After falling for six straight months, sales of existing homes posted an unexpected increase in February. But the median home price tumbled by the largest amount on record.
The National Association of Realtors said that sales of existing homes rose by 2.9 percent in February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.03 million units. [...]

Anyone can find out who has bought and sold property in the area by checking with the local county courthouse.
But the state of Wisconsin no longer releases that information — not even to subscribers who pay $5,000 a year for a copy of the state Department of Revenue’s real estate transfer database.
After The Post-Crescent and [...]

Keith Nowalk has had two houses on the market in Plum for a few years.
One house originally was listed at just under $500,000 and the other is listed close to $65,000. He can’t seem to sell either house. He’s cut the more expensive price by $150,000 over the last three years and moved a [...]

So far this year, the developer of the oceanfront Costa Verano condos has reported a 17 percent national default, referring to buyers who walked away from their contracts and their six-figure deposits.
But that wasn’t the case for the Costa Verano at 1031 First St. S. and defaults have been few with new condos in Jacksonville [...]

In the first half of 2007, home and condo sales in Washtenaw County fell nearly 16 percent compared to the same period in 2006 - the largest midyear sales drop in at least seven years, statistics show.
“The inventory of homes is still very large and getting larger, in my opinion,” said Timm Williams, an [...]

What started out as litigation here is now legislation in Trenton that will limit but also legalize a standard practice of charging an upfront fee to condominium buyers.
The bill, which has passed both chambers of the Legislature and is now on the governor’s desk, will allow condominium associations, only through their master deed or bylaws, [...]

We’ve been talking about real estate licensing laws, admittedly an exercise in futility. Whatever arguments I might make for repeal, it remains that the Arizona Department of Real Estate is not going to dry up and blow away like tumbleweed.
But here’s an important question: Who do real estate licensing laws benefit?
If you thought of consumers, [...]

The husband-and-wife real estate team of Norm and Janice Holloway sells more Venice condominiums than just about anybody.
But when the couple settled into their own waterfront abode at Pointe Whitecap in Venice nearly six years ago, Norm promised Janice that he would never sell it out from under her.
“I told her, ‘You can live here [...]

Michael Gross and his wife, Cathy Fry, bought a two-bedroom, two bath condo in the Hi-Pointe Lofts in Richmond Heights at 6350 Clayton Rd. for $462,000 from Gerald and Katherine Rittenbery on April 18.
Ramona Saunders of Midwest Eagle, Realtors listed the 1,691 square foot condo for $472,000.
Gross is an appellate lawyer and brief writer with [...]

The Buccini/Pollin Group and REMAX Premier Properties/MARK FRITSCHLE GROUP announced that they hosted an open house for the Ocean City, Maryland Real Estate community, Tuesday, May 22. The all day event gave the, more than 200 REALTORS® in attendance, an inside look at the Rivendell, the “beach’s” newest most elegant waterfront condominium building.
“We were very [...]

Condo listings are going up or down, depending on which side of the state line you’re on.
In Massachusetts, the number of condos on the market last month declined 28 percent, according to data released yesterday by the Massachusetts Association of Realtors. It marked the first April decline in condo listings in five years.
At the current [...]

Call it the Metro Atlanta commuter backlash.
Fed-up commuters — conquering traffic congestion by simply moving closer to work.
And one of the most popular “live-work-play” communities is right in the urban heart of Metro-Atlanta’s vast, 28-county sprawl, a region that is now the fastest-growing in the nation, with 5.1 million people and counting.
The community is Midtown [...]