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Buying a Home

Manhattan’s immunity to real estate crisis?

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Is the real estate market in Manhattan still flourishing?

The real estate recession has been continuously spreading since the credit crunch started 8 months ago, reducing considerably prices in small towns, suburbs, and cities such as Seattle and San Francisco that have so far been resilient to the crisis. It would seem that New York is […]

Are modern New Villages going to replace traditional suburbs

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

“New Villages,” as they were dubbed in the latest issue of The Futurist magazine by a planner Robert McIntyre, are compact, pleasantly urban settlements situated considerably away from city centers. They present some of the charms and facilities of cities, owning to their density, but have the primarily rural surroundings that were a major factor […]

3 Reasons to Delay Buying a Home

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

If you have the financial fluency and you want to eventually buy your own house, there are very few good reasons to postpone the purchase. You can miss out on years of appreciation if you do.
Selling the House Too Soon

The main thing you want to avoid when buying a home is being put in a […]