Royal Real Estate News

Sep 10, 2009 | via ArkansasMatters Central Arkansas' Homepage 

The latest figures for home sales in Arkansas are very encouraging for three of the state's top five counties.

Related Topix: Housing, Arkansas, Pulaski County, AR, Saline County, AR, Garland County, AR, 9

Tuesday | via Miami Herald 

Here's a switch for a state accustomed to falling revenues: Florida will have more money to spend next year than expected.

Related Topix: Arkansas, Arkansas Government, Florida, Florida Government, Housing, West Virginia, West Virginia Government, US Governors, Joe Manchin

Tuesday Jan 5 | via ArkansasBusiness.com 

Northwest Arkansas developer Gary Combs is suing Signature Bank of Arkansas and its CEO, Gary Head, claiming fraudulent inducement, deceptive trade practices and breach of fiduciary duty.

Related Topix: Arkansas, Foreclosures

Sunday Jan 3 | via Daily Record 

Special to the Daily Record ecnobles@att.net According to the National Association of Realtors , some of the most important steps a homeowner can take when putting his home on the market are cleaning and decluttering.

Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Real Estate, Arkansas

Monday Dec 28 | via Daily Record 

While housing markets remained volatile through 2009, a first-time home buyer tax credit, low mortgage rates and downward pressure on list prices combined to help convince some buyers that the time had come to purchase a home.

Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Arkansas, University of Arkansas, Foreclosures

Friday Dec 18 | via Federal Emergency Management Agency 

Multiple federal agencies and departments are here to help Arkansas recover from damages incurred during the severe storms and flooding last October.

Related Topix: Arkansas, Weather, FEMA, US News, United States Department of Agriculture, Agriculture, Science, Foreclosures

7 min ago | via The Corner 

Amity Shlaes has a good piece today in Bloomberg where she rightfully notes that, strangely, lawmakers and economists live in fear of deflation while treating inflation as a lesser and more remote threat: The shared belief is that the potential for deflation or credit-and- deflation-related spirals deserve our near-exclusive attention.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

1 hr ago | via ABA Journal 

Several years ago, it would have been virtually unheard of. But a number of lenders are now sometimes willing to consider reducing or deferring part of a borrower's principal balance on an upside-down mortgage in order to avoid taking an even more costly hit if the loan goes into foreclosure and has to be sold at a significant loss, according to ...

Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

2 hrs ago | via MarketWatch 

In just a year, hedge funds have gone from worst to first. After suffering its worst year on record in 2008, the industry generated the biggest gains in a decade in 2009 as credit and equity markets rebounded strongly, according to early estimates released Thursday by Hennessee Group.

Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance

8 min ago | via Star-telegram.com 

BY JONATHAN VATNER One night in August, Debra Dawson and her boyfriend, Joe Sinagoga, were vacationing on Jonathan Island, a nearly 3-acre plot off the coast of Narragansett, R.I. Their motorboat had broken down and they had no way of getting to the mainland for dinner.

Related Topix: Narragansett, RI, Home Gardening, Home, Mortgage

11 min ago | via Cincinnati Business Courier 

Blue Ash entrepreneur Austin Allison will gain some national exposure Thursday when he appears on the Fox Business Network's "Happy Hour" program at about 5:40 p.m. Allison is the founder of Dotloop Co., a software firm that allows real estate agents to process contract documents electronically - saving money, time and paper.

Related Topix: Blue Ash, OH, Real Estate