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FURCRON REALTORS INC.
Furcron Realtors and Property Management are South Padre Island's top choice for out of town investors and full time Island residence because we understand it takes more than just buying and selling real estate to make great investments. View listings and MLS, and useful information about buying, selling, and maintaining property here on South Padre Island, Port Isabel and Laguna Vista, TX. Are the gulf coast's finest real estate agents for coastal properties. 4800 Padre Blvd., South Padre Island, TX 78597 (956) 761-6961 or 1-(800) 892-6278 FurcronRealtors.com Blanche Evans, Editor
Blanche Evans is the award-winning editor of Realty Times, the Internet's largest independent real estate news service, where she oversees the nation's leading real estate writers and columnists. Blanche has been named one of the "25 Most Influential People In Real Estate" by REALTOR Magazine, recognized as one of nine "Notables," and was named "Top Reporter Covering the NAR." (Delahaye-Bacon's, 2005) Known for her keen insight into real estate industry issues and for her ability to make complex subjects easy to understand for consumers and professionals alike, her newest book, Bubbles, Booms and Busts: Make Money In Any Real Estate Market, McGraw-Hill, is already causing a sensation in the publishing world, and has been rave-reviewed by The New York Times, September 24th, 2006. http://realtytimes.com/rtcpages/blanche.htm RANCHO VIEJO
Rancho Viejo is a relaxed, golf oriented community and resort that stretches across 1,400 verdant acres in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of tropical Texas. At 26.04 degrees latitude, the lower Rio Grande valley is at the southernmost point of the mainland United States, practically due west of Miami. 1-800-531-7400 Read More: CONSUMER INFORMATION
The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) is the state agency responsible for licensing real estate professionals in Texas. TREC is here to assist and protect consumers of real estate services by requiring that all real estate brokers and salespersons meet and maintain specified levels of education to hold a license to act as a real estate agent. Agents are required to follow the provisions of the Real Estate License Act and the Rules of the Texas Real Estate Commission in all transactions and deal with the public in a competent and honest manner. The Commission also licenses real estate inspectors, residential service companies, real estate schools and registers timeshare properties. Read More: REAL ESTATE IN TEXAS
Whether you’re buying or selling, remodeling pays off
The National Association of Home Builders estimated that consumers plan to spend more on remodeling their homes this year – a whopping $233 billion, as opposed to $228 billion just last year. The new Leading Indicator for Remodeling Activity, developed by Harvard, shows that home improvement spending by homeowners in 2007 is projected to increase by 3.6%. That’s down from 11% last year, but homeowner spending on remodeling projects is expected to grow 44% by 2015. And in Texas, homeowner remodeling expenditures aren’t expected to decrease much at all. “So far, the biggest blow to the Texas residential sales market has been isolated to the new-home market, particularly houses valued at less than $200,000,” says Mark Dotzour, Ph.D., chief economist with the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University. “To the extent that the housing sales weakness stays focused in the new-home market, I would expect Texas remodeling to continue to have strength.” Read More: |
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