All of a sudden, you’re $8,000 closer to the American Dream.

Uncle Sam, with the help of President Barack Obama, just made it easier to buy foreclosures by allowing first-time homebuyers to use an $8,000 tax credit for a down payment or other closing costs. Best of all, the $8,000 doesn’t have to be repaid. Read the rest of this entry »

Folks – check out this article written by my friend, Bobby Middleton, from VIP Realty in San Antonio, Texas. He is a successful and dedicated Realtor who knows what he is talking about.  Get your pencils ready, class! Read the rest of this entry »

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Realtors and real estate agents understand this trick extremely well. Do not hesitate to steal this valuable tidbit of knowledge. The secret is simply this: provide your potential clients and customers information they will need if they were to live in the dwelling you are selling them…
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Barnes & Noble is scaling back its real-estate ambitions for the rest of the year, posing another problem for the revenue-starved book industry.

Mark Walsh, the executive who loaded Lehman with toxic property investments, is part of a group that will take over the bankrupt firm's real-estate private-equity arm.

The billions in first-mortgage debt that helped finance Lichtenstein's buyout of the Extended Stay Hotels chain included a so-called bad-boy provision to discourage a bankruptcy filing.

Federal regulators repeatedly expressed concern with Downey Financial's risk management and high concentration of risky mortgage loans before the bank's failure.

The bankruptcy filing by Fontainebleau stands to have a harmful impact on the Las Vegas construction industry already struggling with unemployment.

As other real-estate companies sell stock to raise capital, Macerich is betting that it can do better for its shareholders by selling stakes in some of its malls.

General Growth Properties has closed Century Plaza Mall in Birmingham, but the mall owner says the shutdown isn't related to its bankruptcy filing.