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Real estate Q&A: With retirement in full view, try to avoid refinancing

QUESTION: I have five years left until I pay off my 30-year mortgage. I received an offer to refinance, which certainly is tempting, but I'm getting pretty close to retirement. Should I lighten my burden now or try to hold on for five more years?
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Once-reviled flippers could help heal some housing markets

Home flippers got a bad name during the housing boom. They sold properties for big profits in days or weeks, and the rapid price appreciation created a frenzy that led to the eventual bust.
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Myrtle Beach area Realtors donate a day to charities

Dozens of Keller Williams associates in Myrtle Beach and Murrells Inlet took time out Thursday to help in their communities.
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B&C sells more than 10,000 inland acres

Burroughs & Chapin Co. Inc. has sold more than 10,000 acres since the first of the year, all but 116 acres of it to an Atlanta-based investment company.
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Real Estate Pulse for Myrtle Beach area: May 11

Kristin Owens of Coldwell Banker Chicora Surfside Beach has been awarded the Coastal Carolinas Association of Realtors Image Award.
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Myrtle Beach foreclosure rate near top of nation’s metro areas

Myrtle Beach had the nation’s eighth highest foreclosure rate among all U.S. metro areas in April, according to RealtyTrac, a ranking that has surprised but not dismayed some watchers of local real estate.
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The Mortgage Professor: Borrowers should try to limit risk factors

Why did Jones pay more for her mortgage than Smith? One possible reason is that her mortgage had features that increase risk to the lender, which charged a higher price to compensate. I call these "risk factors." Potential borrowers ought to know what they are, how much of a rate penalty they will...
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80 trips to find the perfect house

Eighty houses.
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Sandy damage forces some homeowners to sell 'as is'

BEACH HAVEN WEST, N.J. - The full consequences of Hurricane Sandy will be played out in a thousand personal decisions, and for families like the Wosceks, owners of a tiny yellow bungalow on a lagoon, that meant one thing:
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Builders struggle to find enough construction workers

The real estate bust idled hundreds of thousands of construction workers. Now, with housing on the mend, builders are hiring again.