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Point Breeze Real Estate Scammer Gets the Slammer

According to a U.S Department of Justice release, a Philadelphia man was sentenced last week to almost six years in prison for selling three homes he didn’t own. […]

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Harvard: Some Young Philly Renters Can Actually Afford to Own a Home

The Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) has taken a big pot and stirred in some Census data, Freddie Mac survey results and National […]

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Morning Headlines: Apartment Market Cooling in Center City

On the heels of yesterday’s news about home ownership taking a nosedive comes a report from Delta Associates via the Philadelphia Business Journal outlining an uptick […]

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Heat Map: Home Prices in the Last 10 Years

RealtyTrac released this heat map today, and it’s pretty interesting if you can wrap your head around the various data points on which the map […]

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Philadelphia Is in Top 10 Luxury Homes Markets

When it comes to the housing market, it’s always a case of good-news/bad-news. Let’s start with the bad news: overall, sales are down this year. […]

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Philly Is in Top 10 Metros Where Home Buyers Pay Cash

According to Redfin, 32 percent of homes purchased in 2014 in the country’s 17 largest cities were paid for with cold, hard cash. Since 2011, cash […]

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Midday Headlines: Real Estate Market Edition

Sometimes you hear millennials are the key to the housing recovery. Other times you hear they’re ruining everything. And that’s not the only conflicting report […]

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Morning Headlines: Philadelphia’s Booming Luxury Rental Market

While the for-sale market experiences up and downs in a post-recession world, things are looking pretty good for the luxury rental market in Philadelphia. What […]

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Pew: Housing Market Is the Bright Spot in Philly’s Cloudy Skies

A younger, better educated, upwardly mobile horde has descended on Philadelphia, transforming swaths of the city into something barely recognizable to old-timers. This demographic touched […]

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Morning Headlines: Winter Keeps Homebuyers Away From South Jersey

Cold bursts may be a tiresome frustration for Philadelphians longing for spring, but in South Jersey the implications of cold weather are more concerning: The […]

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Philadelphia: Second Best Market for Home Buying in U.S.

This is good news! Zillow.com has ranked Philadelphia No. 2 in its list of the 10 best buyers’ markets. What does that mean? From Zillow […]

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Adventures in Home Buying: The Appraisal Waiting Game

As I have alluded, we are squarely in the middle of the hurry-up-and-wait phase of home buying. Back in the salad days of February, I […]

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Real Estate Website Uses Kitten GIFs to Attract Readers. Good Idea!

The Llenrock Blog about commercial real estate already has its work cut out for it in attracting readers who aren’t in the biz. And when […]

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Philadelphia Is in Top 10 Most Unequal Metros

Writing for Trulia Trends and The Atlantic Cities, Trulia’s CEO Jed Kolko says what the Occupy movement brought to mainstream consciousness, even as everyone derided […]

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Adventures in Home Buying: The Big Reveal

So yes, as it turns out, we were going to make our decision about buying a house based on 10 minutes talking to a stranger. […]