RealtyTrac is expanding its Homefacts app to include email alerts that inform subscribers on the latest property information. Data available to consumers includes updated crime statistics, details of environmental hazards such as underground storage tanks and spills, and changes in ...

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It appears that owning a home is more profitable for men than for women. Both market value and appreciation rates are higher for single men owning a home than for single women, according to a recent report from RealtyTrac. The ...

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Those selling their homes last year in the Charlotte metro realized, on average, a $23,000 gain on their purchase price, according to RealtyTrac. The return for the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia region, which amounted to about 14 percent of the purchase price, was ...

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RealtyTrac has launched a website that provides consumers with property reports that might affect their decision to buy or rent a home. Users of the Home Disclosure application, upon entering an address, can access data such as the number of ...

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Although home sales in the Charlotte market dropped off in August from July, they are at an eight-year high for the first eight months of the year, according to RealtyTrac. Sales of single-family residences and condos grew to 22,262 between ...

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The Charlotte region and North Carolina are seeing an increasing number of homes reverting to bank ownership, and on a much larger scale than seen across the nation. According to RealtyTrac, the number of bank repossessions in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia region ...

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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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Mecklenburg County and the Charlotte metro area saw increases in scheduled auctions and bank repossessions on foreclosed properties last month, according to real estate information and analytics provider RealtyTrac. Bank repossessions in the county rose to 103 last month from ...

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Home price appreciation has outpaced wage growth in the Charlotte metro area over the last two years by a ratio of 7 to 1, making it more difficult to save for a down payment and afford monthly mortgage payments. Average ...

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House flippers in the Charlotte region saw decreases in their gross profits and returns on investment in the fourth quarter when compared with the third quarter. The average gross profit for the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia metropolitan statistical area was $41,678 in the ...

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