Having 7,108 islands, the Philippines is filled with natural resources varied from North to South. Many Filipinos went out of the country to seek greener pastures financially but more often than not those greener pastures entail too much stress to have to work more hours in a day with less rest.
True Filipinos love to be home, close to family. They may have made their own family elsewhere but deep in her (it’s usually the woman being able to find foreign husbands) heart, she wants to be home.
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You may be one who plans and wants to buy a house through a housing loan and you are presented with the option of paying it off within a short period of time or a long period of time.
What will you choose?
That actually depends on your needs and financial capacity.
Go short term if:
- you have enough to feed your family and do your everyday necessities after you have paid off your amortization for the month.
Advantages: lower interest, ownership immediate.
Disadvantage: initial cash outlay is abruptly bigger.
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Large national brokerage companies have taken anywhere from a decade to a century to build a national brand. On average, many of the current real estate leaders appear to have invested approximately three decades in creating and building national recognition.
Therefore last week’s announcement by Realogy of its licensing the Better Homes and Gardens (BH&G) brand for 50 years from Meredith Corporation, a publishing company that owns about 25 subscription magazines including Better Homes and Gardens, comes as a big surprise to the industry.
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BEVERLY HILLS, CA-Kennedy Wilson’s Multifamily Management Group has sold four properties throughout California totaling 992 units in 30 days for an aggregate of $147 million. The sales follow the company’s repositioning of the assets under Kennedy Wilson’s ownership, according to Bob Hart, president and CEO of KW Multifamily, which is a subsidiary of Kennedy Wilson.
Hart says that the locally based company will reinvest the proceeds of the sales into other multifamily properties that meet the firm’s criteria of under-performing assets in urban markets. He adds that Kennedy Wilson sees continued opportunities in the multifamily arena in light of the changes occurring in the housing and capital markets.
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Brad Inman invited Jamie Glenn of Trulia.com to present the top 50 online ways to market real estate. We shot some video of the presentation and have it posted here along with a list of the web services mentioned in the video. We’ll critique our section (Multimedia) later. Not surprisingly, we have a lot to say about the subject.
Listing Sites
Craigslist – Great way to get local information
Google Base – Post it on Base. Find it on Google
Homegain – Expose your listing and profile to buyers and seller
Trulia – Get in front of serious home buyers
Zillow – Post your property for free (more…)
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