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Buying homes through short sales can lead to long waits Jamie Schmitt and Valerie Azinheira liked the two-bedroom house in San Francisco’s Merced Heights. It was near a nice park where their 3-year-old son, Gabriel, could play. They made a no-contingency offer for the full $629,000 listing price on June 20. Then they waited. And …
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‘Escrow’ has at least two meanings in real estate Q: I used to live in California where the word “escrow” referred to the closing of a real estate sale. For example, we said, “We’re in escrow for the sale of our house.” But then I moved to Florida where the term “escrow” seems to have …
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Miami condo units to be auctioned [South Florida] Panoramic views of Biscayne Bay. A short distance to the Carnival Center and downtown Miami. Living in the heart of Miami’s emerging Edgewater neighborhood. It’s all yours — for auction next month inside a Marriott Hotel ballroom. In what may preview the straits the ailing South Florida …
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Investors Compare Manhattan Buildings With T-Bills The tightening of underwriting standards and of the availability of capital seems not to have affected sales of residential apartment buildings across the five boroughs, as some had feared. The Katz family is the owner of two prize residential apartment houses on Park Avenue, including the 20-story, 116-unit rental …
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Anxious home builders pile on incentives With the housing market looking increasingly frail, home builders and real-estate agents are going to new extremes to attract buyers, dangling lavish incentives and slashing prices. In Boca Raton, Fla., Gordon Homes is offering to pay two years of property taxes and insurance – worth as much as $150,000 …
Is this your last chance to get rich in real estate? Several months ago Silvia Cuevas took stock of her life, and it was a profoundly unsettling experience. At 40 she had a solid job with a modest salary at the public library in Santa Ana, Calif. She’d carefully squirreled away some savings and bought …
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