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Want to Know If Someone Died in Your Home? There’s a Site for That
Homes: Feverpitched; Grim Reaper: Ivan Bliznetsov/iStock/time immemorial Your disclosure form and home inspection reveal plenty about the house you’re buying. Oops, there is lead paint. Darn, termites...
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Want to Go Wild on Exterior Paint Colors? Read This First
Bright and detailed in Half Moon Bay, CA: realtor.com When I was a kid in Saratoga Springs, NY, this house mesmerized me. It was rundown and had a dirt floor, and then, suddenly (it seemed) a coat of...
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Home Prices Rising Slowly, Not in the Cities You’d Think
Roland Magnusson/iStock The ascent continues. Home prices continued their year-over-year rises in both July and August, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index on Tuesday...
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Renters, Break Out Your Hankies: Homeowners Will Build Serious Wealth (and...
hoozone/iStock The news has been a little grim of late for renters. Homeownership is at all-time lows and, with rising prices and tight credit, the path to the American dream is likely to stay rocky...
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The Cheapest Home in One of America’s Priciest Cities: Santa Barbara
realtor.com Welcome to our first installment of a series on the cheapest homes in America’s most expensive real estate markets. Santa Barbara, CA, is currently the most expensive market on...
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Never Say Neverland? A Chinese Auction Site Tries to Sell Michael Jackson’s...
Screen shot from Taobao Chinese buyers have flooded the American real estate market for the past couple of years. This week, an iconic piece of American real estate has been drawn into the Chinese...
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Afraid of E. coli? Try This New Bacteria-Busting Paint
Paint: 36clicks/iStock; bacteria: Jezperklauzen/iStock Lots of suggestions have been floated to prevent, or kill, E. coli, staph, and other nasty (and potentially deadly) bacterial infections. But who...
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TBT: Hey, Look, You Can Buy Mary Tyler Moore’s Apartment!
The home used as the exterior for Mary Richards’ apartment Mary Tyler Moore: CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images; house: realtor.com The very first shot of the first episode of the “The Mary Tyler Moore...
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Pending Home Sales Near Their Lowest Point in 2015
4x6/iStock Is the real estate streak of 2015 finally fizzling? The Pending Home Sales Index from the National Association of Realtors®, which measures homes under contract but not yet sold, reported a...
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Home Flipping Returns, Slightly Different From Before
Aleutie/iStock House flipping is back—and you thought that was so 2007! Sure, the trend declined after the real estate market crash in 2008, came back a bit, and sagged again just last year. But the...
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10 Homes in America’s Best School Districts: Massachusetts Edition
Muzzey High School Condominiums: Google Maps There’s no question: A home in a great school district is usually a top priority for families looking to buy. And, more often than not, such homes come...
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The ‘Full House’ Reboot Is Coming Soon—Check Out the Home’s New Look
ABC Photo Archives/ABC via Getty Images Many a fan of the ’80s sitcom “Full House” has made the pilgrimage to the San Francisco home where the three men and three young girls had their misadventures....
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You’ll (Probably) Remodel in 2016, So Here Are Some Projects to Focus On
Ridofranz/iStock Own a home? Most likely you’ll be sprucing it up next year. According to the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University’s Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity, annual...
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What Will the Winter of El Nino Be Like for Colorado Real Estate?
wwing/iStock A funny thing about El Niño and the hot Denver market: This winter, the weather pattern will bring much-needed snow in Colorado—but locals aren’t sure that’s good news. More frequent and...
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Gangster’s Paradise Up for Sale, Needs Some Love
Guernsey's If you are up for a renovation and a house with a bit of history, the home of mafia capo Albert Anastasia can be yours for a bargain. On Dec. 8, luxury auction house Guernsey’s will offer...
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Want to Buy a Discount Luxury Home? Better Bid Fast
BrianAJackson/iStock The luxury market has remained mighty strong in America during this wild year of rising real estate prices. But that doesn’t mean that high-end homes are exactly flying off the...
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Is Reno the New San Francisco?
Skyline: David Sucsy/iStock; text: crossroadscreative/iStock Reno, NV, gets a lousy rap. A down-and-out casino town, with higher-than-average unemployment and high crime that has somehow remained...
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Is California the Worst Place in America to Live?
Sign: wellesenterprises/iStock; thumb: Big_Ryan/iStock Ah, the Golden State, with its glassy Pacific beaches and its hazy sunshine. California really is the promised land. Or is it? A study released...
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First-Time Buyers Were the Market Wallflowers in 2015, Survey Shows
Cultura/Nancy Honey/Getty Images; open house sign: jdillontoole/iStock First-time home buyers have been fading from the market for three years in a row, and their participation is at its lowest point...
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In Silicon Valley, a Nearly $2 Million Shack Is Just a Teardown
realtor.com Just when you thought the Northern California real estate market couldn’t get more nuts, there’s a new level of madness. It comes in the form of a Silicon Valley shack that’s on the market...
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