The Woodlands Real Estate

The Woodlands Real Estate Voice is a collaboration of voices from the The Woodlands real estate market. This is a great opportunity for those of us in the area who are passionate, or even just remotely interested, in real estate and community happenings, to talk about things that matter to us! You can subscribe by email [...]

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As bank failures and bailouts top each day’s headlines, it’s becoming difficult for most buyers and sellers not to get discouraged. But for many, due to job relocation, divorce, space or school needs, they must stay in the real estate market. As real estate experts, The Chappell Team asked has some advice to buyers and sellers caught in the market’s [...]

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When financial markets go through ups and downs that defy conventional wisdom, as they clearly are these days, many salespeople can get confused by the increasingly up and down behavior of their customers.  While some customer groups act as if they were in a boom cycle, other customers react and prepare for the doom and gloom [...]

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“Experts” love to make their predictions. When it comes to the housing market, well respected forecasters and analysts may disagree when commenting on the stabilizing of home prices in the U.S. housing markets. Even if a forecast proves to be true nationally, your local market may behave in a wildly different way. The disconnect between [...]

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Yesterday the US Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, announced a plan to prop up Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. To sum it up, he basically said that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac hold a central role in our housing finance system and must continue to do so in their current form as share holder owned companies. [...]

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Real Estate appraisers from around the country gathered this past week in a big conference in Austin, TX to talk about the value of building green! Austin hosted a seminar on how green-building components can affect property values and appraisers looked at issues such as the most cost-efficient sustainable building elements and how appraisers can [...]

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We are all feeling the pain at the gas pump. To help ease the pain, the IRS has increased the mileage reimbursement rates for July to December 2008. Business: 58.5 cents Moving & Medicare: 27 cents Charitable: 14 cents “The IRS is recognizing the increases in the recent gasoline prices by increasing the optional standard [...]

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