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Those of us in real estate know that when the housing market plummets, vacation places plummet the most. Second homes are most often discretionary purchases you wait on until you feel flush with cash. Well, get ready. Realtors say second-home buyers are returning to the store, shopping from Cape Cod to Lake Tahoe. As I…
Push, shove, honk. God, I don’t have to tell you this, you know it already from the traffic. Dallas is one of the top ten cities in the US where everyone is moving. Those ten are, according to the nice people at U-Haul, Washington, D.C., Phoenix and Mesa (meh), Houston, Seattle Bellevue Everett — too…
Update 3:23 p.m. Just heard from the folks at Prairie Crossing, who have invited me up for a visit next time I’m in Chicagoland. I will check it out, bring you a full report! Republic Property Group will soon be bringing North Texas a whole lot of new homes. After recession-induced delay, Light Farms, a…
Own A Vacation Home for as Little as $87,000: Fractionals Are Coming Back and No Longer a Dirty Word
Wade Shealy, founder and creator of 3rdhome.com and one of the most knowledgeable people I’ve met on the second home market, tells me fractionals are going to come back strong. Fractional vacation home ownership makes sense; you own a deeded right to your property for a “fraction” of a year, which is why most people…
Another beautiful home that just makes me DROOL hit MLS at 10 a.m. this morning, and I cannot wait ’til Friday to show it to you. I’m like a kid who gets a toy and has to unwrap it in the car: I can’t wait ’till I get home with this one. 7014 Duffield is…
After the news reports of the damage in Lakewood last night, I just had to see it for myself. Lakewood-area streets are littered with tree limbs and leaves and lined with cleanup crews and repairmen. The teams that weren’t already at work were circling the streets like hawks, but from the looks of the area, there will be plenty of work to go around.
