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Pending Home Sales Now at 9-Year High

May was a solid month for pending home sales activity, but uncertainty remains for housing’s future Pending home sales continued their hot streak in May, rising by monthly and yearly measurements to their highest level in nine years, according to

FrontDoor Communities Now Selling at CopperLeaf in Cobb County

FrontDoor Communities has announced that homes in its new community, CopperLeaf, are now on the market. These homes are priced from the $400,000s to the mid- $500,000. Featuring a variety of home designs, these homes offer designs with four

A Game of Thrones-Esque Castle

If you like Game of Thrones, this may be the perfect property for you. For $12.8 million, you can own a castle in Bolton Landing, NY that could be straight out of a GoT. Highlands Castle was built in

Fair Housing Decision: A True Victory for Civil Rights?

Civil rights groups are celebrating the Supreme Court’s recent decision on disparate impact claims, but is it too early? The Supreme Court’s affirmation of an appeals decision endorsing the citation of disparate impact in housing cases – which means evidence

Atlanta’s “Condo Queen” is Opening Her Own Real Estate Company

Karen Rodriguez, an Atlanta-based real estate entrepreneur and 2014 Atlanta Who’s Who participant, has just launched her own company, GROUP KORA. With her claim to fame of closing more luxury condo sales than any other Atlanta Realtor, Rodriguez has opened

Andy Warhol’s Hamptons Estate on Market

Andy Warhol’s 30-acre Montauk estate in the Hamptons is on the market for $85 million. The property, which was originally built as a fishing camp, offers an equestrian center, seaside main house and six cottages. Warhol bought the property

Negative Equity Still Huge Problem in Atlanta

Progress has been made on negative equity front, but troubling trends persist In the Atlanta housing market, 23.2 percent of mortgage holders remain underwater, and a majority will not reach positive equity for some time. That was the sobering finding of

Atlanta Foreclosure Activity Spikes 27%

Foreclosure activity in the ATL shot up by a double-digit amount in May, according to new RealtyTrac numbers. Foreclosure activity in Metro Atlanta was up 27 percent year-over-year in May, according to the latest 2015 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report from

Alina Arguello-Jenkins and Carmen Gutierrez Perez Make List of Top 250 Hispanic Agents

Alina Arguello-Jenkins and Carmen Gutierrez Perez made the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals‘ list of the Top 250 Hispanic Agents in the U.S. The list ranked agents based on the number of transactions they made in 2014.

Supreme Court Rules on FHA

Supreme Court rules disparate impact claims will be covered under FHA Discriminatory intent is irrelevant in cases of disparate impact, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in a tight 5-4 decision, where Justice Anthony Kennedy proved the decider. In

Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch on the Market

Michael Jackson’s 2,698-arce Neverland Ranch is on the market for $100 million. After purchasing the property for $18 million in 1988, Jackson added a Ferris wheel, a carousel, two trains, bumper cars and his own zoo in addition to

Value of Building Green

Some builders have avoided green building for fear of costs. Turns out, it could help them make money Environmentalists have long urged developers to design more green buildings, but faced with the high immediate cost of sustainable materials and

Supreme Court Decision Expected on Disparate Impact

A decision to redefine a landmark housing civil rights bill could come as early as tomorrow A handful of landmark cases in the Supreme Court this year – Obamacare and same-sex marriage – threaten to overshadow a soon forthcoming

Joliet, Illinois’ Haunted Mansion

While one real estate agent expected a property rumored to be haunted would be hard to sell, she found the exact opposite to be true. A Joliet, Ill. mansion sold above asking price during a bidding war within a

Top 10 Dangers Facing the National Association of Realtors

The National Association of Realtors face 10 big dangers – none of them easily solved What are the threats that could impact the residential real estate industry? NAR’s “Danger Report,” a new report commissioned to the Swanepoel | T3 Group, analyzes the

Atlanta Among Most Affordable Housing Markets for Millennials

Atlanta is still budget-friendly for Millennials Although skyrocketing housing costs and limited space have kept millennials from buying housing in popular metropolitan areas, Atlanta housing is still in the range of affordability for the average millennial. Bloomberg L.P., a

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