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Thursday June 20, 2013 Edition
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NATIONAL REAL ESTATE MARKET NEWS FROM THE WIRE
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06/17/2013 11:15
A Real Estate Broker Pre-License Exam course will be offered through Linn-Benton Community College beginning June 26.
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06/14/2013 13:01
A Manhattan real estate broker featured on the hit reality show “Million Dollar Listing New York” was spotted on a recent episode digitally enhancing promotional photos of a $7 million home. During a May episode, Luis Ortiz, 26, and his brother used Photoshop to alter...
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06/15/2013 19:09
Editor’s note: Glenn Kelman is the CEO of Redfin, a technology-powered real estate broker backed by Madrona Venture Group and Greylock Partners. Well what do you know! After writing on TechCrunch for the past year about how Silicon Valley’s Gatsbyesque wealth couldn’t find much real estate to buy, Bay Area inventory is up . Bidding wars are down . And rising rates are squeezing buyers who have ...
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06/14/2013 06:04
A real estate agent has been censured and ordered to pay costs after she sold a property with an asbestos ceiling when she had assured the buyer it did not contain the potentially harmful material.Rachel Wright, who at the time...
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06/15/2013 12:47
A Boca Raton real estate agent admitted Friday that he sent inappropriate text messages to two girls — ages 15 and 17 — and gave them money so he could take lewd photos of them.
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06/06/2013 12:35
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- N-Play , a company that has created a popular real estate agent platform on Facebook, has launched the first available agent lead generation and advertising ...
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06/18/2013 15:21
A 49-year-old Boca Raton real estate agent pleaded guilty to a federal charge of enticing a minor to engage in an illegal sexual activity.
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06/14/2013 17:31
Buying or selling a house soon? What you don't know about the industry could cost you. Your real estate agent won't tell you, but we will.
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06/13/2013 16:00
Wayne J. Chi, Zephyr Real Estate agent and broker, has been invited to join a multi-million dollar Silicon Valley investment fund as an advisor. First Partners Real Estate Investments, LLC is a Silicon ...
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06/13/2013 05:52
The Real Housewives’ hair extensions aren’t the only fakes on Bravo’s reality TV. A slick Manhattan real-estate broker is being investigated by the state after clumsily doctoring photos of a Greenwich Village town house to make it look less tacky for an episode of the network’s popular...
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06/16/2013 20:01
Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:01:12 GMT By Chris Bristol Yakima Herald-Republic Photos by GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic Luis Gomez-Monges is escorted out of Yakima County Superior Court on Tuesday after being arraigned on attempted murder and assault charges in connection with last month’s ambush attack on Yakima real estate broker Vern Holbrook. YAKIMA, Wash. — A couple accused of stalking and ...
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06/17/2013 13:00
SEATTLE, June 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Technology-powered real estate brokerage Redfin ( www.redfin.com ) today released its Real-Time Home Price Tracker, posting gains in both prices and sales volume ...
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06/15/2013 19:09
Editor’s note: Glenn Kelman is the CEO of Redfin, a technology-powered real estate broker backed by Madrona Venture Group and Greylock Partners. Well what do you know! After writing on TechCrunch for the past year about how Silicon Valley’s Gatsbyesque wealth couldn’t find much real estate to buy, Bay Area inventory is up . Bidding wars are down . And rising rates are squeezing buyers who have ...
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06/14/2013 13:01
A Manhattan real estate broker featured on the hit reality show “Million Dollar Listing New York” was spotted on a recent episode digitally enhancing promotional photos of a $7 million home. During a May episode, Luis Ortiz, 26, and his brother used Photoshop to alter...
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06/17/2013 11:15
A Real Estate Broker Pre-License Exam course will be offered through Linn-Benton Community College beginning June 26.
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06/17/2013 20:39
SPARTA — Dominick Prevete, regional vice president of Weichert Realtors, announced that sales associate Duffy Brennan was named a five-star real estate agent by New Jersey Monthly Magazine and Five Star Professional, an independent provider of localized research on the performance of service professionals, for the second consecutive year.
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06/16/2013 04:39
A sixth-generation Orlando resident and a Kissimmee real-estate agent are among those profiting -- sometimes handsomely -- from the quick-turnaround resale of Central Florida homes to private-equity companies and other investors eager to take advantage of the region's recovering housing market.
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06/18/2013 12:00
SEATTLE, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Zillow, Inc. (NASDAQ: Z), the leading real estate and home-related information marketplace, today launched Agentfolio™ in Chicago and will follow with Boston, New ...
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06/06/2013 12:35
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- N-Play , a company that has created a popular real estate agent platform on Facebook, has launched the first available agent lead generation and advertising ...
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06/14/2013 14:28
EXCLUSIVE: One Singapore real estate agent has launched an online petition in a bid to force consumers to pay the GST on their rental fees.
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06/15/2013 12:47
A Boca Raton real estate agent admitted Friday that he sent inappropriate text messages to two girls — ages 15 and 17 — and gave them money so he could take lewd photos of them.
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06/16/2013 23:12
Almost 200 Singapore real estate agents have now signed an online petition to make the payment of GST mandatory on their deals.The petition to Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) President Greg Seow was launched on Friday by Jason Lim of Vestor Realty. Lim and other agents have become increasingly frustrated at having to absorb GST when clients simply refuse to pay.As of Monday morning 193 agents ...
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06/14/2013 17:31
Buying or selling a house soon? What you don't know about the industry could cost you. Your real estate agent won't tell you, but we will.
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06/13/2013 16:00
Wayne J. Chi, Zephyr Real Estate agent and broker, has been invited to join a multi-million dollar Silicon Valley investment fund as an advisor. First Partners Real Estate Investments, LLC is a Silicon ...
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06/06/2013 05:09
Whatever happened to Baby Jane? She scammed a real-estate broker-to-the-stars out of a fat commission on the sale of a $16 million Upper East Side triplex, a new lawsuit claims. Manhattan broker Joanna Cutler filed suit in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday against former Andy Warhol protégée “Baby Jane” Holzer and...
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06/13/2013 05:52
The Real Housewives’ hair extensions aren’t the only fakes on Bravo’s reality TV. A slick Manhattan real-estate broker is being investigated by the state after clumsily doctoring photos of a Greenwich Village town house to make it look less tacky for an episode of the network’s popular...
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06/13/2013 16:00
Wayne J. Chi, Zephyr Real Estate agent and broker, has been invited to join a multi-million dollar Silicon Valley investment fund as an advisor. First Partners Real Estate Investments, LLC is a Silicon ...
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06/15/2013 04:08
Another independently owned real estate agency is closing shop in Palm Beach, its broker heading to a much larger firm on the island. Jeffrey A. Cloninger, a former president of the Palm Beach Board of Realtors, announced Friday that he is closing Jeffrey A. Cloninger & Associates on Bradley Place to join Sotheby’s International Realty’s sales team as a broker-associate. “After 13 years ...
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06/16/2013 20:01
Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:01:12 GMT By Chris Bristol Yakima Herald-Republic Photos by GORDON KING/Yakima Herald-Republic Luis Gomez-Monges is escorted out of Yakima County Superior Court on Tuesday after being arraigned on attempted murder and assault charges in connection with last month’s ambush attack on Yakima real estate broker Vern Holbrook. YAKIMA, Wash. — A couple accused of stalking and ...
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06/15/2013 19:09
Editor’s note: Glenn Kelman is the CEO of Redfin, a technology-powered real estate broker backed by Madrona Venture Group and Greylock Partners. Well what do you know! After writing on TechCrunch for the past year about how Silicon Valley’s Gatsbyesque wealth couldn’t find much real estate to buy, Bay Area inventory is up . Bidding wars are down . And rising rates are squeezing buyers who have ...
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