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• Buying a Property: Five Emotional Mistakes Made by NYC Homebuyers

  Nation Pulse By Michael Estrin / 4 September 2012 / 1 comment

  

  13:45:42 | 2012-09-04 (New York, NY) – Real estate agents say emotional mistakes are common among homebuyers, who sometimes let good deals pass them by. Or worse, buyers overpay for their “dream homes” because they let feelings cloud their judgment. But buyers shouldn’t beat themselves up for getting emotional. Buying a home is often the biggest purchase a person will make. Homebuyers “need someone in their corner who can counsel them and make sure they are… FULL STORY

   

• Award-Winning Architect Frank Gehry Designing Facebook West

  Nation Pulse By Lisa Prado / 28 August 2012 / 0 comments

  

  16:13:31 | 2012-08-28 (Menlo Park, CA) – World-renowned Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry has created ingenious, breathtaking designs for iconic institutions around the globe like Condé Nast Publications, IAC, Walt Disney, the Guggenheim and more – having left his mark with architectural works of art that have become tourist attractions. Most recently, we have seen his New York by Gehry at 8 Spruce Street in Manhattan’s Financial District. At 870 feet, the rippled stainless steel tower is… FULL STORY

   

• Realty TV: Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Launches Television Show

  Nation Pulse By Lisa Prado / 12 March 2012 / 0 comments

  

  Better Homes and Gardens(R) Real Estate today unveiled its new online and television reality series, “Home, First Home”(SM). The series, which features real stories from first-time homebuyers across the country, as well as advice from Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate affiliated sales associates, launches today online at youtube.com/bhgrealestate and will air on the nationally syndicated lifestyle television show “The Better Show” in more than 150 U.S. markets from March through June 2012. “Better Homes… FULL STORY

   

• Starting Today, MLS Real Estate Holdings Must Disclose Bank Ownership

  Nation Pulse By Lisa Prado / 6 March 2012 / 0 comments

  

  Starting today, a service used by real estate agents to list homes for sale will require that agents disclose whether a bank owns the property. The change comes two days after The Palm Beach Post reported that some banks, including Wells Fargo, tell real estate agents not to disclose the bank’s ownership on the Multiple Listing Service. Until now, the MLS in this region did not require agents to describe a home as being “bank owned,”… FULL STORY

   

• Interactive map shows NYC impulse, for energy [See the MAP]

  Nation Pulse By BrokerPulse / 3 February 2012 / 0 comments

  

  New York uses a lot of energy (remember that time during the heat wave when we used a trillion watts?!) and with Con Edison charging us twice the national average for us to use it, maybe it’s time we became a little more self-aware of how and where all this power’s being used? Enter Vijay Modi, a professor of mechanical engineering at Columbia University, and graduate student Bianca Howard, who’ve put together an incredible interactive… FULL STORY

   

• NY Broker! You Better Wear Sunscreen Today

  Nation Pulse By Michael Miller / 24 January 2012 / 0 comments

  

  A huge eruption on the Sun has caused the strongest radiation storm since 2005, which is due to hit Earth on Tuesday, Jan 24, possibly causing widespread communications interference. The eruption occurred late on January 22, 2012 sending a burst of energized solar particles towards Earth at about 5 million miles an hour (2,000 km per second). SpaceWeather.com ranks this geomagnetic storm “strong” or S3, meaning it may expose passengers in high-flying aircraft to radiation… FULL STORY