Last May, a Salisbury real estate agent was sexually assaulted while showing a home there. According to media reports, the agent met the client at her office in the morning, and they drove together to a house on Secret Garden ...

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With the Charlotte housing market on course for a second year of healthy rebound, real estate professionals across the region are reassessing lessons learned from the housing debacle that nearly derailed the economy, and taking stock of what has changed ...

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February was a rough month for the Charlotte housing market, with sales of area properties plummeting 8.4 percent from the same period last year, according to the Carolina Multiple Listing Service. CarolinaMLS President Joe Rempson blamed the winter weather for ...

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Home sellers have renewed confidence in the housing market, but are anxious about buyers qualifying for loans to buy their homes. A new survey by Redfin of 22 metro areas including Charlotte shows that homeowners are hopeful about real estate ...

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CHARLOTTE – Institutional investors are snapping up 60 percent of the newer homes for sale in North Carolina, according to an analysis by RealtyTrac. The real estate data firm defines these investors as people who bought at least 10 properties ...

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The average U.S. rate for the benchmark 30-year home mortgage climbed over the 4.5 percent mark this month for the first time in more than two years.

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