Pending home sales show a sustained uptrend, rising for four consecutive months with very favorable housing affordability and a first-time buyer tax credit boosting activity, according to the National Association of Realtors. FULL STORY->

Peter L. Mosca shares an excerpt of an interview with several bloggers from Real Estate Investment Club.com: Scott Carson, a full time real estate investor and real estate investment coach, Halle Eavelyn, a specialist in private banking and investing for real estate, loan modifications, short sales, rehabbing homes, pre-construction real estate, and lease options; and Jack Sternberg, 30 years plus of experience and a track record of thousands of successful real estate transactions. FULL STORY-> Like all loan modification attempts, it seems like the banks just don't know how to get out of their own way as honest homeowners attempt to keep their homes. FULL STORY-> Job-loss mortgage insurance is available from a host of sources and policies vary in coverage, cost, benefits and requirements, so you'd better shop around. Here's what you'll have to consider. FULL STORY-> A lot of times people ask columnist Brian Hilliard what they can do to be a better salesperson and more effectively grow their business. Today he shares something each agent can do right now to have a significant impact on their business. FULL STORY-> The 544-unit Alexan CityView, the largest LEED for Homes multifamily community in the country, is officially open with the recent move-in of the first residents of the luxury rental community, according to Richard Murphy, managing director of Trammel Crow Residential (TCR), developer of the property. Alexan CityView, offering studio to three bedroom units, is situated on 297 acres on the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor at 302 Constitution Avenue in Bayonne, New Jersey. FULL STORY-> A reserve study identifies a homeowner association's future repairs and replacements like a snapshot in time. Imagine that you could picture the buildings and grounds as they would be in five, ten, even thirty years. A reserve study acts just like that by estimating the useful life of the common elements and the cost to replace them in the future based on current cost adjusted by inflation. FULL STORY-> Go e-PRO.
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