A lack of homes for sale in the US is dragging on the housing market, according to a new report from Realtor.com. Although the number of homes for sale rose, new listings remained scarce in March, according to the company’s March report. The increase in the number of homes for sale is “a reflection of…
Get Your Gardening Tools Ready and Enter the Annual Greenest Block in Brooklyn Contest
Show off your neighborhood’s community spirit and horticultural know-how with an entry in the annual Greenest Block in Brooklyn contest. The plant-filled competition aims to bring communities together to make Brooklyn a cleaner, greener place. The contest is open to residential and commercial blocks as well as community gardens in the borough. The application process…
Buying Off-Market Property: A Guide
Why Sellers Might Sell Off-Market Selling property off-market offers sellers a confidential transaction. Few people will know that their property is up for sale. Off-market sales are sometimes used by people who would prefer that their business contacts, creditors, ex-partners or neighbors and others do not know that their house is up for sale. Celebrities,…
Blue Land Properties begins a real estate tour in the United States, Puerto Rico and Colombia
Source: El Caribe Blue Land Properties begins a tour of cities in the United States, Puerto Rico, and Colombia to demonstrate the beauty and investment opportunities that the Dominican Republic offers in the real estate tourism sector, particularly in Punta Cana. The tour, which begins in mid-February, will stop in cities such as Philadelphia, Boston,…
$5 million might be luxe in Minnesota but not in LA
Josh Altman has been appearing regularly on Bravo’s Million Dollar Listings for several years now, where the Los Angeles-based realtor shows exactly that: multimillion-dollar homes for sale in the city of angels. But the Douglas Elliman realtor has a message about the so-called mansion tax on every property sale above $5 million in Los Angeles…
Prospect Heights Victorian Flat With Fireplace, Walnut Kitchen, Built-ins Asks $1,750 Million
Purchased only last year, this floor-through in a Victorian apartment building is back on the market with a renovation that added a powder room, among other updates. It’s on the penultimate floor of a four-story, four-unit 1890s Romanesque Revival flats building at 645 Carlton Avenue in the Prospect Heights Historic District. The six-room unit has…
Home sellers go on strike
The US housing market has entered into its peak annual spring season where buyers and sellers alike get serious about their moves. Only this year there’s something off: Not a lot of homes are going up for sale. According to Realtor.com (see chart below), only 349,284 US homes were listed for sale in March 2023….
Albuquerque, state do property swap to solve land use issues
ALBUQUERQUE, NM (AP) — The city of Albuquerque has announced a property swap with the state in hopes of solving land use issues. The city is giving a lot on Menaul Boulevard to the state in exchange for two properties and will provide a larger, more-accessible space for Solid Waste operations. Albuquerque Major Tim Keller…
Landlord ‘$65k out of pocket’ after tenant ‘refuses to move, pay rent’
A Melbourne landlord claims she’s “close to $65,000 out of pocket” after her tenant allegedly refused to leave her rental property and stopped paying rent. Nicole Hicks said she leased her suburban home to a single mum on government welfare six years ago, but always had the intention of moving back in to renovate and…
Spring housing market could bring a reckoning for realtors in Canada
Breadcrumb Trail Links Real Estate Realtors’ fate depends on whether buyers and sellers return in force and how that will affect prices Published March 30, 2023 • Last updated 3 days ago • 5 minute read Industry observers have suggested the usually busy spring market might be the turning point that lures buyers and sellers…