The American Bar Association this month will be asked to endorse a proposed uniform law aiming at new standards for state government websites that host legal materials. The Uniform Electronic Legal Materials Act is proposed by the Uniform Laws Commission to address a trend, still in its infancy, of shuttering public printers and posting laws only online. But shifting an entire system of laws to online-only postings puts our legal system at risk.
Kerry Beach knows firsthand that syndicated real estate listings on the Internet aren’t always accurate.
Sometimes the listing agent’s name is missing or just plain wrong. Sometimes the asking price isn’t correct or a home is listed for sale long after it’s been sold.
And, sometimes, the listings omit those oh-so-important details that hook a buyer.
“A client [...]
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It’s 1 p.m. on an average Wednesday, and Tamara Lynch of Charlotte-based M/I Homes is holding an average ad for some properties in the city. But one thing about it is different than ads of yesteryear: a small collection of black-and-white squares on [...]
Seattle-based real estate information company Zillow is putting its real estate apps across more platforms.
Android Tablet is the newest gadget running a Zillow real estate app, the eighth for the company.
The free app, announced this week, is the only real estate app for Android Tablet that allows home shoppers to select multiple homes to compare [...]
With its data center in Maiden kicking into high gear after the launch of the iCloud service in October, Apple is preparing a solar farm for supplemental power on part of its 170 acres off Startown Road.
The 100-acre project is described in Catawba County permit filings as “Solar panel farm A.”
Costs have not been disclosed, but Cupertino, [...]
Age: 33
Lives in: Monroe
Family: husband, Bobby, 34; children, Trae, 12, Caroline, 7, Peyton, 3
Education: bachelor’s degree in financial management, East Carolina University
Lisa Ludlow Archer has combined two passions: real estate and Internet marketing.
It’s a marriage that’s paid off — big time: Keller Williams Team Ludlow, for which she is a broker, has already tripled its business from [...]
Age: 63
Lives in: Monroe
Family: wife, Jean, 69; daughter, Beth Luebbert, 44
Education: associate in business, Kings College
When Dan Johnson became a real estate agent in 1977, there wasn’t a multiple listing service like there is today.
Instead, real estate agents met once a week to compile listings of available properties in a book and compare notes.
Today, he’s [...]
You could say real estate website Zillow drives Charlotte real estate Scott Lindsley a little crazy.
Zillow, a Seattle-based database that lists homes for sale and rent and features “Zestimates” of property values, refers to itself as an “enormously helpful real estate site.”
But for Lindsley, it results in one out of every five of his clients, [...]
The idea of high-tech companies being drawn to the western North Carolina foothills might sound strange to some people.
To tech giant Apple, which is building a data center in the Catawba County town of Maiden, it sounds like a good idea.
The project, announced last year, has some in the real estate industry hopeful for an [...]
Kannapolis officials held a “virtual groundbreaking” at the North Carolina Research Campus a week ago today to promote the second phase of a statewide project to bring broadband access to rural areas, including some in the Charlotte area.
The $105 million project, funded with $75 million from the federal stimulus program, includes the installation of 1,650 miles of broadband [...]
