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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>Palm Beach County Property Tax 2010 notices mailed this week~ Important Info about appealing your taxes!</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ Beginning Monday, August
 23, 2010, the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser&rsquo;s office mailed the
 proposed property taxes for 2010. In the notice, there is a breakdown 
of millage rates , the property&rsquo;s assessed and taxable values (as of 
January 1, 2010), and any exemptions applied. Read your notice 
closely. 
Although unfortunately millage rates have gone up in most areas, the 
values have declined. (example: I am an owner of Boca Raton Real Estate. My market value 
decline... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:13:38 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>gloria@bocaexpert.com (Gloria Singer)</author>
            <title>Lockbox vs Agent Accompany showings: Which is better for the Seller?</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ Please allow me to vent. I was just scheduling some showings to take a buyer out to see some two bedroom condos in Regency in Boca Pointe. I have a listing there, which she saw online, &nbsp;but she also wanted to see some other condos as well as mine. Four in total. Mine is easy to show. I have a key, plus it is on a supra lockbox for the convenience of co-operating Realtors. All the others required appointments with the listing agents. So I figured out the schedule, which is very dependent upo... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:40:24 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>gloria@bocaexpert.com (Gloria Singer)</author>
            <title>Just Sold in Courtside of Broken Sound Country Club ~ This was a Short Sale</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ &nbsp;I just sold this gorgeous courtyard home in the Courtside subdivision of Broken Sound Country Club. For those of you who don't know the lingo, a Courtyard Home is one in which the swimming pool and patio are in the front of the house. You usually enter through the entrance doors into a courtyard and then the front door of the house is through the courtyard. Many courtyard homes in Boca Raton have detached guest houses as well.&nbsp;This stunning home in Broken Sound Club has four bedrooms ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:31:50 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>gloria@bocaexpert.com (Gloria Singer)</author>
            <title>Just Sold 4740 South Ocean Blvd ~ Braemar Isle Condo Highland Beach</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ This fabulous condo in Bramar Isles in Boca Highlands was just sold by my buyer's specialist Karen Rothstein. It is a ninth floor condo with fabulous intracoastal views. Stunning completely redone including brand new kitchen, baths, state of the art stainless appliances, toto toilets, and so much more including an absolutely stunning panoramic intracoastal view pictured above.Boca Highlands is a gated waterfront community with a private beach club, tennis, swimming pools, fitness center, and mar... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 10:07:50 -0500</pubDate>
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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>Just Sold 4301 N Ocean Blvd - Sea Ranch Club of Boca Raton</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ &nbsp;I just sold this fabulous condo in Sea Ranch! It is on the tenth floor of the &quot;A&quot; building, with fabulous ocean and intracoastal views from every room!This condo is two bedrooms, two baths, and over 1900 square feet under A/C. The Boca Raton condo was originally listed in November of 2009 for $629,000 and then subsequently reduced to $585,000. My client picked up this great unit for $530,000! Sea Ranch is a wonderful guard gated oceanfront community in Boca Raton with four towers... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 14:54:01 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>karen@bocaexpert.com (Karen Rothstein)</author>
            <title>Karen Rothstein's first Blog Post- About finding a good Boca Raton real estate deal</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ &lsquo;IF YOU CAN FIND ME A &ldquo;GREAT DEAL&rdquo; PLEASE LET ME&nbsp;KNOW&hellip;THAT&rsquo;S WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR!&rdquo;&nbsp; This is probably the most frequent request I hear when working with a&nbsp;buyer looking for Boca Raton real estate. &nbsp;Of course I haven&rsquo;t met anyone who has said, &ldquo;price doesn&rsquo;t matter&rdquo;. The truth of the matter is really quite simple. It&rsquo;s all inventory whether it is a Boca Raton&nbsp;short sale, Boca Raton Foreclosure or a regula... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:09:02 -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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            <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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