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New FHA rules for rebound homebuyers
A negative credit event no longer means you’re ineligible for a mortgage. Some borrowers can be eligible again in just 12 months. Mortgage lenders are students of history. They’ve learned that when people haven’t paid their bills, it’s likely that practice will continue. The past is prologue — except when there are extenuating circumstances. The…
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REAL ESTATE BRIEFS
The office of Century 21 Mack Morris Iris Lurie, Marlboro, announces that the Top Listing Agent for April is Laurin Manco LaLima; the Top Listing Team is the Andrea and Harry Mesh Team; and the Top Sales Agent is Frank Fortino. Century 21 Mack Morris Iris Lurie is located at 47 Route 9 south, Marlboro.…
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Coldwell Banker parent company ranked No. 1 by REAL Trends 500 for 2013
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New Jersey and Rockland County, N.Y. announces that its parent company, NRT LLC, was ranked the No. 1 residential real estate brokerage firm in the United States for the 17th consecutive year in the newly released REAL Trends 500 report, based on annual research that identifies the country’s largest and…
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All the single buyers
It’s tougher for unmarried buyers to get into the market. Here is how to appeal to them. By Madhusmita Bora CTW Features Single buyers have been one of the biggest casualties of the economic downturn and the housing bust. Ris- ing home prices and stricter lending rules have kept many young professionals out of the…
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Vacation-home sales up, investment-home sales down
Judging by the numbers, many more Americans will be enjoying vacation homes this summer. Vacation-home sales jumped nearly 30 percent in 2013 to an estimated 717,000 new- and existing-home sales, up from 533,000 in 2012. Vacation-home sales made up 13 percent of all transactions in 2013, their highest share since 2006. The median vacation-home price…
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SPORT SHORTS
The Super SteelFit Championships, a series of intense qualifying fitness competitions leading up to the championship on the Jersey Shore, held its first qualifier at the Toms River National Guard Armory on April 26. Sixty-five athletes from all over New Jersey and Pennsylvania competed in four different workouts, which included deadlifts, thrusters, burpees, rowing and…
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Attendance up at Monmouth Park opener
With a crowd of 10,168, Monmouth Park rolled out a successful Opening Day on May 10. Ribo Bobo posted a length-and-a-half win in the $75,000 Decathlon Stakes featured on the 12-race program. “What a great start to what we hope is an even greater racing season,” Dennis Drazin, advisor to the New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen’s…
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Brookdale softball returns to national championship tourney
By TIM MORRIS A s Brookdale Community College head coach Bo Scannapieco sees it, seeding isn’t going to matter. Whether his team is seeded No. 1 or No. 2 at the National Junior College Athletic Association’s (NJCAA) Division III Softball National Championship that begins on May 15 in Rochester, Minn., there is no easy route…
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SPORT SHORTS
Jackson student-athlete Joseph DeZart was named a finalist to the Sueño MLS 2014, a search for the best undiscovered soccer talent in the country. Now in its eighth year, Sueño MLS, presented by Allstate, is hosted by three Major League Soccer (MLS) teams — the Colorado Rapids, LA Galaxy, and for the first time in…
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