 Real Estate Purchase and Sale Links
American Real Estate Exchange Network
Real
Estate ABC - Real estate and mortgage consumer guide listing the top ten most
visited real estate websites.
Better
Homes and Gardens Real Estate Service
- Find a home, buying and selling a home,
finding a neighborhood and home financing.
Realtor.com
- The official site of the National Association of Realtors.
Home Popular
- Real estate listings, news and articles for homebuyers.
!Yahoo Real
Estate
- Information on finding a real estate agent, buying, selling,
financing, moving, and improving your home.
HUD (Housing and Urban
Development) - Information on purchasing a HUD home and interesting
articles for all types of homebuyers.
LawInfo - OnLine resource for
Attorneys.
eBbay Residential Listings
- Listings for land (both improved and for raw land, residential and commercial properties.
RealtyTrac - Tricky to track
real estate.
Commercial & Residential Real Estate Listings (United States
only)
- Property listings by state and Community.
Trade Organizations
Associated General
Contractors (AGC) of America
- The nation's largest and oldest construction trade association.
Legislative and industry news.
American Land Title
Association (ALTA) - The national trade association and voice of the abstract and title
insurance industry. ALTA members search, review and insure land
titles to protect home buyers and mortgage lenders who invest in
real estate.
National
Association of Home Builders (NAHB) - Official site of the NAHB, containing information on the National
Council of the Housing Industry, the Home Builder's Institute and
housing finance information.
American
Congress of Surveying and Mapping (ACSM)
- Information and links to ALTA/ACSM standards for land title
surveys including minimum standard detail requirements.
Codes, Laws and Governmental Affairs
Government Printing Office
- Good source for free information from government publications.
Key word searches permitted of the U.S. Code, the Code of Federal
Regulations, the Federal Register and many other important
documents.
Southern Building Code Conference
International (SBCCI)
- Technical, educational and administrative support to
governmental departments and agencies engaged in codes
administration and enforcement including information on building
design and the construction industry.
US
Code - Cornell University's Legal Information Institute site contains a
searchable, full-text version of the US Code including regulations
concerning public lands.
Municipal Code
Corporation
- Text files of building codes for forty states by county available
online, other states available for purchase.
Building
Officials & Code Administrators Int'l (BOCAI)
- State-wide building codes, international mechanical and property
management codes available for purchase.
International
Code Council
- News on code issues across the country including pending
legislation, government relations.
International
Conference of Building Officials (ICBO)
- Industry chat, news and public hearing results.
THOMAS: Congress on
the Internet
- The Library of Congress; Fully searchable
online reference of all legislation before the US Congress.
US Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- Official HUD site including program information and articles.
Resources
NAHB Research Center
- Advancing technology in housing including information on
builder's programs, market data, residential building material usage
and National Housing Quality Award certification.
construction.com
- The construction industry marketplace. Includes construction
projects, companies, products, equipment, news, jobs and trends.
Includes a featured project and articles on what's happening in the
construction industry.
Thomas Regional Industrial Directory
- Free searchable database of more than 550,000
distributors, manufacturers and service companies.
Amazon.com Tools & Hardware
- Great resource for information on tools, hardware and equipment.
Extensive product reviews, manufacturer's information and books for
the professional builder.
!Yahoo Tools & Machinery
- Yahoo's extensive reference for tools and machinery. Listings by
category of use or company name.
U. S. Government Contracts and Information
Federal
Government Servers Directory - Comprehensive list of links to federal website servers.
State
Government Servers Directory
- Bountiful resource for state government info including
agencies, officials, state and municipal codes.
Bureau of Labor
Statistics
- Official site contains information referred to in real estate
contracts including the latest consumer price index, producer price
index and valuable economic data.
State Property Law Statutes
- From Cornell University's Legal Information Institute (LII)
providing links to full text copies of property law statutes for the
fifty states and D.C. including information on corporations,
financial institutions, uniform commercial code and water codes.
Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- Information on loan sales, real estate sales, historical sales
and information on banking.
FDIC Quarterly Regional Outlook
- FDIC quarterly survey of real estate trends, economic and banking
activities for each of the eight FDIC regions plus a national
summary.
Small
Business Administration (SBA)
- Huge online library with articles on statutes and
regulations, services, programs and property for sale.
Global Land Information System
- US Geological Service; surveys, photos and climate,
elevation, geologic, hydrologic, land use and soils data.
EPA's
EnviroFacts Warehouse
- EPA's environmental databases searchable for data on superfund
sites, safe drinking water, toxic release information and
environmental regulations. Searchable by state, county,
municipality or street address and ZIP code. Includes maps.
FEMA's Map
Service Center
- View map data and ordering information for Flood Insurance Rate
Maps. Includes online reference library.
Federal Judiciary & Court Records Information
Federal Courts Directory
- Links to federal courts sorted by state or circuit. Free online Public
Access to Court Electronic Records available including bankruptcy
records.
Emory
Law Library Federal Courts Finder
- Online Library offering access to all federal
appellate (Supreme Court and federal circuits). Cases available
online. Maps indicate the federal circuits for easy reference.
Real Estate Resources
Appraisal Institute
- Appraiser qualifications, methods and standards.
Realtor.com
- Official site of the National Association of Realtors.
Information for homebuyers, real estate news, lender info and locate
a realtor/lender services.
Nar.realtor.com
- The NAR website for real estate professionals including news on
government affairs and the housing market.
Real Estate
Investment Advisory Council (REIAC)
- National non-profit trade association providing an open forum for
the exchange of ideas, concerns and experiences between people who
conduct commercial real estate transactions. Valuable lists of trade
associations, government departments and industry news.
Inrealty.com
- Investment information for real estate professionals including
stocks, research, mortgage information and bookstore.
Law
American Bar
Association
- The American Bar Association includes links to
ABA publications, discussion groups and law-related websites.
ABA's Real Property, Probate & Trust Law
- ABA newsletter contains valuable lists; "New Website," of
interest in real estate law.
Florida
Law Online - Every imaginable Florida legal resource.
Florida
Secured Transaction Registry - Uniform Commercial Code filings.
Law.com - Complete legal news on the Internet, links to sites of regional
interest, seminars, and job postings.
Research Resources
Law
Lists
- Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law
Online lists of U. S., foreign government and international
organizations.
555-1212.com
- Free background search information on the web. Find people,
businesses, phone numbers, addresses and e-mail addresses. Includes
some mobile and wireless
phone data.
RealtyLocator
- Realty Times locates real estate industry professionals.
Public Records on
the Web
- Offered by Information America. Searches are free or of nominal
cost. Perform background investigations, locate information on
transactional due diligence, lien and litigation searches, real
estate ownership and tax information.
Social Security Death Index
- Social security death index locates individuals
listed by the Social Security Administration from ancestry.com.
Jeff Flax
Homepage
- Legal resources and some fun essential for all lawyers using the Internet.
Internet
Tools for Lawyers
- How to conduct legal research on the Web. Valuable resource for
current information on legal issues.
FEMA
National Flood Insurance Program Data
- State-by-state list of insurers participating in the National
Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) including the NFIP's community status
book from FEMA.
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