Real estate news and features

EagleBridge Lands Coolidge Corner Financing
Brian D. Sheehan and Ted M. Sidel of Boston-based EagleBridge Capital have arranged $11 million in mortgage financing for 1285 Beacon St. in Brookline.
EagleBridge arranged the financing with an undisclosed national commercial bank.
The recently completed retail building located in Coolidge Corner is a two-story, 21,226-square-foot building with an architectural block and […]

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Lehman is gone. B of A is growing and Mortgage Rates are on the move - DOWNWARD!!! If you are in the market for a house and doing your budget make sure to update your rate with your lender or call someone in the industry as rates have dropped to 5.75% national average. Check out […]

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By David Debonis of Reliant Mortgage
Mortgage Rates Drop
Wall Street staged its biggest rally in a month Monday as stock investors bet that the government’s move to seize and backstop the USA’s two largest mortgage finance companies will help stabilize the housing market, thaw credit markets and boost the ailing economy.
The jubilant response to the historic […]

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If you are searching for lists and links to real estate blogs - everything from real estate agent bloggers to real estate marketing, industry and news - here are some resources I’ve bookmarked for future reference:
Bloodhound Blogmaintains this  potentially canonical list of real estate weblogs.
Todd Carpenter of Lenderama and Blog Fiesta created REMBEX, a […]

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Bank of Canada’s Carney ponders degree of rate cut - (Reuters) The Bank of Canada has to weigh strong domestic demand against the spillover effects of the slowing U.S. economy when deciding how much to cut interest rates next month, Governor Mark Carney said on Monday. Carney used his first […]

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Canada economy to slow, risks to downside - IMF (Reuters) Canadian economic growth will slow to 1.8 percent this year and there is a risk of an even sharper downturn as weakness in the U.S. economy spreads beyond the housing sector, the International Monetary Fund said in a report on Monday. After growing about 2.5 […]

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Financing Means used by a buyer to acquire an immovable. Financial resource, often in the form of a mortgage loan provided to the buyer by a financial institution for the purchase of an immovable (see Mortgage loan).
Fonds d??™indemnisation du courtage immobilierBody created under the Real Estate Brokerage Act, to which all real estate brokers and […]

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TORONTO, Feb. 15 /CNW/ - BMO Bank of Montreal announced today it is decreasing its residential mortgage rates, effective February 16, 2008. The new rates are: Fixed Rates: ? ? ?  ? ? ?  ? ? ?  ? ? ?  ? ? ?  To: ? ? ?  ? ? ?  ? ? ?  […]

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Attention Las Vegas Real Estate Agents, Mortgage Lenders, Escrow Officers and Small Business Owners….
Kathryn Bovard and I teach a 3 hour continuing education  (PD) class approved by the Nevada Real Estate Commission entitled “Real Estate Blogging 101 - How the Internet is Changing Business”.  We’ve got two classes scheduled for 1st quarter 2008:

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What an amazing experience Bloggers Connect and Real Connect 2007 in San Francisco was!  I posted my 25 Top Tips & Best Ideas About Blogging on my Active Rain Blog.  I invite you to check out what I gleaned as the best comments from the panelists and experts at Connect.
Here are key highlights from […]

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