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        <description>Gloria Singer's real estate blog will provide you with valuable information about the Boca Raton real estate (and surrounding area) scene.</description>
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            <author>gloria@bocaexpert.com (Gloria Singer)</author>
            <title>Short Sale Myth #1: Boca Raton Short Sales Do Not Get Approved</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ With short sales making up over twenty percent of all Boca Raton real estate listings, and over thirty percent of those listings under $400,000, it is time to answer some commonly held questions and misperceptions about short sales.SHORT SALE MYTH #1: Short sales take 9-12 months and do not get approved. This is the most difficult part of a short sale process for both buyers and sellers. The lenders are slammed with files and do not always respond promptly. And it is true that the lender will no... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2010 14:48:16 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>gloria@bocaexpert.com (Gloria Singer)</author>
            <title>The Boca Raton Real Estate Market continues to be a strong Buyer's Market</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ I have been spending some time examining the Boca Raton real estate market and the underlying statistics of what is happening in our area. I think it's important to discuss the market in terms of price bands, as we have a wide range of inventory and price ranges in our local market. As an example, I have analyzed the current situation for single family homes in Boca Raton, in various price ranges. Check out this chart below:What is most interesting to me is that the number of months of inventory... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:04:47 -0500</pubDate>
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            <title>Just sold 17052 Boca Club Blvd - Greens at Boca Country Club</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ &nbsp;We are happy to announce the successful closing of our listing at 17052 Boca Club Blvd in the Greens development of Boca Country Club. These Boca Raton Real Estate&nbsp;buyers are a lovely couple from the New York area who will be using the townhouse as a vacation home.&nbsp;The sellers are from Venezuela, and recently bought another property in Broken Sound Country Club.This property was on the market for less than sixty days, and sold for 87% at the asking price. A 3 bedroom 2000 square ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:29:51 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>gloria@bocaexpert.com (Gloria Singer)</author>
            <title>What to anticipate in 2010? Where is the Boca Raton real estate market headed? Part One</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ I am participating this week in the National Real Estate Cyber Convention and just attended a keynote presentation by Lawrence Yun, the chief economist of the 1.2 Million member National Association of Realtors and widely considered one of the top ten economic forecasters in the country. Here are some of the highlights of Mr. Yun's very interesting talk about what to anticipate in 2010. This is part one of my recap of his lecture. The second part will be covered in a separate blog post:Predictio... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:24:19 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>gloria@bocaexpert.com (Gloria Singer)</author>
            <title>2009 Boca Raton Area Luxury Real Estate Market Wrap-Up</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ The news continues to be bleak for the luxury real estate market in Boca Raton, Delray Beach, and Highland Beach at the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010.Last fall I wrote a blog post about the Boca Raton Luxury Market for the six months ending September 30, 2009.&nbsp; THis is a followup to that previous post.I have examined the current state of the market for properties in excess of $1,000,000 for the last half of 2009.Here are the number of sold properties in relation to current listings for ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:04:23 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>gloria@bocaexpert.com (Gloria Singer)</author>
            <title>Montoya Circle Boca Raton 2009 Real Estate Market Wrap-up</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ There were a total of 24 home sales that closed in Montoya Circle Boca Raton in 2009. That's a decline of about 20% from those closed in 2008. Montoya Circle, like the rest of the Boca Raton and Palm Beach County area, felt the impact of the recession and prices have declined sharply from the peak of Summer of 2006 and have even declined sharply over the 2008 average prices. Several of the sales have been short sales and foreclosures, and the general Boca Raton market conditions prevail in Monto... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:47:45 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>gloria@bocaexpert.com (Gloria Singer)</author>
            <title>BOCA RATON LUXURY REAL ESTATE MARKET IN DOLDRUMS. BUY NOW IF YOU CAN!!</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ The sales of luxury properties in the Boca Raton, Highland Beach and Delray Beach real estate market continues to stagnate. I have prepared a couple of graphs which illustrate the great amount of unsold inventory which is on the market in the over one million dollar price ranges. This segment represents approximately 13% of the total listings on the market. For purposes of this article, I have examined all listings in excess of one million dollars in Boca Raton, Highland Beach, and Delray Beach.... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:33:25 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>gloria@bocaexpert.com (Gloria Singer)</author>
            <title>Appraisals in today's crazy real estate market!</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ Your House As Seen By:&nbsp;Yourself:&nbsp;Your Buyer:Your Lender:The Appraiser:and last but not least, the Palm Beach County Property Tax Assessor:This was sent to me by my friend and colleague John List, who I work with at Lang Realty. I thought it was really funny and apropo. Appraisals in particular are a big issue in our market. In the coming weeks I will be writing about some situations with appraisals that are true stories and are keeping sellers trapped in their homes and unable to sell ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:13:26 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>gloria@bocaexpert.com (Gloria Singer)</author>
            <title>GREAT NEWS FOR BOCA RATON HOMEBUYERS</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 



GREAT NEWS FOR BOCA
  RATON HOMEBUYERS:

IT&rsquo;S TIME TO GET OFF
THAT FENCE!

&nbsp;

Everyone is talking about the fact that the S &amp; P
Case-Shiller home price index, which tracks home prices in 20 metropolitan
areas, rose for the first time in 34 straight months of decline. Various
housing indicators are showing glimmers of hope that the housing market is
improving.&nbsp;

We all know that real estate is LOCAL so I have decided to
drill down into the numbers a bit.... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:44:56 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>gloria@bocaexpert.com (Gloria Singer)</author>
            <title>Central &amp; West Boca Raton Real Estate Market Statistics - May 2009</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ Below please find the&nbsp;May 2009 sales activity within the Central and West Boca area of Boca Raton real estate&nbsp;&nbsp;- which encompasses all&nbsp;homes and condos/townhomes&nbsp;sold located West of Military Trail. &nbsp; As shown in the May 2009 Boca Raton East Market Statistics blog, here are some additional property analysis with regard to the above sales, which shows both the breakdown of prices and number of days each property took to sell:Please bookmark this site to stay in touch... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:26:31 -0500</pubDate>
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