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Since graduating from Harvard summa cum laude, Alison Rogers has been a reporter, an editor, a real-estate agent, a Wall Street desk jockey, a columnist, a failed flipper, and a landlady. A member of the National Association of Realtors, she currently sells and rents luxury co-ops in Manhattan for the...- more about Alison Rogers »
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- Media Guru Peter Shankman's Work-From-Home Tips
- We’ve all dreamed of founding a million-dollar business from our spare bedrooms, but Peter Shankman has actually done it. Less than two years ago, he founded Help A Reporter Out, a way for reporters to post queries looking for sources; if a reporter needs to find a mortgage expert, or...
- Blog posts 2009-07-28
- Saint Laurent's Perfect Beach House
- In case you're in the market (*wink*), it's known as Villa Mabrouka -- House of Luck -- with five bedrooms, staff quarters, and a pool house. This is the former estate of the late designer Yves Saint Laurent, located in Tangier, Morocco, and it's now for sale, according to...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Whoops! Bank Sells House by Mistake
- If you don't think the foreclosure crisis has reached new proportions, just ask Anna Ramirez. The poor South Florida woman found that her lender Washington Mutual now part of Chase mistakenly sold her house out from under her at auction. According to an article...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- The Comparables That Homebuyers Shouldn't Forget
- Dear Ali; I was told that apartment prices have dropped 20 percent in the area where I am looking to buy. There is a unit that I like which just went on the market; since a similar unit sold for $1,000,000 last year, I should be...
- Blog posts 2009-08-25
- Housing Numbers Up, But Don't Get Too Hopeful
- Sales of new homes rose 9.6 percent in July, which is an uptick for the fourth month in a row. Nearly three-quarters of Home Depot's markets had stronger sales in the second quarter than in the first quarter. And a popular housing price index shows that housing prices ticked up...
- Blog posts 2009-08-26
- Selling Your Home in a Tight Credit Market
- Dear Ali; I was told by my agent that the government halted conventional and FHA loans on mobile homes. I own a mobile home and it was set to close at the end of August. What can the buyer do now? I have to sell the house...
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Four Things You Should Know About Your Fire Insurance Claim
- California's burning, again; the flames north of Los Angeles, also known as the Station Fire, have already killed two people, and are threatening tens of thousands of homes, causing the governor to declare a state of emergency in Los Angeles and Monterey counties. So of course it's...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- Can I Break My Lease If People Bark about My Dog?
- Dear Ali; I have a companion dog that we kept out on our apartment's patio until we got complaints saying he barks too much when people walk by. Since then, we have kept him in a kennel in our home when we leave, but now we have more...
- Blog posts 2009-09-04
- Real Estate Industry Battle Begins in Canada
- I know "Canadian lawsuit" is a phrase that usually makes my attention wander, but if you're a homebuyer, real estate agent, or in the publishing industry, there's one Canadian lawsuit out there that might affect your life. The history is a little complicated, so grab a cup of coffee while...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- Renovating to Sell
- In today's soft market, you've got to be, as my boss Gil Neary says, "the prettiest girl at the dance." That means you, as a seller, need to do all the renovations that two years ago you could have pushed off on your buyer. But which ones?...
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
- For Sale: Three Stories, Presidential Neighbors
- A new listing in Chicago is stirring interest because of its deep front porch and high security -- the house is next door to the Hyde Park/Kenwood residence of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. The website for the Greenwood Avenue house is generating traffic....
- Blog posts 2009-09-15
- Banker Fired After Using Foreclosed Malibu House for Parties
- This post was updated September 16, 2009 Why buy when you can just live off of Bernie Madoff's crumbs? That's a question to ask a Wells Fargo senior vice president, who reportedly spent weekends partying at one of the bank's foreclosed properties, a $12...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Donating Property to Charity: Dos and Don'ts
- A recent article about real-estate donations in the Chronicle of Philanthropy subscription required advises charities to be extra careful when accepting donations of property, because in this lousy market, real estate can be more work than it's worth. However, the article notes that 2 to 3 percent of all charitable...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Relocating? 4 Ways to Research Housing Prices
- Dear Ali; I'm thinking of moving for my new career. How do I get a handle on what housing prices are going to be in my target city? A: Before you move, mouse. I'm not always a...
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Is Your City a Top Real Estate Market?
- They list, I blog. BusinessWeek and Forbes have come out with their own discrete, but somewhat complementary, lists of America's Top Cities for Housing after analyzing market data provided by Zillow.com let me here wave hi to Zillow chief economist Stan Humphries. Here's what you need to know about them:...
- Blog posts 2009-08-14
- Searching for Ski Cabins? Here's Where to Start
- Dear Ali; I found your column today while searching for data on the number of ski properties in the U.S. Do you have any suggestions on getting reasonably accurate data about how many ski homes/condos/cottages/etc. there are currently in the country? A: Shame on...
- Blog posts 2009-07-29
- Housing Prices Bottom, But Not for Everyone
- In the depressed world of American real estate prices, "down 17.1 percent from a year ago" is good news. That's how much the May S&P/Case-Shiller numbers, an index of housing prices in twenty major cities across the U.S., had declined when they came out yesterday. Yet today's headlines, you'll see,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-30
- Three Million Mortgages Still Need to be Modified
- What a great real estate panel KCBS just threw! In addition to getting me out to San Francisco (what a wonderful town, I can't ever visit enough) "Making Lemons into Lemonade: Practical Tools for the Current Real Estate Market" provided a great snapshot of current real estate problems and opportunities....
- Blog posts 2009-08-01
- A Peek Inside Madonna's $40 Million Townhouse
- Dear Ali: You're a high-end Realtor. Tell us, what does Madonna's new $40 million townhouse look like? A: It's a triple-wide, which means it measures out at 57 feet across. For those of you who live in houses, that's twice as wide as a big living room....
- Blog posts 2009-04-14
- A Bidding Lesson from Madonna
- If there's one "Ask the Agent" question I get all the time, it's this: "I like a home that's listed for sale at the price of $X. What should I bid on it? Should it be 90% of $X, or 80% of $X?" And I say, over and over,...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
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