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	Your news. Delivered. The week's most popular industry news: Real Estate See the Latest Headlines » Powered by + Real Estate Cheaper to buy than rent in 78% of major cities - inman.com Trulia: Dropping prices and rising rents boost affordability. It is cheaper to buy a home than to rent one in 39 of the nation's 50 largest cities, according to a quarterly report released today by real estate search and... 143 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Pending Home Sales Rise Again in March - realtor.org March saw another increase in pending home sales, with contract activity rising unevenly in six of the past nine months, according to the National Association of Realtors®. 98 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Camden Property Trust posts improved 1Q results - Forbes.com - forbes.com 10 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Bank of America Said to Target Individual States to Block Foreclosure Deal - bloomberg.com Bank of America Corp. was accused by a top official at the Iowa attorney general’s office of engaging in a divide-and-conquer strategy by undermining support for the settlement of a nationwide probe into foreclosure practices,... 48 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share NAR: resale real estate prices to fall 2% in 2011 - inman.com Pending Home Sales Index rises 5% in March. A National Association of Realtors index that tracks pending sales of existing homes rose 5.1 percent in March but dropped 11.4 percent compared to the same month last year. Also... 50 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share See the Latest Headlines » Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. © 2011, LinkedIn Corporation

Happy Easter!

Well, Easter is over, a beautiful day enjoying the Lord's goodness. Early church, then relaxed the rest of the day  We are between our home restoration projects right now, made an offer on one but not accepted yet, so time to plan what to do to my own home!  We will see how long that lasts, probably til the next project starts!

This will be a good week, I can feel it, and only 3 weeks til vacation. Riviera Maya here we come!  Can't wait....

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	Hola! The week's most popular industry news: Real Estate See the Latest Headlines » Powered by + Real Estate Existing-Home Sales Rise in March 2011 - rismedia.com RISMEDIA, April 21, 2011—Sales of existing-home sales rose in March 2011, continuing an uneven recovery that began after sales bottomed last July, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. Existing-home sales, which are co 41 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Housing starts, building permits both take a jump in March - usatoday.com Builders broke ground on more new homes last month, giving the weak housing market a boost at the start of the spring buying season. 47 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Analysts Weigh in on NAR's Existing-Home Sales Report - dsnews.com The National Association of Realtors reported Wednesday that sales of previously owned homes rose 3.7 percent last month, following the 9.6 drop recorded in February. The results were slightly better than forecast, but reaction... 37 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share February home prices stabilize as market readies for spring: FNC - housingwire.com 10 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Discounters down, but not out - inman.com Full-service brokerage model going strong in downturn. The full-service real estate brokerage model has emerged from the downturn largely intact, defying expectations that traditional companies would face stiff competition... 50 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share See the Latest Headlines » Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. © 2011, LinkedIn Corporation

Out with the Old, In with the New

Today is one of those days, our latest project house is sold, closed today. Started taking out the furniture and accessories tonight.  We didn't keep this one long enough to get attached, or should I say, to get tired of it and wish it would sell. Not that I am not glad that it sold, just seems like yesterday we were setting it up and decorating it, today we are taking it all out.  Oh, well,  great project, good end. Can't ask for more.

Also, made an offer on another project, if it is accepted, we will have the next project.  Otherwise, still looking...

Working hard to get everyone taken care of for Easter, tomorrow is Good Friday. Two more projects, and then off for the weekend.  Downtime...

What a great week!!

We had a very eventful week.  Monday we moved the last of staging furniture from our Aurora project, as the house closed on Monday!  YAY!  Then we installed carpet for the owners of Aurora in their new home on Tuesday and ordered new light fixtures after finalizing selections.  There will be lots of new and exciting things to come for them and I am very much looking forward to that.

Thursday and Friday we had Hunter Douglas Premieres training, lots of new and exciting products.  Won great door prizes which will help us to better display the beautiful new Ribbon Drapery on a decorative pole. Can't wait to order the samples for our showroom of this new product. And a digital photo frame with professional photography will help even more!  Our son Matt also attended and will be selling in the Houston area very soon...

More to come....

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	Grab a cup of coffee, let's read the news The week's most popular industry news: Real Estate See the Latest Headlines »   Powered by + Real Estate Banks are foreclosing while homeowners pursue loan modifications - latimes.com Mortgage lenders call it "dual tracking," but for homeowners struggling to avoid foreclosure, it might go by another name: the double-cross. 27 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Moody's: U.S. CMBS Loan Delinquencies Slip to 9.16% - dsnews.com The delinquency rate on loans included in U.S. commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) conduit/fusion transactions inched down 2 basis points in March to 9.16 percent, Moody’s Investors Service reported Thursday. More... 15 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Foreclosure filings at 2-year low - inman.com RealtyTrac data shows 'robo signing' fallout in some states. Continued fallout from the "robo signing" controversy saw loan servicers throttle back foreclosure filings during the first quarter to their lowest level in two... 70 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Foreclosures continue to trend down in first quarter 2011 - money.cnn.com Foreclosures fell during the first quarter of the year, but they'll be back. 53 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Proposed federal rules would drive many out of market for home loans - washingtonpost.com Proposed mortgage standards could deflate the dreams of many first-time and moderate-income buyers. 30 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share   See the Latest Headlines » Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. © 2011, LinkedIn Corporation

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	Newsy goodness The week's most popular industry news: Real Estate See the Latest Headlines »   Powered by + Real Estate Treasury: Nearly 4,500 HAFA Short Sales and Deeds-in-Lieu Completed - dsnews.com Treasury released a new report on the government’s foreclosure prevention efforts Friday. In addition to the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) numbers that are regularly recounted, new this month are details on short... 70 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Urban Areas See Jump in Young Buyers - realtor.org In more than two-thirds of the country's largest cities, the young, college-educated population in the past decade has grown twice as fast within three miles of the urban center as in the rest of the city's metro area. 50 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Wells Fargo's John Stumpf: How to fix the mortgage mess - money.cnn.com As Washington moves to restructure Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, lawmakers must make clear once and for all the government's role in the home mortgage market. 121 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share The foreclosure mess isn’t going away - Yahoo! News - news.yahoo.com We've told you before about how big banks cut corners on paperwork over the last few years in order to speed struggling homeowners into foreclosure. And a "60 Minutes" report that aired last night offers fresh anecdotal... 125 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Completed Foreclosures Down by Nearly 50% Among Largest Servicers - dsnews.com The nation’s largest mortgage servicers foreclosed on 95,067 homes during the fourth quarter of 2010, a 49 percent drop from the number of completed foreclosures during the previous quarter, according to a new report from two... 63 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share   See the Latest Headlines » Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. © 2011, LinkedIn Corporation