The Maine real estate market tried to jump-start sales last week, by staging a week-long "Clearance Event." Inspiration or desperation? "We got over a foot of snow today, it doesn't feel like spring around here," according to Mike LePage, President of the Maine Association of Realtors. "We hoped this would jump start the ... Continue Reading »

When it comes to researching home value, there's no shortage of information. The Web brims with home value tools. And people use them. In a typical month during house-hunting season, real-estate websites -- including this one -- get more than 50 million unique visitors. So-called "automated value tools" can tell you a ... Continue Reading »

Many people put their property on the market for sale or for lease in an effort to maximize their chance of having money come in. Actress Jane Seymour and her husband, actor/producer James Keach, have put their Sherman Oaks property on the market for $2,195,000 or for lease at $5,900, adding their names to those who are ... Continue Reading »

New York and New Jersey are the states with the highest-taxed counties, but upstate New York has it the worst. Counties in upstate New York put a proportionally higher tax burden on homeowners, despite lower home values there, so their tax rates are effectively higher, reports the nonpartisan tax research group The Tax ... Continue Reading »

What kind of a billionaire tech genius rents? Apparently the Mark Zuckerberg kind. So when recent news hit that Facebook founder and "The Social Network" subject Zuckerberg rents a month-to-month apartment in Palo Alto, Calif. many observers were puzzled. After all, Bill Gates paid over $1 million just in 2009 property ... Continue Reading »