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As the spring home buying season kicks off, a new survey from the National Association of Realtors® shows that 83 percent of buyers’ agents say that staging makes it easier for buyers to visualize a property as their future home, according to ...

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  Lincoln Harris, one of the Southeast’s preeminent commercial real estate development, investment and property management companies, today announced plans for a major restatement of the vision for Phillips Place, the first-of-its-kind SouthPark mixed-use development that changed the Charlotte retail ...

Realtor.com®, the Home of Home Search℠, today released a revised 2019 housing forecast, which shows the outlook for the real estate market this year is somewhat stronger than originally forecasted. Based on a shift in the economic outlook and slower pace of ...

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On April 29th, one lucky bidder will own a golf course lot on Old North State Golf Course, while benefiting one of the area’s most notorious charities. Charlotte-based real estate and auction firm Modern Brokerage will be conducting the online ...

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Nationwide, homes with open houses sell for $9,046 more and spend seven fewer days on the market than homes without open houses, according to a new report from Redfin (www.redfin.com), the tech-powered real estate brokerage. The analysis looked at  homes that were listed in ...

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Results from the Q1 2019 USG Corporation + U.S. Chamber of Commerce Commercial Construction Index (Index) indicate the labor shortage continues to pose major challenges to the industry, causing firms to ask skilled workers to do more work (81%), struggle to meet ...

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Homeowners 62 and older saw their housing wealth grow by 1.4 percent or $98 billion in the fourth quarter to a record $7.05 trillion from Q3 2018, the National Reverse Mortgage Lenders Association reported today in its quarterly release of the NRMLA/RiskSpan Reverse Mortgage ...

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The economy of the United States and North Carolina continues to grow and is a few months shy of being the longest economic expansion on record, UNC Charlotte professor and economist John Connaughton says. During the Barings/UNC Charlotte Economic Forecast ...

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The shortage of housing affordable to moderate-income home buyers – including first-time buyers — and solutions to increase the supply are explored in a new report from the Urban Land Institute’s (ULI) Terwilliger Center for Housing and leading real estate ...

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Headline economic growth for 2019 continues to be forecast at 2.2 percent, down from 3.0 percent in 2018, according to the Fannie Mae Economic and Strategic Research (ESR) Group’sApril outlook. The fading impact of last year’s fiscal stimulus as well as ...

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