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Celebrity Real Estate: NBA’s Lin gets off the couch

02.19.2012 · Posted in Real Estate Investing

By Zillow staff Start the moving trucks. This week the NBA Knick's sensation Jeremy Lin moves up, Matthew McConaughey moves to Austin, and Jennifer Hudson moves on. Jeremy Lin gets Trumped-up living upgrade From NBA castoff sleeping on his brother's lower Manhattan couch to budding superstar, Jeremy Lin isn't just moving on up, he's ...

Housing starts rise modestly to start new year

02.16.2012 · Posted in Real Estate Investing

WASHINGTON  — Construction of single-family homes cooled off slightly in January after surging in the final month last year. But a rebound in volatile apartment construction kept builders working. The Commerce Department says builders broke ground on a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 699,000 homes in January. ...

Homebuilder optimism up for 5th straight month

02.15.2012 · Posted in Real Estate Investing

Homebuilders are feeling more upbeat, but there's still a long way to go before the industry can pop the corks on the bubbly. For the fifth consecutive month, homebuilders are feeling upbeat about prospects for the market in single-family homes, offering another positive signal for the depressed housing industry ...

Listing of the week: Towers and turrets in Maine

02.15.2012 · Posted in Real Estate Investing

By Erika Riggs , Zillow Zillow Norumbega Castle in Camden, Maine Norumbega Castle, Camden, Maine For sale: $1,790,000 As explorers crisscrossed the oceans in search of The New World, facts of their journeys sometimes mixed with fiction. Some searched for the lost city of Atlantis. Spain's Juan Ponce de Leon went after the Fountain ...

Mortgage relief: Houses turned into billboards

02.13.2012 · Posted in Real Estate Investing

BUENA PARK, California  — When they saw the house on El Dorado Drive in this Los Angeles suburb being painted a startling orange and green and giant billboards hung on the outside, Scott and Beth Hostetler's neighbors were initially angry and confused. Some even considered calling the police. But what they witnessed on Friday ...