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Best Cities for Finding Opportunity Where are the best cities to live in the United States if you want to work hard and get ahead?Forbes magazine examined the nation's 40 largest metropolitan statistical areas and based on the number of Forbes' 400 best big companies and 200 best small companies ...

  The  increase in home  sales is less than expected because poor appraisals are stalling transactions. Pending home sales indicated much stronger activity, but some contracts are falling through from faulty valuations that keep buyers from getting a loan."Total housing inventory at the end of Ma...

NAR: Existing-Home Sale Continue to Rise Sales of existing homes showed another gain in May, benefiting from favorable affordability conditions and a first-time buyer tax credit, according to the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS ®. May's increase was the first back-to-back monthly gain since Sept...

 A group of women from SCHNEIDER Real Estate are scheduled to assist in a Women's Build Habitat project in St. Peters on Wednesday June 24th.  The women are a few of many who are making a single mom's dream come true.  The SCHNEIDER Diva's will be helping to dry wall and Continental Title is prov...

Cort and Jesse Schneider, Realtors at Schneider Real Estate man the Funnel Cake Booth SCHNEIDER Real Estate agents, Cort Schneider, Glenn Miller, Judy Bateman, Karen Matthews, and Jesse Schneider along with office assistants Pat Hillin and Lori Linhoff, all pitched in to help at the annual St Pe...

Save Money, Eat Well and Reduce Stress With A Home Garden   When times are tough, people tend to look inward for sustenance and stability. Your backyard would be a good place to look also. Home gardening is the trend now, with gardeners hoping to save money and connect with their own personal wo...

            SCHNEIDER Real Estate has recently added 3 Agents with diverse experience to its residential sales team.  These Agents will broaden the firm's knowledge base in such areas as first-time home-buyer purchases, bank short sales, investment properties, rehabs, foreclosure prevention, and ...

This is great News for all those folks who haven't owned a home in the last three years! You can now get your $8,000 gift upfront if needed- Read the details! FHA-approved lenders received the go-ahead to develop bridge-loan products that enable first-time buyers to use the benefits of the federa...

WASHINGTON, June 02, 2009 Record low mortgage interest rates boosted pending home sales for the third consecutive month, with some benefit now from the first-time buyer tax credit, according to the National Association of Realtors®. The Pending Home Sales Index,1 a forward-looking indicator base...