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If you’re looking to buy a home right now, you’d better find some cash and you’d better find it fast. Right now homebuyers across the country, already in frenzied bidding wars for homes, are increasingly losing out to the almighty all-cash buyer. “I had one couple, that was very well-qualified but would require a mortgage, put offers on four properties that were all sold to somebody else who paid cash,” says Bruce Taylor, president of ERA Key Realty Services in Boston. “It’s a very tight market. Until prices escalate further, […]

The percentage of homes for sale has risen 25 percent this year and housing inventories have started to outpace typical seasonal upticks, realtor.com® reports. Rising home prices likely are encouraging more home sellers to test out the market. The inventory crunch may be showing signs of easing with listings rising 5.8 percent in May. Still, the number of homes for sale is low by historical standards. Listings in May are still 10 percent below year-ago levels. The places where the number of homes for sale rose the most were Atlanta […]

Fiscal headwinds are expected to keep growth to below 2% for the first half of the year. However, as fiscal drags wane in the second half of 2014, growth should continue to move in the positive direction during an ongoing housing recovery, according to the Fannie Mae latest housing outlook report. Housing was largely positive entering the spring and summer season, with various indicators such as home prices, home sales and homebuilding activity showing signs of long-term improvement toward normalcy. “At the outset of the year, we forecasted that 2013 […]

A couple in Yakima, Wash., pleaded not guilty this week to charges of stalking and attacking a real estate agent in a vacant house. Luis Gomez-Monges, 38, and Adriana Mendez, 23, pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted first-degree murder and first-degree assault of a 78-year-old real estate agent. According to police reports, the couple allegedly posed as prospective buyers and asked for Vern Holbrook, a real estate professional with Aspen Real Estate. A colleague of Holbrook’s later discovered him in a pool of blood at a vacant home for […]

Foreclosure filings which include default notices, scheduled auctions, and bank repossessions—increased 2 percent in May, rising from a 75-month low in April, according to the latest foreclosure report from RealtyTrac. Still, foreclosure filings are down 28 percent from a year ago. The May increase was largely attributed to an 11 percent increase in bank repossessions. Foreclosure starts also ticked up 4 percent in May over last month, with 26 states posting increases, according to the report. “Foreclosure activity continued to bounce back in some markets where it may have appeared […]

Sparse housing supply coupled with strong buyer demand left many homebuyers frustrated as rates continued to inch up and buyers felt the heat to buy now. However, according to data from Realtor.com, as the hot spring buying season moves into summer, some regions are seeing a replenishing of for-sale homes as sellers begin to respond to pent up demand. This is a relief for many after housing inventory hovered around levels not seen in nearly 10 years even as recent as three months ago. In May, national inventories increased by […]

Jesse is a Broker Owner of Realty Executives Success. He has been a Realtor for about ten years. Jesse has earned many top ten sales honors, “Rookie of the Year” his first year in business and “Best of the Best” honors by The Daily Journal. Jesse attended Bay State College in Boston, and he also earned the prestigious Residential Marketing Masters designation. Using this designation helps him develop a dynamic marketing campaign on each of his listings. He has a impressive list of sellers recommendations which he shares with anyone […]

Gays and lesbians who want babies are flocking from as far away as France and Israel to conceive their dream of becoming parents using donor eggs, donor sperm and surrogates something not allowed in their home countries. The USA is a top market for gay-friendly surrogacy, and a growing number of couples come from overseas, creating a burgeoning travel segment commonly called medical tourism. Oregon Reproductive Medicine, a Portland fertility clinic, made USA Today for their success rate in helping gay and lesbian couples make families, not to mention Portland’s […]

We all know about the protest efforts of the Westboro Baptist Church, but in recent years, some amazing counter-protests have sprung up. None more incredible than the Equality House  an entire house painted as one giant rainbow, directly across from Westboro itself in Topeka, Kansas. The idea was the brainchild of Planting Peace, an international relief aid charity, whose founder was inspired by a child, who passed by the Westboro protestors during graduation at Washburn University, with a sign that read “God hates no one.” “The founder of Planting Peace […]

Tim is the Omaha Metro’s leading Gay Realtor! I have been a licensed Realtor in the state of Nebraska and Iowa since 1998. I am a resident of midtown Omaha but most importantly, I specialize in Old and Historic homes. It has been my pleasure to help 1,000’s of people buy and sell their fantastic historic homes. My business has also encompassed representing many investors, commercial buyers and sellers, and so many of Omaha and Council Bluffs single family residences and new construction home building projects. I have enjoyed the […]