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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>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>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.
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:19:25 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>joshua@realsourcebrokers.com (Joshua Keen)</author>
            <title>Timing The Atlanta Market</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
The Case-Shiller data for October was released today.

Good news first: seasonally adjusted data shows a 5th consecutive increase for nationwide home prices.&nbsp;&nbsp; 

Now the bad news: continued weakness in the Atlanta market with -.2% month over month; -8.1% for the year and a whopping -19.6% since the peak of the market in April of 2007.

The good, the bad and the ugly news: depending on whether you're a buyer/investor (good), seller (bad) or lender (ugly) we have seen prices this low si... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:06:43 -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>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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            <author>joshua@realsourcebrokers.com (Joshua Keen)</author>
            <title>Credit Crisis Explained</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
Ok.  So we all have some idea how we got here, right?  We've all heard the terms at least.  Credit crisis.  Subprime mortgages.  Foreclosure.  Securitized debt.  Bernanke. AIG.  Leyman Brothers.  Wall Street.  Main Street.  Greenspan.  Federal Reserve.  Treasury.  Under water.  Credit Default Swaps.  Meltdown.  Crisis.  National Debt.  GDP. Recession.  Depression.


But just how did we get here?


And how why exactly has the entire economy suffered so much at the hands of this Credit Crisis?
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            <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:16:57 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>joshua@realsourcebrokers.com (Joshua Keen)</author>
            <title>Back To The Future</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
You may have read my blog post on Forbes ranking Atlanta Real Estate
#13 on the list of best cities to buy a home.&nbsp; After reading the
article...I did a little poking around other news sites to see what
they have to say about the Atlanta housing market.&nbsp; A few google
searches later...I found an article over at CNN Money written in 2007
titled &quot;How to Play The Real Estate Bounce Back.&quot;&nbsp; 

An interesting subject for an article written in 2007, for sure. But it's the &amp;... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:06:59 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>joshua@realsourcebrokers.com (Joshua Keen)</author>
            <title>In Atlanta, Developers Destroy Hopes of Recovery</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ 
The Wall Street journal recently reported the Atlanta Real Estate market is suffering from that oft-repeated term that has come to define our current ecnonomy: &quot;irrational excuberance&quot;.

They site a 1 mile section of Buckhead Real Estate as a prime example of an emerging trend in the United States commercial real estate sector.&nbsp; A trend that stands as an obstacle to economic recovery. 

According to the article, several prominent Atlanta developers are in the process of construct... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:29:02 -0500</pubDate>
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