There's no question in this contest buyer's win.  Buyers snap foreclosed properties left and right. That's just the reality here on the ground on foreclosed properties: if they're decent, clean, and well priced it would sell first over their competition, that is the other type ...

With examples from real life -first, get in just under the wire and buy a house for $757,500 in June 2006, right as the market is starting it's downward slide-13 months later, after the slowdown has had some time to really take hold, list the house for $925,000, or 22% more than you paid (buyers ha...

Because as I look around I'm having a hard time understanding why people would set themselves up for failure and list their homes at prices that offer little to no chance of actually selling them. This struck me yesterday when I saw a home listed for sale  - a bright cheerful new listing for a nice...

I haven't gotten one of these since the RAh-Rah days so, when an offer I'd submitted the other day was rejected, you can imagine my surprise. And the offer wasn't one of those 30-40% under-list low-balls, it was within 15% of the list price, the original and as yet never-reduced list price. The sell...

Strathearn is east of downtown Edmonton and south of the North Saskatchewan River. The neighbourhoods closest to Strathearn are Cloverdale, Forest Heights, Holyrood, and Bonnie Doon.   Two of the original landholders in Strathearn were J. McKernan, Edmonton's first telegraph operator, and W. Bird ...

Citigroup and JP Morgan Suspend Foreclosure Both Citigroup Inc. (C: 3.58 -0.83%) and JP Morgan Chase (JPM: 25.2804 -3.47%) announced Friday they have enacted temporary foreclosure moratoriums. Green Depot: Another Signal 'Eco' is Moving Mainstream On Thursday an “eco-Home Depot� opened in Manhat...

Three development got foreclosed. They're the victims of free falling market. These are large tracts of (residentia)l land development combined on the auction block for more than 867 acres. The three communities listed on Tranzon's website are located in Loudoun County. One of the communitie...

The people that own this house are about to find out. In 2006 they paid $965,000 for it and, afraid of losing it I suppose, snapped it up on the very first day it came on the market. That was back then. Now, or now as in 4 weeks ago, they listed it for sale for $985,000. But so far no one's snapped ...

This week, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) provided their latest estimate of annual existing home sales for 2009 again revising down their 2009 total year sales forecast to 5.11 million units. As usual, the latest forecast comes with another dose of truly ridiculous spin. In an effort to ...

You want to know when market will rebound? Check this out. It's no crystal ball prediction just market insight from Standard and Poor's. The 5 key drivers to housing recovery, via Businessweek: 1. Buyers' confidence in their jobs and income levels; 2. Ease of housing price declines to ma...