Archive for April, 2009
WayToShortSale.com Publishes New Short Sale Guide; Over 80% of Attempted Short Sales Fail Due to Improper Execution
A veteran mortgage and finance expert has published a guide to help troubled homeowners avoid foreclosure. Over 80% of attempted real estate short sales fail due to improper execution. The WayToShortSale.com guide shows how to successfully navigate a short sale, and includes real examples of letters and forms. Salvage credit, avoid foreclosure.
Valrico, FL (PRWEB) [...]
Fight for Astor Estate Mirrors Battle 50 Years Ago
(NY TIMES) - A battle is raging over the Astor fortune.
The main beneficiary is accused of scheming with others to drain the estate. The deceased, it is alleged, did not have the mental capacity to execute the will. Document experts have been asked to examine the authenticity of the will, the credibility of the witnesses [...]
On the House: Real estate success story
(PHILLY.COM) - Once you scrape away all the doom and gloom associated with today’s real estate market, you can, indeed, find a success story or two. Like Doris Pascale’s.
She sold her townhouse in Aston, Delaware County, in just 13 days and got her full asking price - $214,900, with a 3 percent seller-assist.
The shock is [...]
More agents using Facebook, Twitter to sell homes
(The Seattle Times) - When you sign up for Facebook or Twitter, you expect to get random messages from the people that make up your virtual social network — but pitches on homes for sale?
Real-estate agents and others are trolling for clients on these and other popular online social-networking sites, mixing home huckstering with their [...]
DualAlign Technology Opens Doors to Innovations in Photo Montage, Panorama, and Photo Stitch Software
Photographs taken with cell phone cameras can now be turned into beautiful, lasting panoramic images with DualAlign LLC’s breakthrough software innovation, i2k Quickage. This stitching software program allows users to easily combine multiple images from any camera — including camera phones — into one seamless, professional looking photograph.
Clifton Park, NY (PRWEB) April 28, 2009 — [...]
BidClerk.com Reports Construction Projects Up For Bid in the Dallas, TX Area
BidClerk’s daily update of new construction projects coming up for bids and starting construction within the next 90 days.
(PRWEB) April 28, 2009 — BidClerk, the Construction Industry Search Engine, reported today that the following building projects are planning to go out for bids or start construction in the next 90 days in the Dallas, TX [...]
Carteret, NJ Rental Community, Bristol Station Wins Best Rental Community of the Year
Bristol Station, Matzel Development’s innovative apartment community in Carteret, NJ was recently named Rental Community of the Year at this year’s Sales & Marketing Awards.
(PRWEB) April 28, 2009 — Bristol Station, Matzel Development’s rental community in Carteret, NJ, received the Community of the Year award at this year’s Sales & Marketing (SAM) Award Gala, presented [...]
No second thoughts for Amazon over huge South Lake Union development
(The Seattle Times) - Sixteen months ago, Amazon.com pulled the trigger on one of the biggest real-estate deals in Seattle history, signing long-term leases that gave Vulcan Real Estate the go-ahead to build the online retailer a huge South Lake Union headquarters complex.
That was in December 2007. The local office market looks a lot different [...]
Macklowe Lender to Seize 1330 Tower as Empire Shrinks
(Bloomberg) — A 40-story office tower next to New York’s Museum of Modern Art is set to be taken over tomorrow by a unit of Canada’s largest pension fund in the second mezzanine loan foreclosure of a U.S. skyscraper in less than a month.
The pending auction of 1330 Avenue of the Americas is another step [...]
Craigslist scam targets Kentucky real estate
(KENTUCY.COM) - A real estate scam originating on the classified-advertising Web site craigslist.org appears to have confused more than a dozen Lexington-area people interested in renting a home. Information from a legitimate entry about a home for sale apparently was hijacked by a scam artist who listed the property for rent and asked those interested [...]
