Luxury Real Estate Partners today announced a partnership with Smarter Agent to provide Las Vegas condo listings on smart phones and tablets.

The app uses GPS to identify Las Vegas Condos for sale in the user’s immediate geographic area, when available. Users also can search by a U.S. address, city or zip code to see property details including price, square footage, estimated mortgage, taxes, features, maps and pictures for all homes for sale in a specified area.

“Luxury Real Estate Partners Mobile is leading the charge on the growing mobile marketplace and helping our team own the mobile relationship with current and potential clients,” said Anthony Phillips, President, Luxury Real Estate Partners. “Luxury Real Estate Partners Mobile is unique in that it offers downloadable apps for the iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Palm and standard cell phones across all carriers, as well as a mobile web search version, enabling our network to virtually reach all homebuyers that use mobile devices, in Las Vegas.”

Luxury Real Estate Partners Mobile features includes a Refine Search capability that allows users to narrow their search by selecting a price range, property type and number of bedrooms and bathrooms. If a user has questions or wants a tour of the property, the Call feature immediately connects them to a Luxury Real Estate Partners representative. A new Contact feature allows them to either call or e-mail the agent for additional property information from within the app. Additional enhancements include the ability to save a search or favorite properties to view later, send a property to a friend via text or e-mail and forward the Luxury Real Estate Partners Mobile app to any cell phone user via text message. [click to continue reading the press release…]

LendingTree today released an infographic with the states with the highest and lowest average mortgage down payment.  New Jersey leads the nation with a 13.76% average down payment.  North Dakota is last, with an average 11.37% down payment.

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New Jersey Leads Nation in Highest Average Mortgage Down Payment According to LendingTree.com

Midwest states, including Wyoming and North Dakota, rank at bottom of list

Charlotte, NC, December 8, 2011 – With the housing market continuing to struggle and fewer consumers being able to purchase a new home or apartment, LendingTree.com, the nation’s leading online lender exchange and personal finance resource, today released data highlighting the average down payments on residential real estate purchases for all 50 states and Washington D.C.  New Jersey leads the country with the highest average down payment of 13.76%.  The state with the lowest average down payment is North Dakota, where buyers put down an average of 11.37%.   [click to continue reading the press release…]

Prudential Real Estate Sells to Real Living (Brookfield Asset Management)

December 7, 2011

Brookfield Residential Property Services Announces Acquisition of Prudential Real Estate and Relocation Services Acquisition creates global residential real estate and employee relocation services leader Today, Brookfield Residential Property Services (“Brookfield”), a Brookfield Asset Management Inc. affiliate, announced that it has purchased Prudential Real Estate and Relocation Services (“PRERS”), a recognized leader in employee relocation and [...]

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Commercial Real Estate Tops as Best Investment Alternative in 3Q11

December 1, 2011

Multifamily continues to lead recovery according to new CCIM Institute and RERC data. CHICAGO, IL (Dec. 1, 2011)— In 3Q11, commercial real estate ranked highest among investment alternatives, followed by cash, in CCIM Institute and Real Estate Research Corp.’s 4Q11 RERC/CCIM Investment Trends Quarterly.  “Despite the investment losses taken with commercial real estate during the [...]

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How Bill Clinton Boosts Palm Springs CA Real Estate

November 16, 2011

Brad Schmett of Luxury Homes by Keller Williams has announced today that Palm Springs CA real estate is getting a big boost from Bill Clinton and the new Bob Hope Classic Golf Tournament, now called the Humana Challenge. La Quinta, California (PRWEB) November 15, 2011 Brad Schmett, Broker Associate with Luxury Homes by Keller Williams [...]

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Coldwell Banker Howard Joins Forces with Zip Realty

November 10, 2011

ZIPREALTY SIGNS NUMBER ONE RALEIGH BROKERAGE TO ITS POWERED BY ZIP PROGRAM Coldwell Banker Howard and Perry Walston partners with ZipRealty to utilize online customer sourcing and incubation system EMERYVILLE, Calif. – November 10, 2011 – ZipRealty, (www.ziprealty.com; NASDAQ: ZIPR), the real estate company powered by web-based, proprietary technology and effective online marketing, announced today [...]

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Over 20% of Phoenix Home Buyers Get Help From Parents

November 9, 2011

New Real Estate Market Trend Emerging in Phoenix Adult Children Receiving Help From Parents in over 20% of Home Purchases Toma Partners, LLC, a luxury Phoenix real estate company, finds a powerful trend emerging where parents are backing their adult children in the purchase of homes in Phoenix. More than 20% of current transactions involve [...]

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Zip Realty Drops Forced Registration on MLS Listings

October 26, 2011

Company cites shifts in consumer demand as main driver for change ZipRealty the nationally-ranked real estate brokerage powered by proprietary technology and effective online marketing, today announced the Company has opened access to its comprehensive online services by removing the registration requirement on the majority of the ZipRealty website. Effective immediately in most of ZipRealty’s [...]

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Short Sale Property

October 21, 2011

Home Ownership Drops to Lowest in Decades Best Time to Invest in a Short Sale Property through Exit Realty The United States has seen the biggest decline in home ownership since the Great Depression, with the rate of ownership falling to 65.1 percent as of April 2010. That number is just over one percentage point [...]

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Oak Bay Beach Hotel vacation hotel suites

October 17, 2011

First 10 buyers guaranteed 3.9 per cent annual return of investment Having already successfully sold out of all phase one and two revenue-generating vacation hotel suites, the owners and developers of Victoria’s Oak Bay Beach Hotel have just launched phase three – rewarding the first 10 buyers with a whale of an investment return. The [...]

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