After an active and diverse career as a lawyer, Jen successfully transitioned her negotiation and business skills into Philadelphia real estate, her true love. Jen is a passionate advocate for her clients and seeks to make the real estate transaction as stress free as possible. She is a creative and skilled negotiator and uses these traits to get the best deal for her clients. She offers her clients unmatched advocacy and a comprehensive understanding of the current market. Please contact […]

The U.S. housing markets where homes are selling the fastest are mostly in the West, according to a new survey by ZipRealty. In fact, some western markets have seen a big rise in homes selling in seven days or less. ZipRealty identified the following five markets as the fastest selling markets: Orange County, Calif. Median days on the market (as of March 31): 15 — a 71 percent year-over-year drop from 52 days Percentage of homes that sell in seven […]

Scammers are scraping rental listings off the Internet and using real estate agents’ identity from the listings to dupe would-be clients. Practitioners may not even discover it until the clients confront them, demanding keys for a property they believed they rented and had already mailed a deposit check to the individual they believed was the agent. Scammers are reportedly taking rental listings off Web sites and reposting them at a lower rent than the original listing. The renter than corresponds […]

Fixed-rate mortgages pushed lower for the fifth-consecutive week, with low mortgage rates further driving the housing recovery over the near term, says Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac’s chief economist. This week, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hovered near its all-time record low, while 15-year rates set a new record. Freddie Mac reports the following national averages with mortgage rates for the week ending May 2, 2013: 30-year fixed-rate mortgages: averaged 3.35 percent, with an average 0.7 point, just shy of its 3.31 […]

Buying or Selling doesn’t have to be an uncomfortable experience. I take “PRIDE” in my work. I am a professional Realtor with Prudential Florida Realty. I assist both buyers and sellers and specialize in Palm Beach County. I am a full time Realtor at your service 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week. My clients and their needs always come first, no matter what! I have built a reputation for client satisfaction and am devoted to making your move […]

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A Colorado State University (CSU) study looked into home prices in conservation developments, where residential real estate is limited and usually 50 percent to 70 percent of the land is set aside as open space. The research shows that home buyers are willing to pay a premium to live near such open, undeveloped tracts. Sarah Reed, co-author of the study, and her colleagues compared 2,222 home sales in five counties throughout Colorado between 1998 to 2011. The conservation developments designated […]

With the housing rebound in full swing, “pocket listings” are growing in many parts of the country as some sellers look to preserve their privacy, and brokers use them to trigger an aura of exclusivity to a listing. But some in the industry worry that exclusivity may be crossing an ethical line. Pocket listings refer to situations in which real estate agents purposely keep sales information about a home off the multiple listing services, and brokers only show that house […]

Home prices are rising at the fastest rate in years, with some areas even seeing double-digit increases. “Nobody that I’m aware of anticipated the kind of price growth that we’ve had,” says Budge Huskey, chief executive of Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. “It’s simple supply and demand.” “Supplies have dwindled as banks have pushed fewer homes through foreclosure and because many home owners are either unable or unwilling to sell due to a variety of factors related to the housing-crash […]

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