Housing on Mend, Recovery Still Far Off WALL STREET JOURNAL - NICK TIMIRAOS Home prices during the first half of 2012 posted their strongest gains in six years, the clearest sign that more U.S. housing markets have hit bottom. Home prices during the first half of 2012 posted their strongest gains in six years, the clearest sign that more U.S. housing markets have hit bottom. But don't Continue Reading
South Lake Tahoe Real Estate Update
Edgewood Lodge …
Edgewood Lodge Pemit Approved - New 154 Room Hotel at the Golf Course LakeTahoeNews.netBy Kathryn ReedSTATELINE - The Edgewood Lodge project kept its "no negative comments" streak alive Thursday with 11 positive remarks.In a series of votes by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board, the hotel project on Edgewood Tahoe golf course received not a single no vote or abstention from any Continue Reading
Tahoe Voted Best Lake in US By Laura Bly, USA TODAY Tahoe - North America's largest and most popular alpine lake, a place Mark Twain once called "the fairest picture the whole earth affords" - is the champion in USA TODAY's recent survey. The poll generated more than 5,000 votes via Facebook and Twitter. Michigan's Lake Charlevoix was runner-up among a field of 15 finalists nominated by regional Continue Reading
Lake Tahoe Celebrity Golf
The Deb Howard & Co Team volunteered again at the Soroptimist tent this year. Here is our very own Bruce with John Elway! Continue Reading
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
We have been playing in the snow in Tahoe!
We have been playing in the snow in Tahoe! 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
