Johannesburg Real Estate News

Monday | via Tehachapi News 

As the year 2009 unwound, the Greater Tehachapi real estate market perked up. Bernie Connolly, co-owner and associate broker of Coldwell Banker Best in Tehachapi, said a third-quarter comparison in sales shows a big jump.

Related Topix: Tehachapi, CA, Real Estate, Foreclosures, Home Listing, Home

Tuesday Dec 1 | via Bakersfield.com 

A day after the federal government announced a new campaign to ramp up assistance to mortgage borrowers at risk of losing their homes, some in Bakersfield remained worried.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Nov 18, 2009 | via Bakersfield.com 

Good news at 910 Grace St.: A house has become a home. The Bakersfield AIDS Project and its supporters closed escrow on Ricky's Retreat, its hospice house and headquarters in east Bakersfield.

Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Bakersfield, CA, Foreclosures, Kern County, CA

Nov 18, 2009 | via Atwater Signal 

Housing prices are so low that some investors are changing their strategies, going from "fix up and flip" to "touch up and hold." Investors are finding that they can buy and rent the properties for less than the cost of building new.

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Housing, Fresno, CA, Fresno County, CA, Kern County, CA

Nov 13, 2009 | via Bakersfield.com 

333-5247, www.moneystarthere.com . * New York Life insurance agent John Border does free presentations for community groups, by appointment.

Related Topix: Kern County, CA, Home, Mortgage

1 hr ago | via ABC7.com 

California will begin the new year with a number of new laws cracking down on mortgage lenders, paparazzi, and DUI offenders.

Related Topix: California, California Government, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Home, Mortgage

1 hr ago | via The Modesto Bee 

Hammered by a housing downturn that contributed to the state's budget crisis, California is boosting protections for home buyers and punishing brokers who mislead borrowers and steer them into costly loans.

Related Topix: California, California Government, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Milk

7 hrs ago | via Juneau Empire 

Can you imagine getting a job at which your boss tells you that you'll get your paycheck every two weeks whether or not you show up? And performance doesn't matter.

Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

20 hrs ago | via Fort Worth Star-Telegram 

Dallas-Fort Worth home prices fell slightly in October from September and have remained basically flat for the past year, the latest national home price survey finds.

Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, California

Nov 24, 2009 | via Examiner.com 

As it stands now, those Californians who lost their primary residences in 2009, and in future years, will have to go deeper into debt to pay up to 10% of the Cancellation of Debt amount to the tyrannical Franchise Tax Board.

Related Topix: California, Tax, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, California Government

5 min ago | via People's Daily 

Gray-slate-clad villas surrounded by an imposing stone wall and an ostentatious main gate flanked by thick Roman columns are making history by setting record sale prices despite repeated government warnings of overheating in the property market.

Related Topix: Housing

5 hrs ago | via Construction News 

The home buying business has changed dramatically over the past decade, according to data from the National Association of Realtors .

Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Real Estate

11 min ago | via All Things Digital 

If LinkedIn Corp. wants to avoid being swamped by social-networking giant Facebook Inc., it will have to convince users like Jackie Nejaime to log in more often they do now.

Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Real Estate

17 min ago | via Miami.com 

When Goldman Sachs joined some of its Wall Street rivals in late 2005 in secretly packaging a new breed of offshore securities, it gave prospective investors little hint that the deals were so risky that they could end up losing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Related Topix: Financial Services, Goldman Sachs Group, Investment Banking, Investment Services, Mortgage, Home

18 min ago | via Greenville Online 

Financial Peace University , the 13-week program taught by Dave Ramsey, has helped more than one million families positively change their financial future.

Related Topix: Greenville, SC, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage