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Real Estate News

• Pending real estate sales bode well for area - 10/27/2009
  

  The table has been set for a strong finish to the real estate sales year in Jackson County.

• North Medford vacant lots auctioned - 10/19/2009
  

  Half of a planned unit development known as Thurman Court in north Medford will go on the auction block next month.

• Foreclosures rise 5% from summer to fall - 10/15/2009
  

  WASHINGTON — The number of households caught up in the foreclosure crisis rose more than 5 percent from summer to fall as a federal effort to...

• 'Distressed' properties spur home sales - 10/7/2009
  

  Jackson County's home sales were up for the eighth-straight month in September.

• Have $8 million? You can buy Medford's Bella Vista - 9/9/2009
  

  Bella Vista Heights, an upscale subdivision overlooking east Medford, is now available at a bargain rate.

• Real estate activity picks up in Jackson Co. - 9/5/2009
  

  More than 500 single-family residences exchanged hands this summer in Jackson County as real estate activity picked up by nearly 27 percent over the...

• Home-buyers program expires after Thanksgiving - 9/1/2009
  

  Three months might seem like a long time to house-hunters.

• Home-buying frenzy - 7/21/2009
  

  PHOENIX — Each time Lance and Kelli Thorson thought they had found their first home, someone would outbid them.

• A bad economic mix - 7/17/2009
  

  WASHINGTON — Relentlessly rising unemployment is triggering more home foreclosures, threatening the Obama administration's efforts to end the...

• Foreclosures rise almost 15% in first half of year - 7/16/2009
  

  WASHINGTON — The number of U.S.

• Helping homebuyers - 7/13/2009
  

  Medford resident Tom Ellis had mixed feelings of joy and dread when his $192,000 offer on a foreclosed house in the Abraham Lincoln Elementary...

• Poll finds home buyers remain cautious - 7/9/2009
  

  WASHINGTON — More than half of potential home buyers say they're still not prepared to jump into the market, and fear of losing their jobs is...

• Home sales continue to rise in Jackson County - 7/8/2009
  

  Sales of existing homes increase 37 percent from year ago; median sales price still below last year's average.

• Mortgage refinances sinking as rates go up - 6/17/2009
  

  Sparked by lucrative low-interest rates, the mortgage-refinance business zipped along at a clip disproportionate to the rest of the residential...

• Record 12% of homeowners are behind on their payments - 5/29/2009
  

  NEW YORK — The mortgage crisis is spreading and hitting new heights: Borrowers with good credit now make up the largest share of foreclosures...

• New home sales inch upward - 5/29/2009
  

  WASHINGTON — Sales of newly built homes were flat last month, but were 7 percent above the rock-bottom lows of January as the battered U.S.

• Mobile devices put listings in the palms of their hands - 5/27/2009
  

  BALTIMORE — Often when real-estate agent Karen Fick is showing a house, the prospective buyers will spot another home for sale down the street...

• 'Web appeal is the new curb appeal' for home buyers - 5/22/2009
  

  LOS ANGELES — A picture might equal 1,000 words, but it just isn't good enough for many home sellers anymore.