<< Return to Real Estate New main menu Washington Post Realty News Centuries of Drama at Halcyon House In Greek mythology, a halcyon was a bird said to calm rough seas. "It also means peaceful and prosperous," real estate agent Hugh Oates said. The Luck of the Landlords The slumping housing market hit Teresa Walsh hard. Seeking a better life for her two daughters, Walsh put her house in Menlo Park, Calif., on the market and moved to Bethesda. Neighbors, Boats, Bayfront Summers And a Reverence For Tradition Owings Beach is still cozy. There are still snug cottages, built in the 1920s for summer getaways to the bayside enclave in the Deale portion of southern Anne Arundel County. Narrow streets bearing local family names are still walkable because deep ditches and tight turns discourage traffic. Even... Mailbag: Retiring Mortgages, Staging Homes and Trying Short Sales Useful advice, along with the occasional touch of real estate agent defensiveness, came in through the mailbag this summer. Here's an edited sample. Restoring Schools to the Havens They Should Be As Labor Day marks the end of summer and beginning of another school year, citizens presume that teachers are ready, but they may wonder if school buildings are, too. So Tight-Knit, It's Okay to Make the Neighbor's Place Smell . . . Like Turkey After many years living in Georgetown and Columbia Heights, Lynda Couvillion and Michael Seidman were certified city dwellers, accustomed to close-in living. A New Way to Tap Home Equity Improbable as it sounds at a time when U.S. homeowners have lost billions of dollars in equity, an industry is taking shape to help them tap portions of their equity wealth without incurring traditional mortgage debt or making interest payments. When Cutting the Price, Take a Big Bite, Not a Bunch of Nibbles Cutting the price to get your home sold isn't quite as simple as it seems. Fill out the form below to subscribe to my monthly newsletter....It's real estate news you can use!  Subscribe First Name: E-Mail: Last Name: Zip: Michael Kabis Finding the Keys to Your Real Estate Dreams Telephone 888.702.9172 Mobile 763.257.9249 Contact Michael

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