By using Etuovi.com´s mobile application, users can search on-sale-apartments near their current location at a given time. It is also possible to narrow down the search based on price, square area, number of rooms and type of property.
- It is more and more common to use online services on mobile devices today. Mobile versions of real estate services are most commonly used by people who are thinking of buying a new apartment in the next few months.
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Our Christmas tree this year
The holiday season is well upon us and no matter what holiday or tradition your celebrate its always important to remember some helpful safety tips. Fire is a common concern during the holidays and the two most common culprits of holiday fires or lighting and the Christmas tree.
Below are some tips from local home inspector Jefferson Livingston with Pillar to Post Home Inspection Services on keeping your Christmas Tree and Holiday lighting safe this season:
Christmas Tree Safety Tips:
- If youre buying a live Christmas tree, buy a freshly cut one that is not already dried out.
- Place tree away from ignition sources like fire places, heaters, candles, radiators and combustible materials.
- Water your tree regularly to keep it fresh.
- Buy fire resistant tree.
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More than 18,000 Maryland homeowners have received formal warnings from their mortgage servicers so far this month that a foreclosure case could be filed against them in as little as 45 days.
That sounds like a big number, and it sure is after about a year of mostly suppressed activity as a result of the robo-signing scandal. Fewer than 11,000 notices of intent to file for foreclosure were sent to Marylanders in all of November 2010, according to the state.
Maryland regulators believe the big increase is a sign that some of the backlog created when revelations of robo-signing ground the foreclosure apparatus to a crawl could be starting to hit now.
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WASHINGTON -
How big a whack did your credit scores take during the grim years of economic distress following the housing bust? Was it 20 points, 50 points, 100 points – or maybe no drop at all?
These are key questions affecting millions of potential homebuyers who hope to qualify for mortgages and current owners looking to refinance. New research from a major credit-risk evaluation company suggests that the drop in huge numbers of Americans’ scores was dramatic.
FICO (formerly known as Fair Isaac Corp.), which developed and markets the eponymous score that dominates the home mortgage field, found that during 2008-09, approximately 50 million consumers in this country saw their FICO scores plunge by more than 20 points.
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Earlier this week, SP Indices released data through the end of September 2011 that showed little change in national home prices on a quarter-over-quarter basis.
SP/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices data revealed just a slight 0.1 percent increase in the U.S. National Home Price Index from the second quarter (Q2) of 2011 to the third quarter (Q3) of 2011.
Home prices drifted lower in September and the third quarter, David M. Blitzer, Chairman of the Index Committee at SP Indices, said in a statement. The National Index was down 3.9% versus the third quarter of 2010 and up only 0.1% from the previous quarter.
On a year-over-year basis, home prices declined 3.9 percent in Q3.
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Weve all seen the giant impact that mobile technology has had on our industry and continues to have as the years pass by. I saw this great infographic the other day and it reminded me entirely of how technology evolves to dramatically over the years. Sometimes its fascinating to look back at a device which we all used to have but has slowly become replaced with this emerging technology.
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