Foreigners Buying Australia Homes Need Closer Watch, MP Says
Australia tightened rules on foreign investment in real estate in 2010, requiring offshore buyers to purchase only new properties, and introduced penalties to enforce the changes. It also said temporary residents must obtain approval from FIRB to buy …
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Advice for a new generation of real estate buyers and sellers
DeSimone, 40, is a real estate broker with his own company in New York and a weekly column on the real estate website Zillow. His new book is called “Next Generation Real Estate” (Changing Lives Press, $ 21.99). He spoke with The Record recently; …
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BIG BEAR: Resort sale may heat up real estate market
In the wake of Mammoth Mountain’s announcement that it was buying Big Bear Mountain Resorts for $ 38 million, Big Bear real estate experts were optimistic the move could mean a hotter market for homes in the area. Mike Dolan, who’s worked in Big Bear …
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Low inventory prices out many desert homebuyers
… the recession, according to the California Association of Realtors. The organization of real estate agents calculates affordability based on assumed down-payments, the national average interest rate, mortgage payments, approximate property taxes …
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