If you have decided to sell your home on your own, you need to remember that you will be performing various tasks. You will clean up, photograph, and advertise the house. Afterwards, you will receive and screen calls, and schedule viewings; either private viewing or through open house events. Though you may be able to perform all these tasks single-handedly, and without any hitches, you may encounter some difficulty when you are actually showing the house to potential buyers. Read more…

Selling a house is not a very easy thing to do, especially if you have decided to sell your property on your own. Home sellers who have opted to secure the services of real estate agents have been spared this kind of trouble, but do not fret. Selling your property on your own is very much doable. You just have to do your homework and, make sure that you have a highly professional support group whom you can run to for help and advice. Read more…

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New housing starts sank to the lowest level in more than six years in October and a key measure of builders' confidence in the market hit a nine-year low, a government report showed Friday. Read more…

The pain continues for some hard-pressed homeowners: Foreclosure filings leaped again last month to their highest levels of the year, indicating many Americans are facing difficulties paying their mortgages. Read more…

Like many other California renters in early 2005, Nick Basile and his fiance, Jackie Neuffer, felt the pressure of ballooning home prices. Read more…

AP - The Treasury Department is tightening its process for approving the millions of dollars of mortgage-related debt issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a change that could take effect as soon as January, a senior Treasury official said Friday. Read more…

Thousands on a kitchen remodel? A new deck? Just tear the whole thing down. Read more…

AFP - Czech banks are preparing for a boom in financial investment by small savers in the post-Communist country, where certain unscrupulous practices during the first steps towards a capitalist economy caused many to distrust the market. Read more…

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AFP - US investment fund Blackstone Group is to buy leading US real estate firm Equity Office Properties Trust for about 36 billion dollars. Read more…

AP - Sales of existing homes fell in 38 states during the summer, led by steep declines in Nevada, Arizona, Florida and California, as the once-booming housing market showed further signs of a steep slowdown. Read more…

Reuters - Private equity firm Blackstone Group on Monday said it would buy Equity Office Properties Trust for $20 billion, the largest acquisition by far among real estate investment trusts. Read more…

AP - The feeble U.S. housing market showed more frailty in October when home sales plummeted in 38 states, hitting Nevada, Arizona, Florida and California particularly hard, government data showed on Monday. Read more…

Plenty of parents fantasize about their child going to Harvard. But Paula and Gary Goldberg of Boca Raton, Fla. aspire instead to get their daughter Rachael, a high school junior, interested in schools other than Harvard. Read more…

Once-hot housing markets cooled considerably this summer: The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported Monday that the median price of a single-family house in the third quarter dropped 1.2 percent from a year earlier, continuing a reversal of fortune for sellers that started last winter. Read more…

Indianapolis led all U.S. cities in housing affordability during the third quarter, according to a survey released Monday by Wells Fargo and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). Read more…

The Motley Fool - On Monday, Equity Office Properties Trust (NYSE: EOP - News) announced that it had agreed to be acquired by The Blackstone Group in a transaction valued at approximately $36 billion. The terms of the agreement call for Blackstone to acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Equity Office at an 8.5% premium over its closing price on November 17, 2006. Read more…

FT.com - Kensington Group, the UK mortgage lender that specialises in serving customers with poor credit, on Wednesday said that full-year pre-tax profits would be at the bottom end of the range of analysts' expectations and that competition would slow earnings growth next year. Read more…

Americans are involved in a new "space race." According to the American Institute of Architects, Americans are making their outside spaces more and more elaborate - and more like their inside ones. Read more…

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AP - U.S. Rep. Sherwood Boehlert, who is retiring after 24 years in Congress, doesn't plan to settle down in his central New York district. He's selling his home near Utica and taking a part-time job at a think tank in Washington, D.C. Read more…

Click on the iTunes music store and punch in "Beatles" under artist search. More than 50 albums will pop up, including Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Play the Beatles, but none are the real deal. Fans wishing to download the actual Fab Four in MP3 format have to search peer-to-peer sites like Limewire for unlicensed songs they can listen to free. Read more…

Reuters - The pace of existing home sales unexpectedly rose in October to a 6.24 million-unit annual rate as a record drop in prices tempted buyers, the National Association of Realtors said on Tuesday. Read more…

Reuters - U.S. stocks were little changed on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke dimmed hopes for an early interest rate cut by sounding a fresh warning about the risks of inflation. Read more…