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Search giant Google will no longer support real estate listings uploaded to its classifed listings site on Google Maps, the company announced today.
Consumers will no longer be able to find for-sale, foreclosure, or rental properties through the search function on Google Maps, and real estate professionals will no longer be able to upload their listings to Google Base, the company’s classifieds site, which is being replaced by Google Shopping APIs and will not support real estate listings.
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I’d like to share a very interesting announcement with you.
Keller Williams Premier has been named by the Houston Association of Realtors as the #1 Katy real estate office for closed units sold in 2010.
Keller Williams Premier has also been recognized as #1 in Katy for closed dollar volume in 2010.
Keller Williams Premier is located in Cinco Ranch in the Villagio Shopping Center at the intersection of Peek and Westheimer Parkway. The address is 22762 Westheimer Parkway, Suite 430.
If you are considering a career in real estate, Keller Williams Premier is where you want to be! We are known for exemplary education and we even have profit sharing! For more details and an introduction to our Team Leaders, contact me at 713-818-2404.
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Firethorne continued its record-breaking ways in 2010, selling 254 new homes, an all-time high for the five-year-old Katy/Fulshear residential development. This represents a 6.7 percent increase in new home sales over 2009, when the 1,400-acre master-designed community marked its previous record-breaking 238 homes sold.
“The continued growth of the Katy/Fulshear/West Houston economy, the Federal tax credits for first-time homebuyers (offered earlier in the year), our outstanding public schools and ongoing support from the local Realtor ® community have fueled the success we achieved in 2010,” said Firethorne General Manager Wayne Meyer.
Project-to-date, Firethorne has sold 1,132 new homes. The Firethorne homebuilders are Coventry Homes, Highland Homes, Partners in Building, Perry Homes, Plantation Homes and David Weekley Homes.
In terms of growth, energy companies have relocated employees to the area, Read the rest of this entry »
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Saturday, January 15th
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Katy Christian Ministries Resale Shop, 333 Mason Rd South
Types of electronics that may be recycled:
- Laptop/Desktop Computers
- CPU Hard Drives
- Flat Screen TV’s/ Monitors
- Printers/Print Cartridges
- Telephone Equipment
- Cell Phones
- Stereo Equipment
- Fax Machines
- Scanners
- Power Supplies
- Video Equipment (VCR’s, CD & DVD players)
- Cables
- Computer Mother Boards/Circuit Boards
- Modems
- Servers
- Semi-Conductors
- Gaming Consoles
- MP3 Players
- TV’s ($15 disposal fee/no TV’s larger than 36″)
Secure on-site shredding will also be available for all your sensitive documents.
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For the fifth month in a row following expiration of the 2010 homebuyer tax credit, sales of single-family homes across Greater Houston declined in November while the prices of those homes rose. Despite the lingering sales chill, the market enjoyed boosts in both the average and median price, achieving the highest levels ever seen in a November.
According to the latest monthly data compiled by the Houston Association of REALTORS® (HAR), November sales of single-family homes throughout the Houston market fell 22.0 percent when compared to November 2009. However, on a year-to-date basis, 2010 single-family home sales are off just 5.6 percent from 2009 levels. Positive sales activity was recorded in the low and high ends of the housing market, with declines affecting homes priced between $80,000 and $500,000.
Luxury home sales helped drive the latest pricing gains. The average price of a single-family home increased 11.8 percent from November 2009 to $219,560 while the November single-family home median price—the figure at which half of the homes sold for more and half sold for less—edged up 1.7 percent from one year earlier to $152,500.
Foreclosure property sales reported in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS) Read the rest of this entry »
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I’m not allowed to identify the agents who took these hideous photos for the HAR.com website but they are sure worth a look. Enjoy!
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Ever since the “Katy Sun” did an interview with me, and it was picked up by the “Houston Business Journal”, on foreclosures and short sales, my phone has been ringing with investors wanting to buy properties. One thing I have to do, in most occasions, is explain the Freddie Mac First Look Initiative:
Freddie Mac offers homebuyers and select non-profits an exclusive opportunity to purchase HomeSteps homes prior to competition from investors through the Freddie Mac First Look Initiative program. This on-going initiative offers owner occupant homebuyers, Neighborhood Stabilization (NSP) grantees and non-profits engaged in community stabilization efforts the ability to purchase HomeSteps homes during their initial 15 days of listing without competition from investors.
The initiative supports Freddie Mac’s mission to stabilize communities and support housing recovery through the creation of affordable home-ownership opportunities.
How does the initiative work? During the first 15 days a home is listed for sale in the Multiple Listing Service (MLS), HomeSteps will consider purchase Read the rest of this entry »
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- 1526 Durfey Lane
- Lovely traditional with updates galore
- Only $161,000
- Built 1979
- 2218 sq. ft.
- 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths
- 2 car detached garage with work bench, cabinets and pegboard
- New roof 2010
- New carpet
- Freshly painted
- New tile
- Crown molding
- Upgraded light fixtures
- New fan
- Wood-burning fireplace
- Vaulted ceiling
- Floor to ceiling fireplace
- Rich paneling
- Wall of windows in family room
- Walk-in wet bar
- Updated kitchen appliances
- Breakfast room looks out over wooded backyard
- Totally updated powder room with vessel sink, oak cabinet and new commode
- Master bedroom accommodates large furniture
- Updated master bath with double sinks, his and her closets, sunken tub with new surround, updated lighting fixtures and new commode
- Bay windows
- Hollywood bath upstairs with new commode and updated fixtures
- Walk-in closets with shelves throughout
- Walk-in attic storage
- AND MUCH MORE!
- For a private showing, call me at 713-818-2404. This one won’t last as it is in a beloved subdivision. Katy schools.
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Foreclosed and foreclosing properties dominate many of today’s U.S. real estate markets–more than four years after the sharpest observers saw the market shift coming, and more than two years after the reality hit home for millions of American home owners.
While Katy is not suffering like other areas of the country, the number of foreclosures in our hometown has grown substantially. (Pictured above are two foreclosures currently on the market.)
First-time home buyers make up almost half of all buyers of bank-owned foreclosures and soon-to-be foreclosed short sale properties. They’re followed closely by investors seeking rental properties, and a third important group—homeowners who find they can move up to a bigger or better home they previously could not afford.
The truth is: These markets demand most of the same things an ordinary Read the rest of this entry »
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