Although the end of 2005 is several weeks away, it’s not too early to plan for year-end tax savings. Real estate can play a major role in saving your tax dollars.
October 2005
Monthly Archive
19 Oct 2005 03:30 pm
How real estate can save you money in taxes
19 Oct 2005 07:52 am
A partnership “made in the heavens”?
Commercial real estate’s largest data provider is working with Google to integrate its vast stores of building information with the Google Earth interactive satellite mapping service.
19 Oct 2005 06:35 am
Investors continue to snap up industrial property
“Quality construction, increased market demand, improving market conditions, a positive business environment and increasing job growth continue to drive investment capital to real estate in North Carolina,” said Ben Kilgore, a CB Richard Ellis broker who represented seller Duke Realty.
18 Oct 2005 08:29 am
More and more, we hear of this
Once her home was on the MLS, “It went from showing once or twice a week to showing two or three times a day every day,” said the massage therapist who now lives in Tega Cay, S.C.
The nation’s more than 800 MLS sites have long been the most effective tools for selling homes and the primary means for real estate agents to protect their commissions, which last year totaled upward of $60 billion. The MLS sites are private and controlled by the real estate industry. The only way on them is through an agent.
16 Oct 2005 07:43 pm
FavoriteAgent.com Achieves #1 Status after Sixteen Months
In less than a year and a half, Fayetteville (NC) real estate company FavoriteAgent.com has risen from 386th to first in its market. Julie Quintanilla, Broker-in-Charge, reports that FavoriteAgent now has 53 agents and is on track to reach its goal of 75 by December 31, 2005.
16 Oct 2005 07:38 pm
Once an attractive career for women who needed flexible, part-time hours while they raised their families, the field is now a magnet for business-minded professionals lured by the prospects of lucrative commissions in a market that is seeing record high prices. Even as single-family home sales show signs of slowing, former corporate executives with an entrepreneurial spirit are entering the field with confidence that hard work and careful planning will bring financial rewards.
14 Oct 2005 07:16 am
Martha Stewart Wants To Build You a House
In an agreement with builder KB Homes, the first group of Martha branded homes will go on sale in Cary, North Carolina and will be known as the “KB Home Twin Lakes: Homes Created with Martha Stewart.” Additional Martha domiciles will be coming to Houston and Atlanta. The North Carolina houses will be inspired by Martha’s manses in New York and Maine.
12 Oct 2005 08:07 pm
Brian Davis, from the NBA to Blue Devil Ventures
Brian Davis has graced the pages of sports magazines galore. As a former Duke University legend, this forward is no stranger to sold-out crowds, screaming fans, and multitudes of flashbulbs. Davis distinguished himself in the basketball record books as the only African American in NCAA history to play in four consecutive Final Four tournaments, as well as play professionally in France and then the NBA.
12 Oct 2005 08:05 am
Legal Description
The description of a piece of property, identifying its specific location in terms established by the municipality or other jurisdiction in which the property resides. Often related in specific distances from a known landmark or intersection.
11 Oct 2005 06:49 am
Which lender sites are worth visiting?
From Mortgage 101
I recently scored 21 sites for the depth and comprehensiveness of the information provided to shoppers. Of these, I considered 17 worth listing because they had some price functionality and showed all settlement costs. The Best: The highest-ranked site was www.E-LOAN.com, followed closely by www.mortgage.com and www.indymac.com.