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Monthly Statistics Released for February 2010 - Sales Up 49 Percent!

Property sales up 49 percent in February 2010; pending sales spike Overall property sales reached 528 in the Sarasota market in February 2010, up nearly 49 percent over February 2009, and pending sales were also strong at 967 - the second highest total Read More...
Posted Friday, March 12, 2010 1:34 PM by Chaim Gleitmann | 0 Comments

HOME AND CONDO SALES CONTINUE TO INCREASE STATEWIDE

HOME AND CONDO SALES CONTINUE TO INCREASE STATEWIDE Fourth quarter 2009 sales of existing single-family homes in Sarasota -Bradenton rose 51 percent over the same period in 2008, with 2,468 homes sold at a median price of $160,600, according to the Florida Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 16, 2010 9:54 AM by Chaim Gleitmann | 0 Comments

Sarasota Real Estate December 2009 Sales Highest in 33 Months!

January 13, 2010 With 648 total property sales reported in December 2009, the Sarasota real estate market saw the most closed transactions since March 2007, a 33 month span. Overall sales in December 2009 were also 52 percent higher than December 2008, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, January 13, 2010 3:00 PM by Chaim Gleitmann | 0 Comments

Real Estate Evaluation Tips

Investing in the real estate market is an incredibly popular and at the moment potentially risky endeavor in the United States. It is often a very positive and profitable investment however and many people who are in the right market areas are quite frequently Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:48 PM by Chaim Gleitmann | 0 Comments

November 2009 Sales Up 86 Percent!

The Sarasota real estate market remained hot in November 2009 with overall sales nearly 86 percent higher than November 2008. Total sales stood at 578 in November, mirroring last month’s total of 574 and much higher than the 311 sales reported in Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 16, 2009 5:23 AM by Chaim Gleitmann | 0 Comments

FHA Loans To Get Costlier

It’s about to get more expensive to take out—and a bit harder to qualify for—a loan insured by the Federal Housing Administration . Faced with rising losses and falling reserves, the FHA is preparing a series of tweaks to its underwriting Read More...
Posted Wednesday, December 02, 2009 4:40 PM by Chaim Gleitmann | 0 Comments

October sales in Sarasota market continue strong pace

Strong property sales in the Sarasota market in October 2009 continued to provide ample evidence of a market in recovery, with overall sales nearly 36 percent higher than October 2008. Total sales stood at 574 in October, compared to 364 total sales in Read More...
Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 1:51 PM by Chaim Gleitmann | 0 Comments

Mortgage Modification Assistance Helping Distressed Home Owners

Changing or amending one or several aspects of a mortgage agreement is called loan modification . Loan modification is normally used by mortgage companies to help mortgage holders but can be used to alter the terms of any loan or debt obligation. Over Read More...
Posted Sunday, November 08, 2009 9:25 AM by Chaim Gleitmann | 0 Comments

Fraud Watch for Homeowners

MORTGAGE fraud continues to expand, in both the number of incidents and the methods that criminals use to strip equity from homeowners and lenders. Now a new online service offers free help to keep homeowners safe from an emerging form of fraud known Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 31, 2009 10:47 AM by Chaim Gleitmann | 0 Comments

Housing to Bottom Out in March

Is the pain almost over? First American CoreLogic is predicting that its U.S. home-price index will bottom out in March. The Santa Ana, Calif.-based research firm said the index in August was down 10.1% from a year earlier. That represented a slowing Read More...
Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 8:17 AM by Chaim Gleitmann | 0 Comments

Chaim Gleitmann Earns TRC Certification

Chaim Gleitmann Earns TRC Certification SARASOTA, FL – Chaim Gleitmann, a Realtor Consultant with Xena Vallone Realty, has demonstrated his expertise in international real estate transactions with the completion of the Transnational Referral Certification Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 4:35 PM by Chaim Gleitmann | 0 Comments

Sarasota shines on 'Today' show

Sarasota shines on 'Today' show A real estate guru cites the region as a place to land a bargain var collab_title = 'Sarasota shines on 'Today' show'; By Tom Bayles Published: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, October Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 6:03 AM by Chaim Gleitmann | 0 Comments

Mortgages New Rules Coming Soon

STATES have taken the lead in adopting laws to protect consumers from some of the problem loans that helped trigger the home foreclosure crisis, but the federal government is now stepping up its efforts. On Oct. 1, new rules adopted by the Federal Reserve Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 26, 2009 5:14 AM by Chaim Gleitmann | 0 Comments

Mental Recession Redux?

Mental Recession Redux? September 25, 2009 by Brian Summerfield · 1 Comment Filed under: Economics , Mortgage Financing By Brian Summerfield, Online Editor, REALTOR® Magazine In July 2008, in the heat of the presidential election, McCain campaign Read More...
Posted Friday, September 25, 2009 3:05 PM by Chaim Gleitmann | 0 Comments