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United Country Real Estate Office opens in South Lake
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Lothar Knieriemen, owner/broker/ Realtor, has recently affiliated with United Country Real Estate in South Lake Tahoe. His office, known as United Country Tahoe Gateway...
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Design Workshop Tahoe office gives back to community
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Design Workshop, an international landscape architecture, land planning, urban design and strategic services firm, feels unwaveringly compelled to give back to the community...
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Bucking the market and building
CARSON CITY, Nev. - Bob Fredlund wouldn't say the housing market is turning around, even as he waded through the sawdust of a half-built home and lauded its craftsmanship.Fredlund, a real estate agent...
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Carson Valley home sales up, prices down
MINDEN, Nev. - Home sales are up in Carson Valley, but home prices themselves continue to slide, according to data released by the Douglas County Assessor's Office.In the East Fork Township, which...
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US foreclosure activity edged higher in 3Q
LOS ANGELES (AP) - More U.S. homes are entering the foreclosure process, but they're taking ever longer to get sold or repossessed by lenders.The number of U.S. homes that received a first-time...
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California's median home price down 6 percent
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A tracking firm says California's home prices declined in September from their year-ago levels for a 12th consecutive month with bargain-priced short sales and foreclosures making...
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South Tahoe home prices drop in Q3
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - With the median price of South Lake Tahoe homes down in the third quarter of 2011 compared with the third quarter of 2010 and mortgage rates hovering around 4 percent, the...
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Obama offers mortgage relief on Western trip
LAS VEGAS (AP) - President Barack Obama offered mortgage relief on Monday to hundreds of thousands of Americans, his latest attempt to ease the economic and political fallout of a housing crisis that...
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Voters with housing woes giving up on politicians
MESA, Ariz. (AP) - Like just about everyone in the Phoenix area, Jen Pollock has lost several neighbors to foreclosure and short sales. And, like hundreds of thousands of others in Arizona, Pollock...
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Realtors to hold awards and installation dinner Friday
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Amidst the beauty of the lakeside Edgewood Tahoe and the sounds of "Ike & Martin," Amanda Adams, South Lake Tahoe Association of Realtors' 2011 President, will pass the...
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Be aware of state's new carbon monoxide alarm requirements
Effective July 1, 2011, a new law may help prevent senseless carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in the home. CO is formed from the incomplete burning of any flame-fueled (i.e., not electric) device...
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Sierra Sotheby's International Realty's Lake Tahoe office welcomes new Realtors
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Sierra Sotheby's International Realty's office is pleased to announce the addition of Jerry and Gayle Boren to its team of brokers. The husband-and-wife team has extensive...
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Should we rent or buy a home?
So many variables figure into the decision of whether to buy or rent a place to live. We're talking about something profoundly personal - your home, the safe place in which you live, raise your...
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Average 30-year mortgage rate a record 3.91 pct.
WASHINGTON (AP) - The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell to a record 3.91 percent this week, the third time this year that rates have hit new lows.Freddie Mac said Thursday that the...
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Residential market recovers as lower prices draw buyers
RENO/TAHOE - Signs point to a recovery in the residential sales and construction market.Inventories of homes for sale are declining, and lower prices are attracting investors and other buyers.Realtors...
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2011's foreclosure rate lowest since pre-recession
NEW YORK (AP) - About 1.9 million homes entered the foreclosure process in 2011, the lowest level since 2007 when the recession began, according to a report Thursday by the foreclosure listing firm...
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Listed at $24 million, Royal Gorge property up for grabs
DONNER SUMMIT, Calif. - For a group of regional conservationists, what began as a fight against a perceived irresponsible development has evolved into an opportunity to conserve one of the most iconic...
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Foreclosures made up 20 pct. of home sales in 3Q
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Foreclosures made up a smaller slice of all U.S. homes sold in last year's third quarter, as banks delayed placing properties for sale and home sales slowed.Despite the decline,...
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Calif. and NY considering foreclosure-abuse deal
WASHINGTON (AP) - California and New York were considering Monday whether to join most other states in backing a long-awaited settlement with banks over foreclosure abuses. The deal would require the...
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Foreclosure activity edges higher in January
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Banks took back more U.S. homes in January than in the previous month, the latest sign that foreclosures are accelerating after slowing sharply last year while lenders sorted out...
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