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By: Urban Trekker
3May2010“How is the market?” That’s usually the first intro question that anyone I’d met in my past career life as a Realtor, would ask me. Listening to what agents have told me, at the present time, there is a shortage of supply. According to the ne...
By: Urban Trekker
19Apr2010This show is part of PBS' Blueprint America series about U.S. infrastructure, where Kojo Nnamdi hosts a panel of transportation experts to talk about the metro Washington DC transportation blueprint and where's taking us. The first 5 minutes or so is...
By: Urban Trekker
10Apr2010Image by Getty Images via Daylife Looking to fix up your house? Here are the 10 tax breaks for going green, via Forbes. If you fix up your house. $1,500 off your tax bill - a 30% credit for the first $5,000 you spend in 2009 or 2010 for improvements...
By: Urban Trekker
22Mar2010You know that all real estate is local. This is the local forecast for our market for 2010-2011. According to data recently released by First American Core Logic, home prices for Washington DC- Arlington- Alexandria including sale of distressed homes...
By: Urban Trekker
15Mar2010The other day I posted Getting to Walkability presentation from DC office of Planning. It got me thinking that the same method can also be used by buyers. DC is using the walkability for different things related to planning, for transportation and ne...
By: Urban Trekker
12Mar2010Image via Wikipedia This is FHA saying. An increase in down payments to 5%, from the current minimum 3.5%, would limit new FHA-backed loans by 40%, equivalent to 300,000 fewer home sales, according to testimony that FHA Commissioner David Stevens is...
By: Urban Trekker
23Feb2010IF you're buying sometime in the FY 2010 to 2020, learning the details on transportation planning slated for Northern Virginia, probably won't hurt. Just to make sure that the property you're buying is not going to ended up in some sort of eminent do...
