Buying-Cheaper Than Renting

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Are you thinking about renting? Are you thinking about renting? Now it is cheaper to buy a two-bedroom home than to rent one in most major U.S. cities. According to real estate web site Trulia, buying was cheaper than renting in 74% of the country’s 50 largest cities in July. In just 12% of the… Read More

Wende Sauvage joined Encelium Technologies (The Record and Herald News)

Wende Sauvage of Seattle joined lighting controls manufacturer Encelium Technologies, Teaneck, as corporate real estate sales director. She was a commercial real estate broker for Cushman & Wakefield for nine years.

What You Get for … $1.3 Million (New York Times)

A three-bedroom Victorian in Valley Center, Calif., a condo in Seattle and a stone carriage house in Nyack, N.Y.

Top 5: PDX home prices dip below $240,000 for first time in 4 years (The Oregonian)

FRONT PORCH BLOG: Also in Tuesday’s Top 5 real estate stories: Portland outgains Seattle 4 to 1 in new U.S. migrants / After halting construction for a year, Key Bank lets work begin again on Beaverton project / Home builders’ confidence drops in December / Suits and liens

A home with benefits (Barrie Examiner)

It was at a conference in Seattle when it hit Doug Newby. Charles King, founder of Housing Works in New York City, was addressing the National Gathering on Social Enterprise.[...]