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Why Zillow Zestimates Are Not Accurate in Massachusetts
Zillow, a leading real estate marketplace, offers a popular feature known as "Zestimate," an estimated market value for homes across the United States.
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We Buy Houses | Sell Your House in Charlotte, North Carolina
We are home buyers who buy houses in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Rock Hill & Fort Mill, South Carolina. Sell a house fast for cash in any condition. Call us!
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Top 10 Mistakes When Selling Your Home
Selling your home can be one of the most exciting times in your life. An opportunity to move to a new location and hopefully make a profit from the sale of your home is important. Before you get too excited about seeing the “Sold” sign out on your lawn there are several common mistakes that many home sellers make.
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What Makes A Home More Valuable – 25 Tips To Increase The Value Before Selling
There are certain things everyone is looking for when house hunting. They make a home more valuable and, as a result, they also increase the price. Some prefer these things to already be present in the space they’re considering to buy while other would rather do them themselves.
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The Chinese take Manhattan: replace Russians as top apartment buyers
For the first time, the Chinese have become the biggest foreign buyers of apartments in Manhattan, real estate brokers estimate, taking the mantle from the Russians.
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China’s Property Bubble Has Already Popped, Report Says
China’s great real-estate bust has begun, says Nomura. A combination of a huge oversupply of housing and a shortage of developer financing is producing a housing market downturn that could drive China’s GDP to less than 6% this year.
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Rent or Buy? The Math Is Changing
Billy Gasparino and Jenna Dillon-Gasparino were savvy enough to wait out the housing boom of a decade ago as renters. Not until 2010, well into the bust, did they buy a house in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles, less than a mile from the beach, for $810,000. Only four years later, the couple see new signs of excess in the housing market and have decided to go back to renting. They are close to a deal to sell their house – for $1.35 million, a cool 67 percent gain.
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The bizarre secret of London’s buried diggers
After excavating your mega-basement in Holland Park, it’s cheaper and easier to leave the JCB entombed down there with the pool, personal cinema and staff quarters.
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The $1 million foldable apartment
This 420-square-foot studio in Manhattan can transform into five different rooms and is on the market for just under $1 million.
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The New York real-estate market is now the premier destination for wealthy foreigners with rubles, yuan, and dollars to hide.
The buyer, an Italian, was in town for a week, with a million or so dollars to spend. We met one Sunday morning at 20 Pine, a Financial District condo building. She wore a red scarf, jangly jewelry, and a pair of lime-green sunglasses perched atop her curly hair, and she told me she would prefer to remain anonymous. Working through a shell company, she was looking to anchor some of her wealth in an advantageous port: New York City.
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Buy a town: Swett, S.D., for sale
Would you like to own an entire town? If you have $400,000, you could be the new owner of Swett, South Dakota.
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Entire Italian Village for Sale on eBay
If you ever wanted a little slice of Italy, here's your chance. An entire alpine village is up for sale on eBay. The auction for the town of Borgata Calsazio, just a few ski runs away from Turin, is real, with a "Buy it Now" price of a mere $333,057.
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Building Will Have a Separate Door for Poor
New York City moved just a little closer to all-out class warfare over the weekend, when the Department of Housing Preservation and Development approved a plan for an Upper West Side condo building with a separate door for the poorer people who are being allowed to live there
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'Professional scammers' refuse to leave Airbnb host's house
If the old saw about houseguests being like fish is true - after a few days they begin to stink - imagine what it must smell like in poor Cory Tschogl's 600-square-foot condo in Palm Springs, California. Tschogl entered into an agreement through the popular Internet site Airbnb to host a man and his brother for a 44-day period from May 25 through July 8. (Airbnb connects travelers looking for low-cost accommodations with locals who in turn rent them rooms in their homes.)
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Airbnb Squatter Says He Would Totally Squat Again, And He Also Hasn't Delivered On A $40,000 Kickstarter
Maksym Pashanin and Denys Pashanin. The man refusing to leave a Palm Springs, California, condo rented through Airbnb has been involved in a number of other questionable activities, including a Kickstarter campaign that raised nearly $40,000 but hasn't delivered the product. He appears to regret nothing, telling Kickstarter backers that he would "squat again."
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How to Make Your Home Stand Out to Buyers
How to Make Your Home Stand Out to Buyers. How can you sell your home fast? Here are several ideas that you probably never thought of.
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Wi-Fi Access Sparks Housing Boom in Pyongyang
Housing prices have skyrocketed in a residential area of Pyongyang where the foreign embassies are located as North Koreans are scrambling to move to that area, expecting to use the embassies’ Wi-Fi, North Korea Intellectuals Solidarity (NKIS) — a Seoul-based think tank — reported on August 6. The world wide web has long been totally banned in North Korea.
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Buffalo Abandoned Homes Selling For $1
Like many cities, Buffalo, New York, is facing a glut of abandoned homes and lots. There are roughly 16,000 vacant lots and 4,500 vacant homes throughout the city.
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Portland homebuyer finds locks changed, home occupied
A Washington man who recently closed on a home in Northeast Portland was shocked to find a family had recently moved in and changed the locks. Rod Nylund said he learned about the occupants, who he assumes are squatters, last week when a contractor he sent to do work at the home called to tell him it was occupied. Nylund called police and confronted the occupants, but said the officer was unable to do anything about it.
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The big “middle class” rip-off: How a short sale taught me rich people’s ethics
So many of us are clueless about business and finance. Here's why that's just the way the investment class likes it
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