Articles for February 29th, 2008
Shariff-Munir Lands Plumb Building Project
They are building a new home for Darryl and Diane Johnston on Woodfin.
Perfect House Porn For a Stock-Slumping Day
Check it out and dream about the good ole days when the Dow topped 14,000…
Could Bad Press Be Hurting Our Market?
Many Real Estate experts think yes. Real Estate is a local story — and all these gyrations both local and national get people anxious and backing off from buying. I mean, look at stock market news — who among us doesn’t feel a little anxious report after report about everything sliding downward? Then you eye those $940 pants at Barneys like I did last night and think, um, maybe not a good time to purchase. But a journalists’ job is to report the news, the facts, quickly and succinctly. Accurate is always nice. The facts are there are a lot of local foreclosures, California Real Estate is in a mud slide and Florida is way overbuilt. How to balance? Maybe by doing exactly what a group of high-profile real estate developers, home-builders and other LOCAL Real Estate super stars did this week.
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