County auctioning houses, lots.
But that real estate will be inexpensive at Berrien County”s sale of tax-foreclosed property Sept. 15, offering those with modest means a shot at home ownership.Three people were able to buy their first houses at the treasurer”s July auction, and county Treasurer Bret Witkowski hopes to see more such sales.’It”s a silver lining in what is not an easy thing,’ he said. .more

EnergizedSeller Offers Informational Booklets to Champions School.
The informational booklets of EnergizedSeller are now available to the students of Champions School of Real Estate that is a great complement to the Certified Home Marketing Specialist designation course. Champions School of Real Estate is a Texas Real Estate School providing Texas real estate license (pre-license, SAE & MCE), Loan Officer and Mortgage Broker, Appraiser and Home Inspector education.

San Antonio, TX — (SBWIRE) — 09/03/2009 — EnergizedSeller.com, announced today that Champions School of Real Estate (CSRE) would make available EnergizedSeller?s informational booklets to their students beginning September 1, 2009. The booklet is a great complement to the Certified Home Marketing Specialist designation course available at Champions.

EnergizedSeller.com is a free online resource that provides home selling tips and home staging tips to home sellers, real estate agents, home stagers and home improvement professionals.more

Hurricane Katrina: An Illustrated Story Of Survival.
One of the other things you find about in the book is that I was only able to retrieve one comic from my apartment. But to some extent, anybody who grows up reading comics kind of fantasizes about being a character in a comic in one shape or form.

So in that way, it”s a great thrill to me. As a New Orleanean, I feel good about telling my - or allowing my story to be told to many, many people around the country who may or may not know exactly what happened in New Orleans and what is still going on now.

WERTHEIMER: Well, how were you recruited? How did it come about that your story gets in?

Mr. MCGOVERN: After the hurricane, I was blogging about my experiences because I was able to come back into the city. And a Web site called Boing Boing picked up on my story, and then a comic book Web site picked up on the story, which led me to Josh.more

Northland real estate appraisers breathe easier in wake of reforms.
Minnesota has joined other states in insulating appraisers from pressures to inflate the value of real estate.

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China”s Western Hedge Fund Stimulus Plan.
A year ago, Asian hedge funds that had made risky bets on Chinese real estate looked like they might lose much or all of those investments. Chinese property companies were flailing under the twin burdens of high costs and heavy debt, with hardly any prospects for refinancing to keep themselves going.

Now, some of those investors, which include investment banks? proprietary desks as well as the Asian offices of global hedge funds, are close to locking in attractive gains, thanks mainly to a government-mandated credit expansion in China that has found its way into infrastructure, property, and, analysts contend, the stock market, as this article in today?s Wall Street Journal explains.

That liquidity has allowed the latest crop of investors to avoid the fate that befell Western predecessors who rushed into the region prior to the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis.more

Real estate executive selling Overland 3BD.
Mr. Ulione is the owner of Consultants Unlimited LLC, a real estate consulting firm. He has previously served as vice president and general manager at Gateway International Raceway. He graduated from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New Brunswick (1976). There were 381 home sales in Overland in 2008, with a median sales price of $66,500.

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Lindsay Lohan: Jewelry Trouble?.
Meanwhile, Lohan is moving out of her home into a Los Angeles apartment. She has been planning the move for awhile because of the constant media attention at her Hollywood Hills home, according to Celebuzz. Samantha Ronson, Lohan?s on-again-off-again girlfriend, is also moving to an apartment to escape the media, but not into the same one as Lohan.


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North State Real Estate: Foreclosures bring down home values.
The current economy is providing considerable consternation to those with money invested in real estate. Or, frankly, anything else.

As in nearly every aspect of real estate ownership, timing is everything. If a homeowner must market the home when competing homes have been foreclosed on and are being offered for sale by banks, the effect can be dramatic. These sales will be factored into your home”s appraisal. Some people may have had property tax values lowered as a result of such sales.

There are many things to consider in analyzing investment aspects of a personal residence:

If you had invested elsewhere, where would you have placed funds? Is it likely they would have been more secure?

Would you have been paying rent for a place in which to live?

Does selling in a depressed market give you an opportunity to buy a replacement home in a like market and lower your property tax obligation?

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A fractionality ownership will get you tranquility at Canyon River.
‘We have significantly reduced the ecological impact to that site,’ said managing partner Richard Leider of Trinity Real Estate in Seattle.

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The price of admission to this new Central Washington playground is not recession-era fare. But the three partners — all fly-fishing enthusiasts — say it”s affordable for their target market of westside residents looking for a second home.

Focus groups found that people were looking for a place relatively close to home that they would use about two months out of the year.

Ownership in the lodge is purchased on a fractional basis. A buyer gets deeded interest in one-sixth of a fully furnished two-bedroom, 1.5-bath suite for $154,000. That works out to 56 days. For the rest of the year, the suite goes into a lease program that allows the owner to charge rent.more

Personal information for hundreds dumped as trash in Parker.
The files were real estate documents that contained credit checks, bank account information, social security numbers and personal checks.

Parker Police now say they”ve checked the entire apartment complex and found 30 boxes of files, with possibly 300 plus victims.

Parker Police took the boxes of files away. We took four to the Colorado Division of Real Estate.

‘This is shocking, this is a borrower”s worst nightmare,’ Communications Director Zachary Urban told us. ‘This is the most sensitive information you can have on a person. The only thing that”s missing is a maiden name.’

State regulators are now pouring over the paperwork, looking to charge who ever left it sitting out in the open.

‘Our statute says you have to maintain the security of the documents and security doesn”t mean at the bottom of a dumpster,’ Urban said.more