What is a Personal URL (PURL)?


One of the very best ways to get the attention of current and prospective clients attention and create a great impression of your company is to use a personal URL. A personalized URL (also called a PURL) is a URL which includes the name of the customer which you can send them. There are many benefits to be gained by using PURLs.

State revokes broker’s license (Pioneer Press)


The state Commerce Department on Friday revoked an Oak Park Heights man’s real estate broker license and barred him from originating residential mortgages in connection with an ongoing investigation of what it believes is the state’s largest mortgage fraud scheme.

A Heck Of A Deal In Florida


The St Petersburg Times reports from Florida. “Tampa Electric lost more customers than it added in the third quarter, an unprecedented reversal that slashed the utility’s profits and promises to delay power plant building. ‘We’ve never seen this since I’ve been working at Tampa Electric,’ said Gordon Gillette, who has been with the company for 26 years. Vacant and foreclosed homes turned out the lights, and fewer new customers replaced them, Gillette said.” “‘A lot that got built, as we know n

Priciest Real Estate in Town: $400k for Two Seats


[Photo: Tom Kaminski/WCBS 880] Yankee Stadium, Citi Field—let’s forget about those new inner-city stadia with their paltry 50,000+ capacities. Instead, let’s head across the Hudson to fabulous East Rutherford where, by the looks of this new WCBS 880 photo gallery, the massive new Giants Stadium (seats 82,500) is chugging along in advance of its 2010 opening. Hey, speaking of the new Giants Stadium, the Jets recently auctioned off the personal seat licenses—the cost paid for the right to buy

Real estate sales remain slow in Rappahannock County, but there’s an uptrend in foreclosures


By James P. Gannon Real estate sales in Rappahannock County continued at a sluggish pace in this year’s spring quarter, with the number of sales down about 40% from a year-earlier, a tally of recorded property-transfers shows. But in a sign of the times, one portion of the market is picking up: Foreclosure sales. According to county land transfer records, there have been nine foreclosures in the county so far this year, up from just three at this point in 2007. Rappahannock’s real estate mar

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