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Click here to view your shopping cart or create a new account. Metro Brokers Financial offers competitive rates on a variety of mortgage products. Click here to prequalify! Search the largest database of Atlanta homes for sale 72,310 HOMES more than any other website! Database last updated Dec 29 2005 6:58AM Market Share Comps Metro Brokers/GMAC Real Estate grew its Atlanta real estate market share by one percent in 2004, while every other local residential realty company with at least 2,000 closings lost market share – one company by 15 percent. Over the last four years, Metro Brokers has increased its metro area market share by 3.4 percent – far better than any other local company. In fact, Atlanta’s other top 10 residential real estate companies experienced market share declines over that same period by an average of 23.5 percent. Metro Brokers did even better in specific real estate submarkets of Atlanta. The company saw double-digit market share gains in Butts, Cherokee, Coweta, Dawson, Douglas, East Cobb, Forsyth, Gilmer, Gwinnett, Henry, Intown Atlanta, Newton, North Fulton, Paulding, Rockdale, Walton and West Cobb. The company remains the Atlanta market share leader south of I-20, with nearly 1 out of every 4 homebuyers represented by a Metro Brokers sales associate. According to Metro Brokers President and CEO Kevin Levent, the primary reason for the company's market-leading growth is the increased productivity of its sales associates. "Our associates sold more homes in Atlanta than any other year in the history of our company," Levent said. "Our training programs are invigorating experienced real estate sales associates and helping new real estate licensees hit the ground running." Metro Brokers is also the largest license holder in the state of Georgia. The market share study was completed by Smart Numbers, an independent, Atlanta-based company that provides residential real estate information. Smart Numbers used closing data from MLS and FMLS to compile its report. Company News ATLANTA - Once again, the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association (HBA) has selected metrobrokers.com Best Realtor Website in the Atlanta area for the fourth consecutive year. MetroBrokers.com was chosen by HBA’s judges for its functionality, ease-of-use and overall design. The only organization recognizing Atlanta companies for excellence in website design, the HBA has been promoting, protecting and preserving homeownership in the greater area since its inception in 1945. HBA is an affiliate of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), headquartered in Washington, D.C. During the last year, Metro Brokers became the first local company to successfully launch an appointment setting tool that allows homebuyers to schedule a showing while viewing a listing online. As a result, Metro Brokers has generated more than 2,000 real estate showing requests – a figure that’s 30 percent higher than the national average of other metro realty companies. REALTORS RESPOND TO METRO BROKERS’ NEW BILLBOARDS Joyce Hay of the Gwinnett office: “Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! I love the billboards. My clients think the boards are cool, too. They say it’s better than any other billboard they’ve ever seen and that Metro Brokers is far and above any other company.” Salim Lokhandwalla of the Tucker office: “It’s very eye-catching. The locations are excellent especially the one on I-85 south. If my 11 year old daughter notices it, I’m sure others will too.“ Jamie Hook of the East Cobb office: “It’s really impressive, especially when you have clients in the car and drive by it.” Radley Reiff of the Buckhead office: “I love it. I think it’s great for brand recognition…A perfect ‘10’.” Serrie Fields of the Stone Mountain office: “The billboard can’t be beat. It’s bold, easy to read in traffic and very visible. It makes our name well known in the community and reinforces our large market presence. I envision the billboards helping me on listing presentations when I mention them to customers.” Bo Krejci of the North Fulton office: “I think the billboard is great. It really pops out at you when you drive down GA-400. I can only imagine the impact on morning commuters as the traffic crawls by the billboard.” Real Estate Atlanta, Georgia

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PMMS RSS Feed Historical PMMS Data Historical monthly PMMS data tables are available for each type of product in both HTML and Excel formats: 30-Year Fixed-Rate Historic Tables [ HTML ] [ Excel ] 15-Year Fixed-Rate Historic Tables [ HTML ] [ Excel ] 5-Year Adjustable-Rate Historic Tables [ HTML ] [ Excel ] 1-Year Adjustable-Rate Historic Tables [ HTML ] [ Excel ] Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey 2005 Weekly Mortgage Rates Data (Excel 5.0/Win95 workbook) Compilation of Weekly Survey Releases for 2005 December 29, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 6.22% 5.76% 5.79% 5.15% Fees & Points: 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.7 December 22, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 6.26% 5.79% 5.82% 5.22% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 December 15, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 6.30% 5.85% 5.77% 5.15% Fees & Points: 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 December 8, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 6.32% 5.87% 5.78% 5.16% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.8 December 1, 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Points: 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.7 August 4, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.82% 5.38% 5.30% 4.47% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 July 28, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.77% 5.34% 5.27% 4.46% Fees & Points: 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.7 July 21, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.73% 5.32% 5.26% 4.42% Fees & Points: 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.6 July 14, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.66% 5.25% 5.15% 4.39% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 July 7, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.62% 5.20% 5.19% 4.33% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.7 June 30, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.53% 5.12% 5.06% 4.24% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.7 June 23, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.57% 5.16% 5.05% 4.23% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.7 June 16, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.63% 5.22% 5.10% 4.25% Fees & Points: 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.6 June 9, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.56% 5.14% 5.01% 4.21% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.6 June 2, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.62% 5.20% 5.10% 4.26% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.6 May 26, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.65% 5.21% 5.07% 4.21% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.7 May 19, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.71% 5.27% 5.07% 4.26% Fees & Points: 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 May 12, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.77% 5.33% 5.21% 4.23% Fees & Points: 0.5 0.6 0.6 0.6 May 5, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.75% 5.31% 5.16% 4.22% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.7 April 28, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.78% 5.33% 5.20% 4.21% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.6 April 21, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.80% 5.36% 5.22% 4.26% Fees & Points: 0.5 0.5 0.6 0.6 April 14, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.91% 5.46% 5.31% 4.30% Fees & Points: 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.6 April 7, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.93% 5.48% 5.33% 4.23% Fees & Points: 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 March 31, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 6.04% 5.58% 5.43% 4.33% Fees & Points: 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 March 24, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 6.01% 5.56% 5.35% 4.24% Fees & Points: 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 March 17, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.95% 5.47% 5.31% 4.20% Fees & Points: 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 March 10, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.85% 5.38% 5.22% 4.24% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.7 March 3, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.79% 5.33% 5.17% 4.14% Fees & Points: 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.8 February 24, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.69% 5.22% 5.05% 4.16% Fees & Points: 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 February 17, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.62% 5.14% 5.05% 4.15% Fees & Points: 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 February 10, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.57% 5.10% 4.99% 4.11% Fees & Points: 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.8 February 3, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.63% 5.14% 5.00% 4.23% Fees & Points: 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.7 January 27, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.66% 5.14% 5.02% 4.18% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.6 January 20, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.67% 5.15% 5.05% 4.11% Fees & Points: 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.7 January 13, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.74% 5.19% 5.05% 4.10% Fees & Points: 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.6 January 6, 2005 30-yr 15-yr 5/1-yr ARM 1-yr ARM Average Rates: 5.77% 5.21% 5.03% 4.10% Fees & Points: 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.7 © 2005 Freddie Mac Doing Business With Freddie Mac Single-Family Multifamily Debt Securities Mortgage Securities Vendors and Suppliers About Freddie Mac About Us Public Policy News and Information Investor Relations Careers Buying and Owning a Home Preparing for Homeownership All About Mortgages Purchasing a Home Owning and Keeping a Home 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Understanding the Land Loan How to Make Your Business Card Call for Action No matter how many wonderful services you offer, if your card brands you as unprofessional, you stand to loose potential customers. This article shows you how to make business cards that are not only informative but also effective. Click here for more... Pehrson Web | SheLovesGod | Books | Music | Romance Novels | Work@Home | Quality Cooking Tools | LocateACoach | MarniePehrson.com Gift the Gift of Romance this Christmas with a CleanRomanceClub Gift Certificate! Click here for details. Login - Signup - Contribute - Use Content - FAQ - Search - EzineBuilder - Advertise With Us New Articles - Publication Directory - About - Writers Update - Home - Connect Your Accounts Check Out These Great Articles! 51 Online Marketing Techniques To Improve Your Websites Success 6 Simple Ways to Determine Which Marketing Ideas Are Best for Your Business Accounting Police: Do They Exist? 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Eight Mistakes to Avoid When Naming a New Bus... Are Your Internet Marketing Efforts Escaping ... Click here for more Subscribe for Free 1ChapterFree Business Channel Home Business Home/Family Channel Marketing Channel Personal Development Good News SheLovesGod Bible Study SheLovesGod Inspiration Tech Update ThoughtsAlive BelieversAtWork Writers Ezine Enter email: First name: In a real estate broker business, almost every thing revolves around land. Obviously it is hard to run a business centered around land without knowing where to acquire prime land and how to finance the land. Lets take some time to familiarize ourselves with some of the key terms that drive the real estate broker industry. A good broker business often times will acquire land through land auctions and then finance these acquisitions with a land loan or a land contract . To learn how this all fits together lets suppose you are interested in investing in some real estate and developing your own little broker business to generate some extra income. Before you can really do anything in your business, you must first acquire some real estate. Now you might sift through the local papers and real estate guides looking for that ideal piece that fits all your requirements. This method could take quite some time as it is hard to come by really good deals in this manner. On the other hand, perhaps a friend mentioned in passing how he built his first house on a piece of property he purchased at a land auction and got a great deal on. Your friend may be on to something here. Have you ever thought about checking out a land auction? If you have not been to a land auction now is the time to go check one out in your area. Thanks to the great format of auctions, the land you are bidding on will start at a relatively low bid price and the land auction will proceed just like a normal auction. Often there will not be much competition for land and you will be able to purchase a great piece of land from the land auction. After you have got your piece of property from the land auction you must find a way to finance it. This is where the land loan comes in. A land loan is exactly what it sounds like a loan for a piece of land. The land loan will be secured by the real estate that it pays for and you will be able to get a loan for the amount of the sale price of the real estate property. Your lender will likely dictate some terms as to what can be done with the land to ensure the value of the land remains intact and the land loan balance can be paid off. If you are into rentals then you might consider building a house or two on this property, depending on the size of the property you won in the land auction. Once your land loan is secure and you have built the houses and landscaped the property then your energies must turn to making this acquisition profitable to you. Hopefully you have added value to the land and can sell the property at a profit. This will create a nice little return on the project and allow you to focus your efforts on the next project. On the other hand you might consider exiting the property by selling the land and closing on a land contract with the buyer. A land contract insinuates that you are essentially financing the purchase for the buyer. Thus, when a buyer signs a land contract he is agreeing to submit monthly payments to you directly at the agreed upon terms. In turn you will pocket some of the money and turn the rest over to the bank that issued you the land loan. By using a land contract you can help somebody who has bad credit purchase the land and charge them a premium on that agreement so that you are making money on top of money. That is to say you are making interest on top of the net profit you got with the sale of the property. Adam Smith is an internet marketer for 10X Marketing. You can learn more about the real estate market and depreciation from OneMinuteMillionaire.com Keywords: land loan, land contract About the Author Adam Smith, adam10xmarketing@gmail.com More Details about land loan here.Adam Smith is an client account specialist with http://www.10xMarketing.com - More Visitors. More Buyers. More Revenue. This article has been viewed 43 time(s). Check Out Our Content Channel Categories Career/Business Marnie Pehrson Computers/Tech Beth Sunny Corporate Rhoberta Shaler Current Events Lee Schaeffer Holiday/Parties Kimberly Lainson Home Business Stone Evans Home/Family Mia Cronan Marketing/PR Marnie Pehrson Money Matters Bob Robertson Personal Develop . 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Man wins suit to sell house occupied by sect Man wins suit to sell house occupied by sect He's been trying to sell the $1.8m house since he left sect and moved out but sect members occupying it claimed they had right to live there The Straits Times/August 17, 2004 By Elena Chong A former Singapore Airlines pilot yesterday won a court order to sell a $1.8 million house in Sembawang, in which several members of religious sect House of Israel have been staying. Mr Steven Joshua, 56, who co-owns the 792.8 sq m place with four others, had sued former wife Deborah Steven Joshua, 55; his sister, Madam Rachel Jacob, 50; and three other couples staying there. He has been trying to sell the place since he left the group in 2001 and moved out. However, the sect members claimed there was a property covenant that entitled them to live there. They now have up to mid-November to move out of the Sembawang Place bungalow. Mr Joshua had also sued another sister, Mrs Rebekah Isaac, 47, and her husband, Mr Isaac Benjamin, 49, who left the group in 1993. They did not contest the suit as they too wanted to sell the property. They will be given a 20 per cent share of the proceeds of the sale. Mr Joshua, his ex-wife, his two sisters and Mr Benjamin bought the house for $700,000 in 1986 and registered it in their names. At the time, they belonged to the religious group, which hit the headlines nine years ago when three of its members lost a libel suit against The Straits Times for describing it as a 'sect'. Yesterday, Justice Tan Lee Meng threw out the defendants' counterclaim, saying they had not proven their case. The net proceeds of the sale of the Sembawang home have to be distributed among the co-owners, said the judge, with Mr Benjamin and his wife getting 20 per cent and the other three - Mr Joshua, his ex-wife and Madam Jacob - sharing the remainder according to the proportion they paid for the property. Mr Joshua, who also won on costs, was represented by Mr James Ponniah. Mr Daniel John acted for all the defendants except Mr Benjamin and his wife. To see more documents/articles regarding this group/organization/subject click here . Home Database Cult News Search Getting Help Forum Mind Control Legal Contact Us About Us What's New Headlines Links Books Help RRI FAQ