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RealtyTrac Adds Drug Lab, Sex Offender, Environmental Hazard Data

The real estate and housing data source RealtyTrac has always been pretty thorough when it comes to information for the properties listed on its website. […]

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Philadelphia Rental Market Poised for Takeoff

The prospects for new multifamily construction in Philly look good in the long run, a panel of insiders say – but there are some matters […]

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Morning Headlines: Trulia Says Philly Homeowners Are Saving More

To buy or to rent? Chances are the latter seems like the safer option. Yet, according to a recent analysis by Trulia, homebuyers may be […]

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Adventures in Homebuying: Down to the Wire

The very night I stood on the regional rail platform at Temple and found out we’d lost the house on which we intended to make […]

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Adventures in Home Buying: The Poetry Edition

We had seen three houses that left us cold on a marathon Sunday in January. We had also seen one that we loved and another that […]

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Adventures in Home Buying: the (Somewhat) Bad and the (Sort of) Ugly

Letting go was never a skill I acquired. I tend to imagine projects from planning stages through completion and if the results don’t align perfectly, […]

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Adventures in Home Buying: ISO Laughter and Joy

Right now the sea of not-quite-rights and smidge-too-expensives is wide and deep for us in East Falls. I keep waiting for a rush of certainty […]

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Infographic: House Flipping to Millennials, Not Hipsters

RealtyTrac has released a “flipster” report: data, graphics and an infographic all meant to explain where the “hipster” demographic is buying and renting right now. […]

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Adventures in Home Buying: The Not Quite Rights

It took us a few weeks to get over losing the storybook-like house on West Penn Street. Once we did, we behaved like anyone on […]

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Adventures in Home Buying: Never Go House Hunting at Christmas

Somehow in the morass of a very crowded December calendar, we carved out a Sunday afternoon to go on our first official home tours with […]

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Adventures in Home Buying: My Top Five Actual Deal Breakers

Once the gnashing of teeth over the house on Vaux Street ended, we took a little time off from seriously thinking about home buying. It was October […]

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Real Estate Website’s “20 Maps of Philly” Screws Up Real Estate Part

This week, Movoto, an online real estate brokerage, posted “20 Maps Of Philadelphia You Didn’t Study In Geography” on its content marketing blog. It’s really […]

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Philly Is One of Top 10 Cities for Chinese Homebuyers

When people in China consider buying real estate in the U.S. — an increasing trend — the cities they look at most often include Philadelphia, […]

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Market Forecast: “For the First Time in 20 Years, We Have a Growth Story to Tell.”

If the analysts viewing Philly from 10,000 feet put it in the middle of the nation’s large real estate markets, the analysts close to the […]

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Philly Real Estate Market Forecast for 2014: Just Right

Many observers have commented on the “Goldilocks” nature of the Philadelphia regional economy: It’s neither too hot nor too cold, but just right to sustain […]