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Home Purchasing Power Jumps To New Highs
With mortgage rates down to all-time lows, you can buy a lot more home for your money. Home affordability is at an all-time high. According to last week’s Freddie Mac mortgage rate survey, the average...
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Case-Shiller Index Shows Huge Home Price Gain
Home prices continue to rise nationwide. According to the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Index, home prices rose 6.9% between the first and second quarter of 2012, the largest quarter-to-quarter...
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Drought Proof Your Lawn and Landscaping
The summer drought in Nebraska has taken its toll on our grass and lawns! Even with the recent rain and cooler temperatures you should still consider these steps to help your lawn recover from the...
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Case-Shiller index Shows Home Values Rising Nationwide, Too
There have been no shortage of “housing market” stories lately. After sinking through much of late-last decade, home values slowly stabilized into mid-2011. By October 2011, values appeared to have...
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19 of 20 Case-Shiller Index Markets Improve In August
Home value rose to close out the summer, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Index, a national home-valuation tracker. Nationwide, values rose 0.9% between July and August 2012 with 19 of 20 tracked...
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Questions First-Time Home Buyers Should Ask
Nationwide, mortgage rates are low in Nebraska and home prices remain relatively low, too. This combination, plus rising rents, is pushing renters in some cities — including Elkhorn — toward...
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Case-Shiller Index Verifies Home Value Gains Through Q3 2012
The housing market continues to expand. According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Index, which was released earlier this week, U.S. home prices rose in September for the sixth straight month, climbing...
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Omaha Announced As One of the Coolest Midwest Cities
Today’s World Herald beat me to it. Omaha was announced as one of “The Coolest cities in the Midwest” by MSN. The news service calls Omaha “the land of steak and corn” and extols its “great dining...
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Case-Shiller Index Shows Near 6% Home Price Gain
Home prices continue their upward climb. Last week, the S&P/Case-Shiller Index showed home prices gaining 5.5 percent during the 12-month period ending November 2012, marking the largest one-year...
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ACCURATE APPRAISALS THE FIRST TIME
I was sitting in a staff meeting this week when Realtors began discussing their dismay over low appraisals. More often than not a low appraisal will kill a deal. Several Realtors related stories about...
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Case-Shiller Home Price Growth Ticks Upward in November Reading
Home prices increased in November, with national home prices up 0.70 percent month-to-month and 6.20 percent higher year-over year. Case-Shiller’s 20-City Home Price Index rose by 0.70 percent in the...
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