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        <title>Atlanta Real Estate Blog</title>
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        <description>Atlanta Real Estate Blog - a complete Atlanta Home Guide helping local buyers, sellers and investors make informed decisions through insightful market news and analysis.</description>
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            <author>joshua@realsourcebrokers.com (Joshua Keen)</author>
            <title>Atlanta Foreclosure Report: February 2010</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
In February foreclosure notices skyrocketed 27 percent erasing the memory of declines reported in January. A total of 10,357 notices were published this month compared with 8,181 last month. 

The most recent report by Equity Depot also reveals a 34 percent year-over-year (YoY) increase with 7,701 published foreclosures notice in Februray 2009. 


What's striking is there is no marked difference in foreclosure rates relative to price range or geography.&nbsp; 

It's seems this recession doesn'... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 08:21:48 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>joshua@realsourcebrokers.com (Joshua Keen)</author>
            <title>FHA Changes the Investment Game</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
In addition to residential sales, my team is heavily involved in helping investors profit by investing in foreclosure properties. Mainly by purchasing small single family homes in Atlanta foreclosure market at 60% to 70% of future value, rehabbing them, and quickly reselling them for a healthy profit. Most of these properties are in blue collar neighborhoods that we resell to first time buyers using FHA insured financing. Most of the foreclosed properties we purchase were also financed by FHA i... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:08:58 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>joshua@realsourcebrokers.com (Joshua Keen)</author>
            <title>Atlanta Foreclosure Report: January 2010</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
2009 was a record setting year in Metro Atlanta with 117,107 published foreclosure notices.

And the 2010 outlook doesn't look promising as the economy and job market continues to show signs of weakness.

But with just 8,181 foreclosure notices filed in Janaury 2010 we're able to breathe a small sigh of relief.&nbsp; Surprisingly, we saw the first January-to-January decline in 10 years. &nbsp; So what is the can this decline be attributed to?&nbsp; Likely a combination of several factors, not t... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:45:39 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>joshua@realsourcebrokers.com (Joshua Keen)</author>
            <title>Move Your Money</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
 Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. 

I urge you to read, watch and take action.
 ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:19:25 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>joshua@realsourcebrokers.com (Joshua Keen)</author>
            <title>The Year In Atlanta Real Estate</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves

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Now that Christmas (and 2009) is behind us, it's time to look at &quot;the year that was&quot; for Intown Atlanta real estate. &nbsp; The vast Intown market requires we chunk this data down
to more granular levels.&nbsp; It's only there, in the market-by-market comparisons, that information like this is of value.&nbsp; 

But to keep things simple and to lay our foundation ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:12:59 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>joshua@realsourcebrokers.com (Joshua Keen)</author>
            <title>2009 Atlanta Foreclosure Report</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
According to the most recent report from Equity Depot (an Alpharetta based firm), the Atlanta real estate market had a record setting 117,107 foreclosures notices filed in 2009.&nbsp; That's a
near 50 percent increase over the previous record in 2008. 

The report goes on to disclose a 10 percent increase in foreclosures compared to November (month over month) and ... get
this ... a whopping 77 percent increase over December 2008 (year over year). 

Gwinnett county led the pack with 2,074 for... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:18:17 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>joshua@realsourcebrokers.com (Joshua Keen)</author>
            <title>Taxation Without Representation</title>
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In the wake of the 2008 real estate meltdown lies Georgia's property tax system - in shambles.


Atlanta Home Values have plummetted but, as the AJC reports today, county tax appraisals are not along for the ride down.


In examining 550,000 residential property tax records in 5 major
Metro counties (Fulton, Dekalb, Gwinnett, Cobb and Clayton) it was
determined county appraisals are higher - in some cases, much higher -
than your property is now worth.


What Does This Mean For You? 

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            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:48:46 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>joshua@realsourcebrokers.com (Joshua Keen)</author>
            <title>The If and When of Recovery (video)</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
It's worth taking a look at this recent Wall Street Journal interview with Real Estate expert John L. Burns.



Mr. Burns confirms a lot of what I've been predicting for months now for the 2010-2011 Atlanta real estate market.


In the video he explains why FHA loans and migth contribute to a prolonged recovery.

Here are a few reasons why 2010 will not be the year of recovery: 


**We are likely to see what economists refer to as a &lsquo;W&rsquo; shaped recovery&hellip;recent news and the... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:31:12 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>joshua@realsourcebrokers.com (Joshua Keen)</author>
            <title>The Market Is What The Market Does</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
There are a number of ways to analyze exisiting homes sales.&nbsp; Today I'm looking at comparative monthly homes sales not &quot;seasonally adjusted&quot;.

So what you're looking at here is a graph that shows monthly existing homes sales&nbsp;from 2005 to 2009.&nbsp; And what you're seeing is that for the&nbsp;5th straight month, sales are higher in 2009 vs. 2008.&nbsp;&nbsp; And for 2 consecutive months now we've seen sales higher in 2009 vs. 2007. 



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Why the improvement?&nbsp; It g... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:19:53 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>joshua@realsourcebrokers.com (Joshua Keen)</author>
            <title>Walking Away</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
I was talking with one of my top investor clients a couple days ago and he mentioned he &quot;walked away&quot; (aka foreclosed) from two investment properties last month. The two properties - both Atlanta condos - had lost a combined $250,000 in value over the last 18 months.&nbsp; Meanwhile, the bank holding the note refused to entertain 3 bonafied short sale offers, denied application to modify the adjustable rate mortgage and increased his monthly interest payment $600 a month.&nbsp;

Forec... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 05:56:24 -0500</pubDate>
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