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Photo Courtesy of creativecommons.org Ric E Ette In a world where each gallon of gas costs over $4, people are interested in buying properties in convenient locations. They want to be able to take trains or buses or other forms of public transportation, and wonder of wonders, they want to be able to walk places. […]

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  Since you’re reading this you know we’re committed to being on-line. We Blog, we twitter (follow me @billLublin or this blog @c21agvoices), we maintain the “normal” websites for people to look for properties, we publish our listings to century21.com, and we syndicate our listings to over a dozen other websites. And we have to […]

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In this two-and-a-half minute video from Expert Village, nurseryman Scott Reil tells us: Why weeding is important How to weed with efficiency at home How to use mulch as a weed-retardant There are two basic ways to weed a garden, according to our video host — you can use your hands or you can use […]

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Full House Century 21 Australia We all talk about the International Associates of the CENTURY 21 System. And at our International Convention each year, we get to meet agents from all over the world. France, China, Japan, Mexico, England, and Australia to name a few. I thought you might enjoy seeing this little commercial from […]

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Another day, another piece of inflationary data. June’s Consumer Price Index showed a 5 percent year-over-year increase in what is now the largest annual Cost of Living increase for Americans in 17 years. This is bad news for active home buyers because rising costs are considered inflationary and inflation causes mortgage rates to increase. Predictably, […]

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Investors have turned their attention back to the U.S. economy this morning, causing yesterday’s mortgage rate improvements to unwind a bit. Rates had fallen Monday after the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury’s joint announcement in support of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  Tuesday, it’s the data that was taking center stage. Most notably, the U.S. […]

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“Economic uncertainty” is turning into a 2008 buzzword and there’s a lot of good reasons why. On the one hand, there are precursors to inflation in the economy: Rising oil costs Rising food prices Higher Cost of Living On the other hand, there are precursors to recession in the economy, too: Mounting job losses Less […]

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Last week, Forbes Magazine published a Top 10 list that should grab the attention of housing market bottom-feeders. The Top 10 list of Increasingly Affordable U.S. Housing Markets shows that falling home prices and steady mortgage rates are providing a support floor in some of the country’s most beat-up regions. The report’s methodology is simple: Take […]

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It’s a terrific time to buy a home, but not because homes happen to be affordable, or because values in Philadelphia are maintaining a positive direction. It’s a terrific time to buy because the variety of mortgage products available to home buyers looks poised to shrink. Monday, Alt-A mortgage lender IndyMac Bank stopped accepting mortgage applications […]

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On the first Friday of each month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its Non-Farm Payrolls report. More commonly, it’s called the “jobs report”. The jobs report is a sector-by-sector look into the U.S. economy and whether businesses are hiring — or firing — workers. This is one of the reasons why its release is […]

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