Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Carolinas Realty welcomes three sales associates. Fonda Maddalone joins the Ballantyne-area office, Lori Moon joins the Lake Norman office, and Nilou Saniri joins the SouthPark office. In addition, Marty Briggs has been named managing broker of Berkshire ...

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Realtors and buyers are becoming more resourceful and creative in order to find properties in light of a continuing dearth of housing inventory. The area’s growth and homeowners’ reluctance to sell have caused a shortage in available houses for sale, ...

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Nancy Braun was recently ranked seventh nationally in transactions, according to REAL Trends and The Wall Street Journal’s Top 1,000 Real Estate Professionals. Braun, the owner and broker-in-charge of Showcase Realty, was ranked 11th in 2014. RE/MAX Executive Realty has ...

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Homes bought by institutional investors in April in the Charlotte area reached a record high of 737, according to RealtyTrac, whose records begin in January 2011. The percentage of homes purchased in the region by institutional investors in April was ...

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The rate of North Carolinians who have repurchased homes with restored credit after losing their home in the housing bust has trailed most states, but is expected to outpace the national average between now and 2023, according to data released ...

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The number of the Charlotte area’s mortgaged homes with negative equity fell to 6.8 percent in the third quarter of 2014 from 8.4 percent in third quarter 2013, according to CoreLogic. The third-quarter 2014 figure rose slightly, however, from the ...

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Showcase Realty has been selected for the 2014 Inner City 100, a list of the nation’s fastest-growing inner city businesses compiled by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and Fortune. The real estate company, based in Charlotte’s South End, ...

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Some homebuyers associate foreclosures with bargain-basement prices and oodles of profits. Others view the prospect of a distressed-home purchase as rife with potential pitfalls, including hidden rehab costs and multiple title liens. The truth lies somewhere in the middle. Although ...

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Scheduled foreclosure auctions in Mecklenburg County increased 46 percent in July compared with last year, after 19 consecutive months of annual decreases, according to data from RealtyTrac, a national real estate analytics company. Also, the data indicated that more Charlotte ...

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Eight Charlotte area Realtors or teams have been included in the Real Leigh Brown and Associates also was named this week to two of The Wall Street Journal/REAL Trends Top 1000 lists for sales. At No. 7 for Top 250 ...

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