Jan
5
2008 Year In Review: Working Through the Pain with Little Prospect of Gain
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The wild ride from business boom to real estate bust ended abruptly in 2008, leaving many in commercial real estate, and in several other industries, with a bad case of whiplash — aggravated by the extensive shoe gazing over what might have been if the…
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Jan
5
Master Planned Developments are in Demand in Atlanta Real Estate
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Master planned communities are experiencing tremendous growth - even in the slow real estate market. If you look at the best selling communities in metro-Atlanta, almost all of them are master-planned developments. And there really seems to be good reason behind it. Master-planned communities are suburbia’s response to the boring, cookie-cutter, detached globs of housing that still make up much of America’s suburban nation. They offer numerous amenities without losing the lower-density, suburban feel that attracted so many people to the suburbs in the first place. Residents get a “city inside a city” feel and neighbors that they genuinely feel connected to in some fashion.
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Jan
5
More regulation ahead?
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Survey respondents hope industry takes lead in policing itself
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Jan
5
Amityville Horror
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A couple and two children who rented a house in Amityville, New York are lucky to be alive after a gas explosion flattened their home Sunday night, destroying all their…
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Jan
5
Fashion trends for brick and mortar
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Essay: Roadmap to Recovery
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Jan
5
Use your network as a support net
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Realtor Notebook
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Jan
5
Americans are staying put more then ever, but when they do move many of them do so for housing-related reasons, say, to buy a new home or find a better neighborhood.
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Jan
5
It stormed onto the scene in 2006 and came of age in 2007, but not until 2008 did green building truly legitimize itself in commercial real estate.In a year where little else went right in the property industry, green building shined. Retaining all…
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Jan
5
It’s shaping up to be one of real estate’s surprise hot potato issues for 2009: Who chooses appraisers when houses are sold and financed?
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Jan
5
HOA Welcome Committee
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Homeowner associations were fashioned after the villages of an earlier time where leadership consisted of a volunteer mayor and council. HOAs today have a similar volunteer board of directors. The complexion of the village has changed, but the organization is pretty much the same. The biggest challenge is how to get volunteers to serve.
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