Category: Real Estate

bookmark_borderWonderful Victorian Home For Sale in Fort Washington

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jane Douglass, REALTOR, with Prudential Fox and Roach in Blue Bell PA
presents a c.1906 Victorian home for sale in Fort Washington PA.

Welcome to this meticulously maintained C 1906 colonial revival with a Victorian flavor built by Charles B. Camburn featuring a Queen Anne wrap style around porch entry, situated on one of the most desirable streets in Fort Washington. This wonderful bright sunny home offers a large living room accented with wood floors & built in cabinets, formal dining room & built in windowed China cabinet; eat in kitchen with wood cabinets, entry to the back porch & views of the gardens & its traditional old fashio flora. There are five bedrooms, 2 baths, a second flr sun room, wood floors, elaborate wood trim, high ceilings. Basement, 2 car detached garage. Possible in-law suite. “Sunny, warm, spacious & comfortable is a good description of this charming home.” Convenient to the train & PA Turnpike.

Ms. Douglass is a 25+ year Marketing Veteran of Luxury Estates, Manor Homes, & Classic Pennsylvania Farm Houses in Southeastern PA.

She specializes in the Philadelphia Area the includes Montgomery County, & Bucks County PA.

She is also a member of The Historic Real Estate Program of the National Trust For Historic Preservation.

Jane offers the professional experience, confidence, & heartfelt concern needed to meet the needs of home sellers, purchasers, & transferees.

If you need an extraordinary Realtor to find an outstanding property for you, please Contact Jane Douglass at (215)542-2200.

bookmark_borderLocal CENTURY 21 office receives top awards

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CENTURY 21 Absolute Realty Wins Multiple Awards in 2009

CENTURY 21 Absolute Realty, with offices in Springfield, Ridley Park and West Chester, PA, received Top Awards from CENTURY 21 Corporation for 2009

* Top 20 In Gross Closed Commissions & Units – Springfield office
* Top 20 In Gross Closed Commissions & Units – Ridley Park office
* CENTURY 21 Gold Medallion Award, Springfield office
* CENTURY 21 Quality Service Award, Springfield office
* Ranked in the Top 10 Companies in the Pennsylvania Region in Gross Closed Commissions

The Broker Owners of CENTURY 21 Absolute Realty are Stan Lesniak, Dave Stinson, Ray McKinney & Vance Coulston.

CENTURY 21 Absolute Realty Recognized their top producing agents for 2009 at an Awards Breakfast on January 30, 2010 at the Springfield Country Club in Springfield. Congratulations to all the Award Winners!

For real estate career info, contact
Linda Johnson, H/R Director/REALTOR
CENTURY 21 Absolute Realty

bookmark_borderSome homebuyers confused by closing-cost rules

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The Intelligencer.com, by David W. Myers

A new law limits the amount that home buyers can be charged for the expenses involved in getting a loan, but some prospective borrowers don’t know how the complicated guidelines work.

Dear Mr. Meyers: We agreed to buy a house, and our lender provided a statement showing our loan’s estimated closing costs. The estimate for the cost of a title search and title insurance policy from a company recommended by the lender totaled $1,127, but we decided to use a differnet company because we thought it would save us money. When the deal closed last week, the final settlement statement showed that the company we chose charged us $1,640 for its services – more than 40 percent over the bank’s estimates. Isn’t the illegal, because the new law that you wrote about a few months ago says that the actual closing costs cannot be higher than 10 percent of the lender’s original estiamtes?

ANSWER: I’m afraid that you misread that earlier column.

Under a new federal law that took effect Jan. 1, all lenders are now required to provide prospective borrowers with a standardized, three-page “good faith estimate” of their closing costs. The law essentially divides these costs into three seperate categories: Those that cannot change from the bank’s estimates, those that can rise by as much as 10 percent, and those that can change without limit.

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