Monthly Archives: June 2012

Video Tutorial: Claim Your Business Listing And Make Patch Work …

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Do you want to enhance your presence online and reach new customers for your local business in the North Druid Hills-Briarcliff area? Well, North Druid Hills-Briarcliff Patch is here to help — and we can offer you a few perks for connecting with your community online. Every local business has a space on Patch. We've already done the legwork to create it for you. If you haven't seen it, we'd be happy to show it to you. If you claim it, you have more control over how your business is presented online. Your Read more [...]

Benicia Garage Sales and Yard Sales: June 16-17, 2012

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Every weekend Benicians get up early to check out the local garage sales. This list of yard sales was taken from Craig's List and includes all the garage sales listed at 2:00 p.m. Friday, June 15, 2012. Don't forget to check the Benicia Patch _free classified ads for garage sales_. When:  Saturday, June 16th 8am - 2pmWhere: 8 Corte del Sol, BeniciaWhat’s for sale:  Misc. household items, TV, quality women's clothing accessories (shoes handbags) and upscale inventory from closed boutique.*VERA Read more [...]

Katrina levee breach won’t get historic listing

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NEW ORLEANS –  Two sites where levees breached during Hurricane Katrina and led to catastrophic flooding in New Orleans will not be listed on the National Register of Historic Places alongside notable landmarks such as Civil War battlefields and presidential birthplaces, the National Park Service said. The park service rejected a proposal from the advocacy group Levees.Org, which has been pushing for almost two years to have the sites listed on the register, arguing the breaches Read more [...]

House Hunt: Six Acres of Land Listed at $3.3M

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Real estate: The source of endless fascination at cocktail parties. A reason for otherwise normal neighbors to turn into peeping voyeurs as they check out the closets of their neighbor during an Open House. The cause for great angst, if a house is out of reach for a would-be buyer, or if it’s priced far below what a new owner just paid for a nearly identical house. To help keep you apprised of the local real estate market scene, Patch’s weekly House Hunt will highlight five houses that have Read more [...]

Expanded event poised for a breakout year

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The Okanagan Summer Wine Festival is pulling out the stops for it's 11th year.For nine years of its existence, the event was centralized at Silver Star mountain resort near Vernon. Last year, organizers took baby steps to expand and brought it down from the mount.The year 2012 promises to be a breakout one in terms of attendees. Signature events will take place in Kelowna, Penticton and Osoyoos and the festival has also partnered with the GranFondo Kelowna, where some 3,000 cyclists are ready to Read more [...]

Canadian home sales activity moderates in May

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OTTAWA, June 15, 2012 /CNW/ - According to statistics released today by The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA), national resale housing activity softened in May 2012 compared to April.Highlights:Home sales down 3.1% from April to May.Actual (not seasonally adjusted) up 9% from levels in May 2011.The year-over-year increase continues to reflect the slowdown in sales a year ago following changes to mortgage rules that came into effect in March 2011.The number Read more [...]

Is your listing a pinball?

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In the real estate brokerage field they’re known as “setups” or “pinball” homes, and this spring’s improving conditions in some markets could be stimulating more of them.A setup or pinball property is a house listed with an unrealistically high asking price that pulls in lots of visits by agents and shoppers, but no offers. The problem is this: Real estate agents, including even the listing agent, are using the overpriced house as a negative Read more [...]

B.C. Realtors increasingly embracing social media and the web to …

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When Ashley Smith, a 27-year-old realtor in Vancouver, gets a new listing she tweets out the details to her followers and posts the property’s profile on her Facebook page.And shortly, once her new website is up and running, Smith, who previously worked in the Langley/Surrey property market, will also run a blog to promote her listings and broadcast her thoughts on trends and housing opportunities in the Greater Vancouver area.A few years ago, a For Sale sign on the property and some New Listing Read more [...]

RSM Tenon shifts listing to speed up deal-making

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THE SHARE LISTING of RSM Tenon has been moved from ‘premium' to ‘standard', a move which should give more leeway to the firm to undertake transactions. In a statement to the stock exchange, the firm said the move would free it from regulations that would require shareholder approval for transactions. "These restrictions, which would not be applicable to a company that has a standard listing rather than a premium listing, have prevented the company from carrying Read more [...]

Is your listing a pinball?

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WASHINGTON — In the real-estate brokerage field, they're known as "setups" or "pinball" homes, and this spring's improving conditions in some markets could be stimulating more of them. A setup or pinball property is a house listed with an unrealistically high asking price that pulls in lots of visits by agents and shoppers, but no offers. The problem is this: Real-estate agents, including even the listing agent, are using the overpriced house as a negative example to sell similar homes Read more [...]