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If there's one thing everyone seems to care about, it's how the real estate market is faring in their own neighborhoods. Twice each year, Kurfiss Sotheby's International Realty, with data from real-estate expert Charles "Chuck" Cosgrove, prepares Buy & Sell, a market report looking at sales volume, inventory trends, prices and luxury-market activity in Bucks, …
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Juliana Martell is a young woman in a hurry. The Manayunk resident began working part-time in real estate while she was in college pursuing a business degree (and an M.B.A. directly after her bachelor's degree) from Philadelphia University. Even though she was limited to helping Temple University students find rental apartments, she found real estate interesting enough …
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We are just about to publish our new issue of Buy/Sell, the market summary for the greater Philadelphia real estate area, but until that finishes production in early September, here's a preview of the home sales data from Donald Pearson, chairman, Kurfiss Sotheby's International Realty. On the whole, the market certainly has improved from one …
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Here in southeastern Pennsylvania, we are fortunate to have one of the finest collections of historical homes in the United States, some built prior to the Revolutionary War and many dating to the late 1700s and early 1800s. Philadelphia has more 19th-century housing stock than any other U.S. city, a primary reason we just love the streetscapes in many …
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It's 90+ degrees in southeastern Pennsylvania this week, and it's these dog days of summer when we really wish we had a pool to come home to. Did you know Pennsylvania is a Top 10 state in terms of number of in-ground pools, according to the Association of Pool & Spa Professionals? There are more …
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Just a short time ago, Jill Johnson and Stephanie Biello represented Philadelphia's 10 Rittenhouse luxury condominium building during its construction phase, handling some of the largest residential transactions in Philadelphia real estate history. So popular were they among the building's buyers and others around Rittenhouse Square that people could not mention one without the other -- "Stephanie and Jill" were like, well, …
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It's every tag-sale shopper's fantasy: Buy a $10 painting at a garage sale or flea market because you like the frame, find an original copy of the Declaration of Independence behind the amateur artwork in front, then sell rare document for $1,000,000. Or in the case of a New York family this week, make that …
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Perhaps no category of architects generates more controversy that those who discarded the norms of their times and broke new ground. This week, the Richard Neutra-designed Cyclorama building at the Gettysburg National Military Park met the wrecking ball. The building, completed in 1963, a century after Pickett's Charge, the battle it depicted in 360-degree form, was …
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