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Welcome to our Real Estate section where you'll find helpful information, tools and advice that can assist you with all things real estate, mortgage and moving. Advice from industry experts will help as you plan for the purchase or sale of homes, search for the right mortgage, choose a moving company, plan international moving, buy insurance, and plan home improvement projects in your new home.
Preparing for Your Move
Mortgage, Insurance, & Finance
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Some mortgage basics
- Understanding the Basics of Your Credit Score Can Help you Score the Best Mortgage
- 4 quick tips to improve your credit score today
- Mortgage company offers relief to homeowners affected by recent flooding
- Mortgage affordability
- Finding the best refinance rates
- Understanding refinancing rates
- Auto insurance accidents
- Homeowners insurance
- Insurance and life events
- Life-Insurance coverage
- How to ensure good insurance
- New cash idea for homeowners
- Simple ways to raise your credit score
- Why you should (and shouldn't) pay off your mortgage
- How to bypass the bank and get a loan
Moving Advice from the Experts
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Understanding your move estimate
- Understanding your moving valuation
- Handling high value items
- Understanding the relationship between move weight and your moving costs
- How to handle your moving day
- The moving claim process
Auto Transport
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Money Saving Tips for Your Move
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5 simple things to save on your next full service move
- Understanding deductible moving expenses
- Understanding self service moving options
- Save money on your move with self service packing
- Renting a truck for your do-it-yourself move
- Financial Q&A: What account is best when saving for a home?
Working with Professional Moving Companies
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Choosing the best moving company for your move
- Five important things to tell movers
- Interviewing professional moving companies
Real Estate & Related Trends
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Adjusting to a buyer's market
- Selling your home in a slower market
- Real estate agents target divorcees in down economy
- Most popular US cities to relocate
- McMansions migrate from 'burb to city
- Boomers start to downsize
- A land squeeze in America's Chinatowns
- Incredible shrinking houses
- Let the home auction bidder beware
- No end in sight for housing slump
- One path to affordable housing
Moving Internationally
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Learning the language of your new country
- Making an international move
- Most popular countries to relocate
- International culture shock
- International moving mistakes
- Investment propels a real estate boom for Panama
- Real estate investors find solid gains overseas
- The other half of the immigration equation
Etcetera
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Preventing mold in your storage space
- How to choose the realtor that is right for you
- Attorneys claim toxins are seepng into California neighborhood
- In housing downturn, a new uncertainty factor
- Amid recession jitters, world's financial system vulnerable
- Dollar, oil prices hint of inflation
- Energy costs this winter: high
- A loophole could dim impact in proposed energy-saving bill
- States' coffers are feeling a pinch
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