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The Week In Review: Crazy houses, Sink Holes, A Lack of First Time Home Buyers, And Decreasing foreclosures

Posted on Saturday, August 17, 2013

The Lady Chadwick at Useppa

 

 

Crazy houses, Sink Holes, A Lack of First Time Home Buyers, And Decreasing foreclosures – another interesting week in real estate. This week we shared with our 3,000+ Twitter followers a variety of Naples, Florida and National real estate updates. Here are some of our favorite headlines and links from the week to keep you informed:

Bloomberg: Commenting on the lack of first time homebuyers …
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-09/repeat-buyers-drive-u-s-home-sales-needing-to-broaden-economy.html

Naples News Shows Area Foreclosure Filings Are Dropping
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2013/aug/11/collier-lee-decline-forcelosure-filings-july-fla/

CNN Money: You have to see this … a Naples Home made national news with its “Cadillac Bar”
http://money.cnn.com/video/pf/2013/08/08/pf-uh-pink-cadillac-bar.cnnmoney/index.html?iid=HP_River
Naples News Tells Of Sinkhole Swallowing Part Of A Florida Resort
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2013/aug/12/sinkhole-causes-florida-resort-villa-partially-col/

CNN Money: Surprising Foreclosure Hotspots – some well intentioned government programs aimed at softening the mortgage crisis may produce undesired effects.
http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/15/real_estate/foreclosure-states/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

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