Real Estate Agent's Café

Welcome to the Real Estate Agent's Café

This web log is a collection of real estate related subject matter that I have found interesting and amusing on the Web, along with some of my thoughts and more bizarre experiences that I've encountered working for over thirty years as a commercial real estate broker.

If you happen across something that you would like share on the Real Estate Agent's Café, please send it over to stories@realestateagentscafe.com.

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Housing market: Is 2012 the year for a turnaround?

Atlantis Resort Facing Possible Foreclosure

Your best real estate move in 2012

Condos for sale in former nuclear missile silo.

(CBS News) 

CENTRAL KANSAS - The middle of Kansas is the middle of nowhere - and yet at the end of a long dirt road here, a Denver based developer named Larry Hall has chosen to build a $2 million per-unit condominium complex.

 

A View of NYC's Central Park for $100 Million

The story of New York City's newest residential skyscraper, where penthouse apartments will go for nearly $100 million apiece.

Trying to Cash In on High End Homes

Housing remains mired in a slump in most of the country, with nearly one in four homeowners under water. But a handful of bold investors are attempting to make millions on flips of high-end houses.

 

Selling Homes Near Dead People

Today's housing market is scary enough. Who needs a home that might actually spook someone?

 

Foreclosure Robo-Signing Victims Getting Help

Here's the details of a new program that provides compensation for some homeowners who faced foreclosure in 2008 and 2009 and were victims of robo-sigining.

 

Patrick Blanc: Making Gardens Grow Vertically

French botanist Patrick Blanc has turned traditional gardening on its side -- literally. He is the inventor of the vertical garden, also known as the living wall.

 

Housing's New Headache

An ironic new headache facing the housing industry: low inventory.

 

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