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TwitterOne of the most important elements of buying a home is imagining yourself and your stuff in it. The best way for sellers to help their prospective buyers have a good first impression and easily visualize themselves living there is setting up the home is staging. Home staging is the practice of setting up your home so it is aesthetically pleasing to buyers. Looking at an article in the Realty Times,...
Thursday, June 30, 2011
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Thanks to a covert communique from Our Fairy Godmother in Beverly Hills Your Mama has learned that the deal is done done done for Ohana, the Beverly Hills, CA mansion sit-com star and rom-com queen Jennifer Aniston heaved on the market in March 2011 with a hefty asking price of $42,000,000. That's right, kids, Miz Aniston sold her luxury real estate puppy in just over three months time.According to a document provided by Our Fairy Godmother in Beverly Hills, the transfer was recorded on the 24th...
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WHO: Glenn BeckLOCATION: Westlake, TXPRICE: around $20,000 per monthSIZE: 7,904 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 7.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: We hesitate to write about this bit of celebrity real estate bizness because we always get the most vile hate mail when we discuss right wing political pundit and crybaby conspiracy theorist Glen Beck. However, we're going to take our chances and let the chips fall...
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The summer housing market is heating up. According to data from the National Association of REALTORS®, the Pending Home Sales Index smashed analyst expectations, jumping 8 percent on a monthly basis in May. Wall Street calls were for an increase of just 0.5 percent. It was a surprise result that, coupled with the recent stronger-than-expected New Home Sales and Existing Home Sales readings,...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
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BUYER: Katy Perry and Russell BrandLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $6,500,000SIZE: 8,835 square feet, 7 bedrooms, 9 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne are not the only titans in the music and entertainment industry making real estate headlines this week, so are increasingly powerful showbiz young guns Katy Perry and her bawdy British comedian hubby Russell Brand.It was only in December...
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SELLERS: Ozzy and Sharon OsbourneLOCATION: Hidden HillsSIZE: 10,930 square feet, 6 bedrooms, 6 full and 4 half bathroomsPRICE: $12,999,000YOUR MAMAS NOTES: Doddering but charming rock legend Ozzy Osbourne and his busy-busy ambitious wife/manager Sharon sold their religious icon-laden mansion in Beverly Hills, CA in August 2007 for $11,500,000 to dirty songbird Christina Aguilera. Since then, Miz...
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Maybe homes in Seattle are holding value better than we thought. Between March and April of this year, home values rose 0.8 percent nationally, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency's Home Price Index. It's the index's first month-to-month improvement since May of last year. Values are down 19 percent since peaking 4 years ago. Private-sector data affirms the government's report. ...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
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SELLER: Barbara DavisLOCATION: Los Angeles, CAPRICE: $1,885,000SIZE: 2 bedrooms, 2.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: Last week a little birdie whispered to Your Mama that Los Angeles doyenne Barbara Davis–octogenarian widow of oil and entertainment tycoon Marvin Davis–wants to move house. Sho enuf, puppies, her condo crib in a Wilshire Corridor high-rise near Century City in Los Angeles was just listed...
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A report issued Monday by the U.S. government showed core inflation rising 2.5 percent in the last 12 months for its biggest one-year gain since January 2010. Everyday living is becoming expensive, it seems. But there are some U.S. towns in which the cost of living remains affordable -- and downright cheap -- as compared to the national average. They're detailed in a BusinessWeek piece titled "The...
Monday, June 27, 2011
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Buying a new home can be very exciting, it is important that still being a savvy buyer while getting what you want in your new home. One of the most overlooked factors in a new home purchase is buyer representation. Although many builders are great and have great new homes sales consultants, as a buyer you need to have your own personal advocate and representative! Before viewing new construction...
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SELLER: Estate of Victor ShaffermanLOCATION: New York City, NYPRICE: $49,000,000SIZE: 17,150 square feet, 15 bedrooms, 7.5 bathroomsYOUR MAMAS NOTES: We are, perhaps, more than fashionably late to this particular real estate party so we ask that all you New York Times and New York Social Diary readers bear with Your Mama while we exercise our own thoughts about an immaculate and opulent New York City...
Friday, June 24, 2011
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While the Joneses and Johnsons pray to whatever god they pray to that they'll keep their jobs in this still sour economy so they can pay the mortgage and buy four dollar a gallon gas, the super-rich just keep on keepin' on with their mind-altering and insanely expensive real estate transactions.Last summer Mexican telecommunications bazillionaire Carlos Slim paid cab driver turned real estate...
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