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N.C. home sales up, prices down

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: March 29,2012

Existing-home sales in North Carolina grew by 22 percent in February from the same month last year, according to a report released Tuesday by the North Carolina Association of Realtors. But the average selling price fell over the period. Last month, 5,881 homes sold, up from 4,810 in February 2011. The average price last month [...]


Home sales up 8 percent in November (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: December 30,2011

November marked the fifth consecutive month of year-over-year improvement with an 8 percent increase statewide in existing home sales when compared to the previous year.


Commercial brokers laud new lien law (access required)

By Scott Baughman
Published: November 15,2011

Commercial real estate brokers who took a haircut on commissions used to have the courts as the only option to get the money they were owed. But in June, North Carolina became the 29th state to enact a commercial broker lien law, giving brokers the right to obtain a lien as a remedy against a [...]


Area real estate 
agents triumph at NCAOR (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: September 20,2011

All three Charlotte-area real estate agents running for 2012 board positions with the North Carolina Association of Realtors were successful in their bids. Cindy Chandler of The Chandler Group was elected to the NCAOR National Association of Realtors director position. Tony Smith of Wanda Smith & Associates was elected the Region 8 vice president. Kent [...]


Bad form? (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: August 30,2011

This month, 61-year-old John Lee was out in the cold — or, rather, the August heat — when he was evicted from his south Charlotte rental home near the airport. Although he was behind on rent for June, which is what started the eviction process, he says Carolina United Realty, the 4108 Park Road-based property [...]


Charlotte 
agents seek NCAOR seats (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: August 22,2011

Three Charlotte real estate agents are running for board positions with the North Carolina Association of Realtors. Tony Smith, a Realtor with Wanda Smith & Associates and a past member of the board of directors of the Charlotte Regional Realtor Association, is running for Region 8 vice president. Two members of the Charlotte Region Commercial Board of [...]


Land transfer tax repeal gets final NC House OK

By The Associated Press
Published: March 8,2011

RALEIGH — The Republican-controlled House agreed today to try to undo a law that gives counties the chance to raise the tax on land and building transactions and keep the extra revenue. The land transfer tax option — passed by Democrats four years ago — would be repealed in legislation approved 78-38 and sent to [...]