Single-family home prices rise for 2nd month in a row

Single-family home prices in the U.S. went up for a second month in June, and may show the three-year housing decline is showing signs of recovery.

Read the full story by clicking the link below:

http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSTRE57O31Y20090825

GFC-CMLS and Listingbook host Special Event

Be Bold, Get Your Listings Sold; Get Buyers from Kicking Tires!

450 Agents have Registered, Have You?

Greater Fairfield County CMLS and Listingbook are hosting a special anniversary event and you need to be there!
Nationally renowned motivational speaker JOE MEYER, along with Listingbook, will surely excite, motivate and encourage you in this special, one-time event!
REALTORS® who have seen Mr. Meyers in action describe him as energetic, passionate, informative, creative, humorous and very innovative!
Learn the secrets and core techniques to:

• Managing and Controlling your Listing Inventory

• Aggressive Marketing Methods sure to get your Listings Noticed and priced Right

• How to Work with and SELL more Listings to more Buyers

• How to obtain, work with and sell more buyers

You’re invited to join us for this free event. Don’t miss this special opportunity, click here to register.

August 6, 2009
Westport Country Playhouse
25 Powers Ct.Westport, CT
Registration & breakfast at 9:00 am
Presentation at 9:30am – 12:00pm

Sales rise 11% for New Homes in June

Sales rise 11% for newly-built homes in June, and it's the 3rd month in a row showing a boost in sales.

Check out the full story from the link below:


http://tiny.cc/GctpX

Power Outage June 27th 2009

This Saturday June 27, 2009, Connecticut Light & Power has to shut down power to the entire building in which the Greater Fairfield County CMLS office is located. In order to minimize the disruption, CL&P expects the shutdown to begin around 1:00am and last for about six hours, hopefully our systems should be available again by 7-8:00am. This is an estimate however, and it is possible it could be a little longer. During this time, RE/Xplorer, PC Access our “ftp” server and all data export activity will be completely shut down and inaccessible.You will still be able to use Listingbook or Paragon, which are housed out of state and will not be affected by our power being down. As always, there will be no listing input or modification functionality in Paragon, but you will still be able to run searches and hotsheets, create a CMA, etc . Additionally, because both our telephone system and the GFC CMLS website (http://www.ct-mls.com/) will also be inaccessible during the power outage you will not be able to access Paragon or Listingbook through our website. However you can access Paragon by entering http://cmls.fnismls.com/ or Listingbook by entering http://www.listingbook.com/ in your Internet Explorer address bar. As usual our technical support group will be available for assistance in using Listingbook or Paragon both Thursday and Friday, however, they will not be available during the power outage. Training guides are available in the Support section of the GFC CMLS website, under the Paragon and Listingbook reference sections. Additionally both Paragon and Listingbook have excellent built in help systems.GFC CMLS staff will be in the office to assist you by phone during our regular Saturday hours from 9am-2pm. Please note: the SUPRA keybox system will not be affected by the power outage. We apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your patience and understanding. We are doing everything in our capacity to make sure the effects of this downtime are as minimal as possible.

July 4th Fireworks Displays

The July 4th weekend is almost here, and if you're on the look-out for where firework displays will be this time around, here are 14 locations where you can check them out:

http://www.fairfieldcountyonline.com/articles/228/

Summer events in Connecticut

It's almost summer, and there are many events happening around Connecticut.

Through Labor Day, you can see the Hisss-terical Reptile show at the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, in July there is the 30th Annual Sailfest & Fireworks Extravaganza in New London, and in August there's the SoNo Arts Celebration in Norwalk.

There are many others to check out, click the link below for more information:

http://www.ctvisit.com/PressRelease.aspx?pressreleaseid=20046

Allowing Tax Credit to be used as a Down Payment

The FHA (Federal Housing Administration) will allow it's lenders to let homeowners use an $8,000 tax credit as a down payment.

Read the details in the story by clicking the link below:

http://ecorealty.blogspot.com/2009/05/fha-to-allow-8k-tax-credit-as-down.html