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Welcome to our new Real Estate section where you'll find helpful information, tools and advice that can assist you with all things real estate, mortgage and moving. Advice from industry experts will help as you plan for the purchase or sale of homes, search for the right mortgage, choose a moving company, or even plan for an international relocation.

Mortgage, Insurance, & Finance

• Some Mortgage Basics
• Understanding the Basics of Your Credit Score Can Help you Score the Best Mortgage
• 4 Quick Tips to Improve your Credit Score Today
• How to ensure good insurance
• New cash idea for homeowners
• Simple ways to raise your credit score
• Why you should (and shouldn't) pay off your mortgage
• How to bypass the bank and get a loan

Working with Professional Moving Companies

• Choosing the Best Moving Company for your Move
• Five Important Things to Tell Movers
• Interviewing Professional Moving Companies

Moving Advice from the Experts

• Understanding Your Move Estimate
• Understanding Your Moving Valuation
• Handling high value items
• Understanding the relationship between move weight and your moving costs
• How to Handle Your Moving Day
• The Moving Claim Process

Real Estate & Related Trends

• Adjusting to a Buyer's Market
• Selling your Home in a Slower Market
• McMansions migrate from 'burb to city
• Boomers start to downsize
• A land squeeze in America's Chinatowns
• Incredible shrinking houses
• Let the home auction bidder beware
• No end in sight for housing slump
• One path to affordable housing

Moving Internationally

• Learning the Language of your New Country
• Making an International Move
• Investment propels a real estate boom for Panama
• Real estate investors find solid gains overseas
• The other half of the immigration equation

Etcetera

• Preventing Mold in Your Storage Space
• How to choose the realtor that is right for you
• In housing downturn, a new uncertainty factor
• Amid recession jitters, world's financial system vulnerable
• Dollar, oil prices hint of inflation
• Energy costs this winter: high
• A loophole could dim impact in proposed energy-saving bill
• States' coffers are feeling a pinch

Auto Transport

• A Q&A on Common Auto Transport Questions
• The Best Way to Find an Auto Shipper
• Get Your Car Ready for Its Big Move