Category: Independent Business
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Three tips to win the race for a new home
In a seller’s market, success in home buying favors the focused, prepared buyer. By Marilyn Kennedy Melia Content That Works This year home shopping may feel like hitting a hill at the end of a marathon with a pack of runners closing in on you from behind. Scraping together a down payment and winning mortgage…
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Heritage House Sotheby’s participates in global real estate conference
Heritage House Sotheby’s International Realty, Shrewsbury, recently participated in the 2016 Sotheby’s International Realty Global Networking Event. The event, which took place May 16-18 in Las Vegas, Nevada, brought together approximately 2,300 members of the Sotheby’s International Realty network, with more than 165 of the brand’s companies represented from 40 countries and territories worldwide. “The…
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Selling a tear down? Do the math
By Marilyn Kennedy Melia Content That Works Another sign that the housing market is getting on its feet: more homes are coming down. Nearly eight percent of single-family homes constructed in 2015 involved the tear-down of an existing house on the lot. In areas with older homes the percent is much higher, according to estimates…
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Coldwell Banker among highest performing real estate companies
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New Jersey and Rockland County, New York, ranked as a top residential real estate company for sales volume and transaction sides in the New York City metropolitan area in 2015, along with other residential brokerage firms owned by NRT, LLC. The rankings were reported in the 2016 REAL Trends Market…
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Weichert’s 16th Annual Charity Golf Outing set for Aug. 18
Weichert, Realtors will host its 16th Annual Charity Golf Outing on Aug. 18 at Fiddler’s Elbow Country Club in Bedminster. The event will raise funds for the American Cancer Society to benefit breast cancer research. “As we celebrate another year of hosting our coveted golf tournament, I am once again reminded how often breast cancer…
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Weichert, Realtors’ Middletown office to participate in Relay for Life June 11-12
Thomas Donovan, manager of the Weichert, Realtors Middletown sales office, announces that the office will once again be participating in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life of Middletown event, scheduled to take place on June 11-12, beginning at 2 p.m. at Middletown High School North. The signature event, organized by the American Cancer Society,…
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Coldwell Banker honors award-winning sales agents with Broadway trip
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage recently hosted a two-day New York City Networking Event to honor approximately 365 award-winning real estate agents from New Jersey, Connecticut and Westchester and Rockland counties in New York. The affiliated agents were treated to a stay at the New York Marriott Marquis in Times Square and greeted with a networking…
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Smart ways to use a reverse mortgage
Reverse mortgages are inching back as a possible option for careful borrowers. By Erik J. Martin Content That Works Heading into your retirement years and looking to delay tapping into Social Security, increase monthly cash flow, and diversify your retirement funds with an extra source of money? You may want to move your real estate…
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Townhouses rise in popularity as an affordable option
By Marilyn Kennedy Melia Content That Works When it comes to the roof over their heads, most people want the same thing: A house of their own. “Surveys clearly indicate a preference among all age groups for homeownership, and homeownership in single-family homes,” says Robert Dietz, chief economist at the National Association of Home Builders.…
