Foreclosed Homes for Sale at Foreclosure Auctions

Foreclosures up, home sales down
Despite the high number of foreclosed properties flooding the housing market right now, both banks and builders in some cases are finding it impossible to sell houses. Reuters reports: “U.S. lenders and builders are turning to professional auctioneers to help them unload the unwanted real estate [...]

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Stock Loans Combine Best of Both Markets

Secured stock loans allow buyers to snap up tempting real estate deals
These are tempting times for real estate bargain hunters. Unfortunately, many investors have money tied up in dwindling stock portfolios, and the best way to recover those losses may be to leave the money right where it is. [...]

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Designer Home Tending | Get More Money for your House

Designer Home tenders help you sell

If you are moving but have not yet sold your house, Designer Home Tending could help you sell your home more quickly and for a higher price.
Designer Home Tending provides a home tender who will provide several services, including home improvement and interior design work. [...]

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House Fluffing on a Budget | Making the Bathroom Modern

Clean, Bright, and Modern
Housing markets are tough for sellers right now. One of the best things you can do to attract a buyer is make sure your bathrooms are clean, bright, and modern. Start by cleaning, but remember that cleaning to attract a buyer may not be as [...]

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House Fluffing on a Budget | The Kitchen

The house is on the market
The market is a tough place for any house today.  Professional staging can give a house big advantages when it comes to attracting buyers.  But unfortunately, many homeowners can’t afford the services of a professional real estate staging artist, especially right now.
The kitchen is often [...]

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General Growth Properties | Largest Real Estate Bankruptcy

General Growth generally isn’t
Another giant has fallen in the recession forest. All the king’s cash advance and all the king’s quick payday loans couldn’t put them back together again. Stick in your thumb and pull out some debt relief.
Daniel Taub and Brian Louis report for Bloomberg that Real Estate investment [...]

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Wolf Block Law Firm Votes to Dissolve Company

Closing shop after more than a century
One of Philadelphia’s premier law firms, 106-year-old Wolf Block, has decided to call it quits.
Real estate makes up  the firm’s core practice, and the effects of the housing crisis on the firm convinced them to let the firm dissolve.
More financial trouble
Wolf Block also says [...]

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Could Short-Term Loans Help Boost Home’s Selling Price?

Getting the best price in a bad market
One of the tests for when it’s OK to get short-term loans is whether they can actually help you  make money.
Now is a terrible time to have to sell your home, as values for housing have sunk so low. But life happens, and [...]

The way your home looks from the outside can greatly add to its selling price.

Despite widespread payday loans, home sales rise in West

While many in the nation take out payday loans in effort to repair credit following the mortgage crisis, lower prices in the West are pushing home sales up.

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Existing-home sales have increased nearly 18 percent over November 2007 in the western U.S., a region that includes [...]

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Quick Payday Loans for the Golden State’s Government

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is asking for quick payday loans to pump up his state’s budget, in the wake of a cash shortage.  His state budget needs some emergency funds or careful budgeting in order to keep the whole state from going bankrupt.  According to this article, from the San [...]