Charlotte Regional Realtor Association members traveled to Washington last week for the National Association of Realtors annual party convention and trade expo. As part of the visit to the nation’s capital, delegates from Charlotte met with North Carolina congressional leaders ...

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CHARLOTTE – One of the biggest landlords in the land now lords it over the re-swelling ranks of the Charlotte region’s Realtors. His name is Joe Rempson, vice president of T.R Lawing Realty Inc., and as of Jan. 1 the ...

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CHARLOTTE – Curt Seifart with Helen Adams Realty received the 2013 Humanitarian Award from the Charlotte Regional Realtor Association’s Housing Opportunity Foundation at its annual meeting and awards ceremony at the Crowne Plaza Executive Park on Dec. 13. In recognition ...

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A low inventory of homes for sale in the Charlotte market is driving existing home prices up, according to data for November released by the Charlotte Regional Realtor Association. Charlotte’s median sales price increased 9.4 percent to $175,000 in November ...

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CHARLOTTE – The year ahead will be “good, not great” for the housing market, with an anticipated 5 percent growth in housing sales from 2013, according to forecast Freddie Mac’s Chief Economist Frank Nofthat delivered to an audience of real ...

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CHARLOTTE – Pending homes sales continued to slide for the fifth consecutive month in October, according to research released by the National Association of Realtors. The NAR said that its seasonally adjusted pending home sales index fell by 0.6 percent ...

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CHARLOTTE – More homebuyers paid with cash in October – and not just institutional investors, who bought a smaller share of the homes sold, while cash purchases overall topped 50 percent for the first time in 19 months. “We have ...

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We’ve known for a while that institutional investors – led by the behemoth Blackstone Group – are making big investments in the Charlotte housing market. Now we know the extent of their investment, and the extent to which they are ...

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CHARLOTTE – October homes sales figures for the Charlotte metro area increased by 10 percent from the year before, with closed sales for the month at 2,831 compared to 2,574 in October 2012, according to numbers released by the Charlotte ...

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As the housing market continues to recover, tough mortgage requirements are preventing some buyers from entering the market, according to a new survey by the National Association of Realtors. In its annual profile of homebuyers and sellers, the association found ...

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