” They are among a small but growing …
Trading Down Is the New Real Estate Reality
Trading Down Is the New Real Estate Reality Half a million dollars is, by almost any standard, a lot of money. But during the past few years, when credit was easy and regulations were loose, to many Americans it didn’t seem like all that much. That’s because they were able to borrow huge amounts of …
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Joe Adams: Law says very little about association board decisions by e-mail
Joe Adams: Law says very little about association board decisions by e-mail Q: Please advise as to what decisions our association board members can make by e-mail. C.M. (via e-mail) A: Obviously, e-mail has become a permanent part of our society’s way of communicating with each other. Unfortunately, the laws for community associations do not …
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