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The typical home buyer only moves 15 miles from their current residence, but realtor.com®‘s Top Moving Destinations analysis shows that metros that offer relative affordability, strong employment, and large boomer populations can entice people to pull the trigger on an ...

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  Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P. has announced that it has closed the sale of and arranged acquisition financing for Charlotte Pike Storage, a newly constructed, 952-unit, state-of-the-art self storage facility in Nashville, Tennessee, that is now third-party managed by Public ...

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Forty states added construction jobs between July 2018 and July 2019, while construction employment increased in 25 states from June to July, according to an analysis by the Associated General Contractors of America of Labor Department data released today. Association ...

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Levine Family Office has announced the purchase of The Wells Fargo Building, located at 4525 Sharon Road across from SouthPark Mall, for $13,650,000. The acquisition officially closed on August 15, 2019. “The Wells Fargo Building is a great addition to ...

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ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database and first property data provider of Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), today released its Q3 2019 Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report showing there are over 1.5 million (1,530,563) U.S. single-family homes and condos vacant ...

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While the adage, “first comes love, then comes marriage,” may ring true, for many millennials, “first comes home, then comes marriage.” According to a new SunTrust survey conducted online by The Harris Poll among over 2,000 U.S. adults, nearly half ...

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ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database and first property data provider of Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), today released its Midyear 2019 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report, which shows a total of 296,458 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions ...

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More than a year after the historic tax code overhaul, less than half of homebuyers (47%) say that tax reform has had an effect on their home search, according to a March survey commissioned by Redfin (www.redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. ...

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Pending home sales continued to ascend in June, marking two consecutive months of growth, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Each of the four major regions recorded a rise in contract activity, with the West experiencing the highest surge. ...

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Continued economic expansion, rising home sales and an increase in wage growth that is on par with home price growth are some of the expectations for the second half of 2019. Dr. Lawrence Yun, Chief Economist at the National Association of ...

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