In my post “I Know You Have Questions”, I asked the readers of my site to send me questions or topics that they are just dying to ask or are confronted with often. John Gall asked: “If you could purchase only one property would you choose a 4 bedroom and skip 3 bedrooms or consider all looking for the best deal with the best cash flow or over

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A landlord had allowed a tenant to pay their rent late every month, but eventually decided to evict the tenant when they were late the next month (per the lease). The tenant took the landlord to court claiming the landlord had always accepted the late rent and therefore, what was different the month he finally decided to evict her? In other

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Unusual home spaces need not be boring and mind-numbing atmosphere, it can be filled with various things to liven up the space and make it ideal for a comfortable and secured living. Your home space may not have the space for a garden like an Italian Villa or the scenic view of a French chalet, but you can still do something to make it a styl

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Buying a private island is almost like buying a new home. This unique guide details how to go about buying a private island. From getting water on your island to building on an island, the guide has everything you need to know. Believe it or not, but most islands aren't as expensive as you'd think. Even if you don't own an island or plan o

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Dubai: The future of horse racing in Dubai was unveiled yesterday with pomp and ceremony on the Beach Arena at Mina Salaam, Madinat Jumeirah.

And it looked radiant.

In two and a half years time Dubai will have a state-of-the-art horse racing city called Meydan inclusive of luxury hotels and a sky-bubble restaurant, entertainment clubs,

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DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TERMIAL, CONCORSE AND MUCH MORE AT DUBAI AIRPORT.

Construction work for Terminal 3, concourse 2 and concourse 3 is scheduled for completion by 2006
Cost: $2.5 billion
Up to: 60 million passengers a year

CONCOURSE 2
Directly connected to Terminal 3, Concourse 2 is dedicated exclusively to Emirates. The building will

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Nakheel launches Al-Furjan
Nakheel, one of the world’s largest privately-held property developers, today announced the launch of Al Furjan - a new approach to a family oriented community development located in the heart of new Dubai.
United Arab Emirates: 46 minutes ago PRESS RELEASE
Al Furjan represents an outstanding opportunity, offeri

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The number of new home starts in Austin for the last quarter of 2007 is lowest since 2004. It looks like builders are pulling back on new homes. Although it could simply be that lenders are restricting builders from building. The developments for 2008 should be interesting. Many of the predictions for 2007 show that the number of new home

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Do I need a Realtor ?

So you have decided to buy a new construction home and now you are wondering whether to hire a Realtor or not. You do need a Realtor, but not right now.


Looking for a new Home Community

You can look online for the communities in your area that are building new homes...and there wont be many..since you are buyi

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Here is a great post by Barry Ritholtz over at his blog The Bog Picture. In this post he is making fun of former NAR chief economist David Lereah who apparently writes a new book explaining how the real estate market is so great every year. Ok, actually he rewrites the same book every year and tries a different cover and changes a few words

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The goal here is to bring together the best real estate bloggers from around the country to share information about what we’re all passionate about: real estate. This is intended to be a forum for everyone to participate. Read on and enjoy the best articles submitted for the first edition of the Carnival of Real Estate in the new year.

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Countrywide recently declared their third quarter results for 2007. And to say the least they did not look pretty. In addition to increases in deliquencies and foreclosures Countrywide declared a large loss, 1.2 billion dollars. This is pretty high when you consider the entire company is only worth 2.97 billion. If Countrywide keeps this up

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The Austin real estate stats have been released for November. Although the market is still down from the summer it has shown improvement over the last 3 months. The suburbs are moving slower than central Austin real estate market. And east Austin is moving slower than west Austin. It will be interesting to see what happens in 2008. Part

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New York and New Jersey area always have a demand for real-estate. I personally found out about the local housing crunch when I moved to the New York metro area. With prices varying from $1,000 for rental units to millions of dollars for houses and condominiums finding affordable place to live is quite challenging. There are few resources ava

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This week's Carnival of Real Estate #74 was held at Minnesota Investment Property blog. Many great posts were submitted, but only 11 were chosen. I spent the last couple cold days over the warm glow of my laptop reading all the fantastic submissions. Considering it is currently 11 below zero outside as I write this, I thought it might be f

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