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- 11/22/2005 - Commercial Real Estate News
Communications Firm Inks 15,000-SF Lease at 99 Bedford St.
BOSTON-The Pohly Co. will expand its offices by 6,000 sf when it moves next month into 99 Bedford St. under a five-year lease deal. It will be the third move for the firm in the last several years. - 11/22/2005 - Real Estate News
Overnight real estate rates come down
Long-term mortgage interest rates continued to fall Monday, and the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond yield dipped to 4.46 percent. The 30-year fixed-rate average sank to 5.8 percent, and the 15-year fixed-rate slipped to 5.38 percent. The 1-year adjust... - 11/22/2005 - Real Estate News
Seller seeks best way to finance replacement home
DEAR BOB: I will be retiring at the end of the year when I will move to another state. In January, I will put my condo on the market for sale. It should bring about $325,000. With the proceeds from the sale, I want to pay cash to buy a patio-garden home f... - 11/22/2005 - Real Estate News
Upgrading, replacing smoke alarms minimizes hazards
Dear Barry, We are currently remodeling our home and would like to upgrade the smoke alarm system to comply with current fire safety standards. This may not be required for an older home, but we'd like to do it anyway. Additionally, we want to install car... - 11/22/2005 - Real Estate News
How to make money on real estate foreclosures
Reviewing "How to Make Money on Foreclosures" by attorney Denise L. Evans is a book reviewer's nightmare because portions are brilliant, but other sections are downright wrong or at least misleading. In other words, the book is "uneven." For example, alth... - 11/22/2005 - Real Estate News
Washington Mutual shutting El Paso site
Washington Mutual, which bought credit card issuer Providian Financial Corp. last month for $6.1 billion, is closing a former Providian call center in El Paso, Texas, cutting as many as 371 jobs, the San Antonio Express-News reported today. The layoffs... - 11/22/2005 - Real Estate News
Real estate developer buys thousands of acres near Las Vegas
Gary Cavender, president of Standard Pacific's Las Vegas division, stated in the announcement, "We are extremely pleased to be involved with this project. We have teamed with four other companies who are each well established in the Las Vegas market. Add... - 11/22/2005 - Real Estate News
Survey reveals Americans' ignorance of real estate loan options
More than half (52 percent) of all U.S. homeowners said they were not at all or only somewhat knowledgeable about the mortgage options available to them at the time they purchased their homes, according to a survey conducted by Harris Interactive on beh... - 11/22/2005 - Real Estate News
Mortgage company launches for-sale-by-partnership program
A mortgage company in Houston offers free brokerage assistance to home sellers in exchange for access to potential buyers. Paragon Residential has participated in about a dozen real estate transactions under this new program, called For Sale By Partners... - 11/22/2005 - Real Estate News
New cell phone offers speedy online connection
"Agents can access the Internet to check for the latest listings" via wireless MLS providers, because the device has wireless connectivity, Gaunt said. Another snappy feature for agents: Global Positioning Systems. It's possible for an agent to get direc...