Friday Facts June 10, 2011 11 Jun 2011 | 03:45 am

FRIDAY FACTS June 10, 2011 NAR reports that nationally, pending home sales fell 11.6% this April compared with March. They fell 26.5% comparing April 2011 with April 2010. In the Northeast, pending s...

Friday Facts March 25, 2011 26 Mar 2011 | 01:36 am

FRIDAY FACTS March 25, 2011 Although the government has no money, HUD is increasing the grant amounts of $27.6 million in 2010 to $40.8 million in 2011 used to investigate allegations of housing disc...

Friday Facts March 18, 2011 19 Mar 2011 | 01:15 am

FRIDAY FACTS March 18, 2011 Beware unintended consequences. An article in RISMedia quotes John Badalamenti, Prudential Fox & Roach Realtors, Wayne, PA, “Buyers are still looking for perfection with c...

Friday Facts March 11, 2011 12 Mar 2011 | 05:14 am

FRIDAY FACTS March 11, 20100 According to an article in the Wall Street Journal on February 16, 2011, the down payments demanded by banks to buy homes have ballooned since the housing bust forcing ma...

Friday Facts March 4, 2011 5 Mar 2011 | 04:04 am

March 4, 2011 Harry S. Truman said, “A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.” Corelogic reports that stats ...

Friday Facts February 25, 2011 26 Feb 2011 | 04:04 am

FRIDAY FACTS February 25, 2011 Did you know that in February 2010, “spot loan” approval to obtain FHA condo financing was terminated, and every single condo development has to have project approval b...

Friday Facts February 18, 2011 22 Feb 2011 | 04:07 am

FRIDAY FACTS February 18, 2011 FOLLOWING ARE SOUNDBITES FROM THE INMAN CONNECT CONFERENCE HELD JANUARY 12-14 IN NEW YORK CITY. Websites should be built for the user. Give them only that. Make it eas...

Friday Facts February 11, 2011 12 Feb 2011 | 04:38 am

Friday Facts February 11, 2011 12 Feb 2011 | 04:38 am

FRIDAY FACTS February 11, 2011 Here’s a notable quote from Tracey Velt in a RealTrends blog, “I was in the market for a house in 2005. Unsure whom we wanted to use as our real estate professional, my...

Friday Facts February 4, 2011 5 Feb 2011 | 04:51 am

FRIDAY FACTS February 4, 2011 An article in RISMedia, “Extended Families Come Together under One Roof to Make Ends Meet” offers the following statistics: The average home today has 2.59 people, the h...