Real Estate Industry News » Rental Property http://www.realestateindustrynews.com Real Estate Industry News and Information for Real Estate Professionals Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:49:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Hawaii homeowners have highest mortgage amounts in U.S. http://www.realestateindustrynews.com/financing/hawaii-homeowners-have-highest-mortgage-amounts-in-u-s/ http://www.realestateindustrynews.com/financing/hawaii-homeowners-have-highest-mortgage-amounts-in-u-s/#comments Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:08:52 +0000 Dennis Norman http://www.realestateindustrynews.com/?p=3330 Ah the beauty and splendor of Hawaii! Living in paradise comes at a price though as Hawaii, by far, leads the nation in average loan amount on a home, coming at $677,299 according to a report just released by LendingTree.com. Coming in a rather distant second is Washington D.C. at $393,453, followed by

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The last couple of months I have said that, “unless something changes dramatically, 2011 will hit a new record low of new home starts. Well, unfortunately, even though the report for October shows an increase of 3.9 percent in housing starts, the seasonally adjusted annual rate is still at just 430,000 homes and

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Report highlights include:

Over the year ending mid-2011, the Census Bureau reported a net increase

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As far as I’m concerned, the Internet is one of the greatest inventions of all time, and ranks right up there with flush toilets, sliced bread and basketball! For real estate investors, the Internet is the single best property due diligence research tool available. Especially for investors who are located in counties where property tax

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The U.S. apartment sector again posted robust revenue growth in the third quarter of 2011, according to MPF Research, an industry-leading market intelligence division of RealPage, Inc. (NASDAQ:RP).  National occupancy climbed 0.6 percentage points

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The lawsuit alleges that Michael Nieman, the former on-site manager of Park Towers, sexually harassed female tenants in

violation of the Fair Housing

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