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After Years of False Hope, Signs of the Housing Market Turning

By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM WASHINGTON - Announcements of a housing recovery have become a wrongheaded rite of summer, but after several years of false hopes, evidence is accumulating that the optimists may finally be right.   The housing market is starting to recover. Prices are rising. Sales are increasing. Home builders are clearing lots and raising frames.   Joe Niece, a real estate Continue Reading

Vacation Real Estate Market Perks

By MARILYN ALVA INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY The Meredith Bay, N.H., resort community is among several Southworth Development picked up in recent years, anticipating vacation buyers. When the housing market falls, vacation homes fall harder. They're discretionary purchases that can be put off for another day. That day may be here or near. Sensing a possible bottom, second-home buyers are Continue Reading

Olympics Coming to Tahoe?

Financial pact smooths path for Tahoe to host Olympics Posted by Tahoenews.net, go to www.laketahoenews.net for more info By Susan Wood With international and U.S. Olympic officials paving the ski trail this week for future bids in the States, organizers of a bi-state coalition to bring the 2022 Games to the Tahoe-Reno region solidified their dedication to the monumental effort. It's early, and Continue Reading

Sac Bee Article: Good Time to Buy in Tahoe

 Falling prices lure second-home shoppers to Lake Tahoe areaSACRAMENTO BEE By Hudson Sangree and Phillip ReeseLike a lot of vacationers, Rick and Kristie Santos would return from trips to Lake Tahoe during the housing boom wondering what it would take to own a second home there.They were always disappointed when they looked at the listings. "You'd jump online and never could afford it," Kristie Continue Reading

El Dorado County Loaning Money for Home Repairs

2012 Housing Market Stabilization and Modest Increase Predicted Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist for National Association of Realtors:  Housing Market Outlook El Dorado County has money to loan for home repairs Posted by admin laketahoenews.net April 7th, 2012 El Dorado County has funds available as low-interest rate loans for home repairs to income-qualified homeowners in the Continue Reading

NAR: 2012 home sales will be strongest in past 5 years

February pending sales up 9.2% from year ago By Inman News, Monday, March 26, 2012. The National Association of Realtors is predicting existing-home sales will jump 7 to 10 percent in 2012 to the highest level in five years, based on an "uneven but higher sales pattern" so far this year. Pending home sales fell a seasonally adjusted 0.5 percent from January to February, which was up 9.2 percent Continue Reading

In Addition to $25 Billion Settlement, Nevada’s AG Wins More

In Addition to $25 Billion Settlement, Nevada's AG Wins More 02/13/2012 BY: ESTHER CHO In addition to the $25 billion settlement between the five largest servicers and 49 states, Nevada's Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto reaped more for Nevada homeowners through an additional settlement with Bank of America. "I fought for and consequently received additional coverage that is above and Continue Reading

The State of Real Estate, by Deb Howard

We recently held our annual DH&Co team retreat, an exercise we hold  near and dear as it gives us a sense of "where we have been", "where we are" and  what are the prospects for where "we're headed", particularly given the economic  climate we travel in. For the first time in many years both the NAR and CAR (our nat'l and state  realtor associations) are cautiously forecasting  an upturn in Continue Reading

Palm Trees… And Snow?

CAR Business Meeting 2012 OK, so yes, there were palm trees and 70 degree weather, but we still managed to focus, and do a lot of good work while we were at the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® Business Meetings, held in Indian Wells near Palm Springs. Simultaneously, the snow was falling in Tahoe... DH&Co Office snow 2012 Continue Reading