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Media company joins real estate auction venture Premium Content

By Glenn Roberts Jr., Monday, August 25, 2008.
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The Los Angeles Times Media Group has joined a real estate auction venture that has a focus on selling bank-owned foreclosure properties and builder-owned properties.

Dubbed Zetabid, the partnership seeks to bring new advertising opportunities to the media company in a time of declining ad revenue while broadening the pool of potential buyers for properties sold at auction.  more...

Home inspection nightmare: Attic access denied

By Barry Stone, Monday, August 25, 2008.

DEAR BARRY: When we bought our home, the sellers prevented our home inspector from inspecting the attic. They simply told him that there was no access, and he merely confirmed this in his inspection report. We later discovered that the access was on the wall of the master closet, behind some clothes. Our concern now is whether we have asbestos insulation in our attic. If so, are the sellers liable for asbestos removal? --Kim  more...

Utopria brings property listings to iPhone

By Joel Burslem, Monday, August 25, 2008.

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve seen a handful of companies launch real estate search tools for the iPhone, but Canadian company Utopria is the first out of the gates to take the listing flyer and single property web site and bring it onto the mobile platform.

I gotta say. I love this thing.  more...

NAR: Resale home prices, sales fall

By Inman News, Monday, August 25, 2008.

The sales rate for of U.S. resale homes dropped 13.2 percent in July compared to the same month last year, and the national median price dropped 7.1 percent, the National Association of Realtors reported today.  more...

Obama's housing plan is long on rhetoric Premium Content

By Marcie Geffner, Monday, August 25, 2008.
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As Democratic delegates and power brokers prepare in Denver, Colo., for the political party's presidential convention that begins tonight, real estate and mortgage professionals and homeowners may be curious about likely nominee Barak Obama's housing proposals.

The candidate's three-page housing policy statement doesn't say how many houses Obama owns (one), but offers plenty of speculation about ...  more...

Finding 'best value' in local markets

By Inman News, Monday, August 25, 2008.

ZipRealty, a full-service residential real estate brokerage, announced a new online tool at ZipRealty.com that allows site users to vote on whether a particular listing is a good value.  more...

Point2 to syndicate Realcomp listings

By Inman News, Monday, August 25, 2008.

Michigan's biggest multiple listing service, Realcomp, will send listings to syndicator Point2 Technologies Inc. when authorized by member brokers and agents, the companies said today.

Realcomp members will be able to send their listings to any or all of Point2's more than 30 listing syndication partners, including Cyberhomes, eBay, Google Base, Homescape, Point2 Homes, Trulia and Zillow.com.  more...