Second Shelters
Barrons is bragging how they called it: the second home market has bottomed, and the rich are out swooping up the bargains. Prices of high-end second homes have sunk, some as low as 40%. And Barrons lists the top second home markets in the US. Sea Island, Georgia was rated number one. Next comes Maui,…
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This home in Rockport, Texas is only $29,000 but listed on CNN’s America’s Ugliest homes report. Why are three of the ugliest homes in the U.S.A. on this list from Texas? Rockport, Houston and oh dear — Fort Worth! PS: Blow the leaves, clean up the toys, this place might not look so bad!
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Now this really sends me out for Happy Pills: my colleague Rob Hahn over at AOL Real estate says we really need to get ready for 20% down payments IF WE ARE LUCKY! Yep, I’ve been having this convo with many housing experts: first of all, the Obama admin really wants to scale down home…
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Several of my friends have ditched Park Cities/Preston Hollow for The Peninsula — why? Check out this listing by Janice Parson at 9217 Peninsula Drive — on the market for $675,000 — and not even built yet! (The price includes the house completed at 2700 square feet.) A mid century modern flair, the builder is…
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You are looking for the best real estate values in greater Dallas, right? You want a maintenance, headache-free first or second home close to that great maker of getaways, D/FW Airport. Yet you continue to look in Dallas. Are you crazy? Las Colinas is right next door, closer to D/FW, and has some of the…
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Bloomberg and Forbes are always doing these “most this, most that” lists and this time, they bring us the most expensive blocks in the U.S. — that is, the streets where the wealthiest live. The only Texas block to make the cut was number 7, Houston’s Afton Oaks and River Oaks. Otherwise, it’s Kenilworth, Ill;…
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