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Sandalwood Homes For Sale

Houston Properties

However, newer properties such as modern townhomes and Victorian mansions sit well with Sandalwood’s peaceful atmosphere. Despite its distance from inner Houston, all the amenities and modern comforts of city living are present in Sandalwood. – 2014: America’s Best Real Estate Agents, RealTrends.com.

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What are Millennial Homebuyers Looking For?

Raleigh Realty

These statistics are on a rapid incline, as the average amount of time spent interacting with media in 2014 was slightly over nine hours per day. Although they want some modern upgrades, high-end appliances, and recessed lighting, they are also very interested in pre-war details, mid-century contemporary, and Mediterranean style.

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Guide to EaDo / East Downtown Townhomes

Houston Properties

Most townhomes are within gated communities and feature modern architecture and designer finishes. Most townhomes are within gated communities and feature modern architecture, designer finishes, and eco-friendly features. – 2014: America’s Best Real Estate Agents, RealTrends.com.

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Can 3-D printed homes help solve the housing crisis?

Housing Wire

To Ballard, 3D printing technology is evolving to solve a crisis in modern day America and the world: The failure to meet people’s demand for housing. A former Texas A&M cross country and track athlete and Episcopalian minister, Ballard in 2011 co-founded TreeHouse , a retailer to sell environmentally friendly home construction materials.

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Opinion: Can tech and iBuyers fix the real estate market?

Housing Wire

For instance, Opendoor was founded in 2014 to make buying a home more efficient – or as they say “reinvent life’s most important transaction.” In the last decade, we’ve seen several digital companies and startups use algorithms and technologies to fix specific pain points in the home-buying process.

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Why housing inventory is so low right now

Housing Wire

Yes, but this is where my work is much different from other housing economists and why we need to think of inventory in a new, modern 21st-century mindset. We had a few years where sales missed expectations in 2013, 2014, and 2015. Wait, what? But we have a housing shortage, right?

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Originators gear up for the purchase market

Housing Wire

Yearly data compiled by the MBA found that in 2014 and 2018, years with weaker origination volume, the LO turnover rate was 44% and 37%, respective-ly. Chopra has also beefed up the agency’s enforcement division and partnered with two other regulators to target lenders engaging in what was termed by the government as “modern-day redlining.”

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