Buying waterfront real estate is a dream for many Americans. The fresh smell of the ocean, the clear blue waters, soft sand underfoot, and the instant feeling of tranquility that takes over as soon as you lay down your beach blanket ...beachfront prope...

Tech savvy real estate agents understand the importance of using the Internet's global reach to their advantage. They build informative websites that are optimized for search engines, they blog regularly, and have started to create profiles on various ...

The housing bill basically represents a temporary lifeline for mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and relief for 400,000 homeowners in mortgage distress. All in all, there is about $15 billion in housing tax breaks. Here is the bill – in a...

The majority of today's home buyers are starting their search for real estate on the internet. They are able to look at the available inventory from the comfort of their home, 24 hours a day. And with so many properties on the market right now, buyers ...

Hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes are natural disasters that occur on a regular basis throughout the United States. It's imperative that homeowners who live in high risk zones be thoroughly prepared in case disaster strikes. In states su...

So you finally have your house on the market. You have probably agonized for days over the first thing that your prospective buyer will see when he walks in the door of your home. Well now you can stop agonizing because a buyer will not 'see' anything...

The last few months have been a good time for investing in rental real estate property and the coastal areas have been particularly popular. Many younger buyers have spotted this, and have thought of innovative ways to get into the real estate market....

While "green" has become quite the buzzword when it comes to home building and design, what exactly it means isn't always clear. There are a few standards for eco-friendly homes, but the term "green" doesn't have a universal definition beyond being a c...

Paradise is what most people call Destin Florida, and that's because it truly is a beautiful place. Destin is a place that epitomizes what people think of when they think of Florida—white sand and turquoise water stretching off into the horizon. If y...

One truism in real estate holds: the resale value of one of the most important rooms in a home, is that of the bathroom. A bathroom can be a deal breaker for many sales. These days, with the housing market on rocky grounds, and with home sellers reluct...

In the advent of the sub prime mortgage crisis many homeowners are opting to rent properties as opposed to trying to sell in this unstable and already saturated market. But, land lording involves some savvy, so listen up and heed some valuable advice, ...

Home staging is creating a fantasy world for prospective buyers. You want people to come into your house and be able to imagine how the house would look if it were theirs. To do this, you have to remove your personality from the house so that...

1. Nosferatu (1922) There's nothing like making the property sale of your life, only to find out that your dream client is a member of the blood-sucking undead. This movie is notable because it was an unauthorized adaptation of the book "Dracu...

On July 17, 1947, The National Association of Real Estate Boards applied to the United States Patent Office to register REALTOR as a trademark. The date claimed for first usage was March 31, 1916. It first came into common parlance with an utterance ...

Mashable.com is one of the largest and most trafficked blogs on the Internet. It keeps track of such social networking giants as Facebook, Myspace, Youtube and Bebo, plus many other social networking sites. When a new social networking site is create...