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Selling New York Season Two Debuts This Week

Real estate watchers get ready, the second season of HGTV's hit TV show, Selling New York, premieres this Thursday, January 6 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. This season will continue to follow the fast-talking, fast-dealing brokers from CORE, as they navigate high-powered world of buying and selling luxury Manhattan homes. The series' second season features the agents' ongoing efforts to keep sales moving, despite jaded buyers and intense competition in the challenging New York City market. This season has CORE using some unique tactics to sell these luxury properties including inviting an interior designer to project 3-D renderings in each room of a Gramercy Penthouse to show the space's potential and tapping into the artistic community of DUMBO in Brooklyn in order to sell a local penthouse. "Selling New York really captures the hard work and integrity of our agents," notes CORE CEO Shaun Osher. "Season Two will offer viewers not only a glimpse into more spectacular homes, but provides insight into some of the marketing strategies that we employ to close a deal."

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HGTV's 2011 Dream Home Is A Vermont Ski Hideaway

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HGTV has announced its 2011 HGTV Dream Home, a modern rustic mountain retreat in Stowe, Vermont. The home is part of a $2 million grand-prize package that includes a 2011 GMC Acadia Denali and $500,000 cash. The prize will be awarded in March, 2011 and you can enter once per day on HGTV.com as well as once per day on HGTV's Frontdoor.com or as often you want through regular mail from now through February 18.

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All Modern.com HGTV's John Gidding Challenge You to Unleash Your Chic Side

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Filed under: Decor, Celebrity Design

AllModern.com and John Gidding, from the HGTV show Curb Appeal: The Block, are on the lookout for a living room to transform. The Unleash Your Chic Side Challenge will take the poor, huddled loungers and end tables that you've been hoping to relocate to the center of the Earth and replace them with the kinds of modern, millennial pieces that live on the other sides of storefront windows.

The grand prize is a $25,000 makeover featuring decor from Gus Modern, Herman Miller, Missoni Home, Blomus, ET2 Lighting and Inhabit, with John Gidding personally designing the reappointment. Second place is $2,000 in "modern accents and accessories," and third place is half again the same. Just for entering, however, you get 10% off your next AllModern.com purchase.

This is the hard part – or not, depending on the state of your living room: head over to www.allmodern.com/chic and tell the most gripping-yet-brief tale you can about how a modern update to your living room will help you unleash your chic side. Virtual operators are standing by to take your submissions until February 15th, 2011. And if you win, have us over for tea, please...

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HGTV To Give Away New Mexico Dream Home

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The HGTV dream home giveaway for 2010 has begun. This year's dream home is located in Sandia Park, New Mexico. The 3,900 square foot home is a contemporary adobe style house with views of the mountains. It has three bedrooms, a home office, home theater and a small guest house. It is also solar powered. In the 14 years of the contest this is the first time that the dream house has been built in New Mexico. The HGTV website includes videos, photo galleries and virtual tours.

The HGTV Dream Home 2010 Giveaway grand prize package is worth more than $2 million and includes not just the home but also $500,000 in cash, a 2010 GMC Terrain, high-end appliances and the HGTV Dream Play Home. The contest runs until February 19 and you can enter online once per day as long as you are a U.S. resident over 21 years of age or send in as many snail mail entries as you like. The winner will be announced on March 15 during a special program on HGTV.

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New HGTV Show Pays Cash For Home Improvement

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These days when even the millionaires don't feel rich, is a $250,000 prize enough incentive for a reality show? It can be if you are facing foreclosure. HGTV's latest show the $250,000 Challenge" offers a smaller prize than many reality shows but you don't have eat any insects to win. The show pits five families in the same neighborhood against each other to compete in a series of home improvement and design challenges. The families who do the best work move on to the next challenge and toward the ultimate goal of earning a newly renovated home and a $250,000 cash prize.

A woman in Sherman Oaks, California, Kelley Alexander, is participating with the hopes of avoiding foreclosure. As a Chicago Tribune article reports, if she loses, she could also lose her home. While other shows in the past have focused on fixing up a house to sell it for more money this show represents an economic shift where most people are renovating with plans to stay in their homes for the long haul. If you have to do it yourself, you may as well get paid for it. The show is hosted by Drew Lachey and starts May 31.

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The 2009 HGTV Dream Home

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Filed under: Real Estate Developments

HGTV has announced their latest dream home, a Victorian-style home in Sonoma, California. The $2 million prize package also includes a 2009 GMC Acadia. The contest starts on January 1 and runs until February 19. Entrants may enter once per day on HGTV.com or as often as they wish by regular mail. This home marks the first time in 13 years the HGTV Dream Home has been in California. The home is being built by vintner and developer Steve Ledson and is part of his Armstrong Estates project (we previously covered one of his homes as an estate of the day). The HGTV website features video and details on every aspect of the home. I expect the competition will be fierce for this one, but be warned the taxes can be hign on these dream homes as one past winner found out.

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HGTV Dream Home 2006

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This year's HGTV Dream Home is is more understated than luxurious. The AP reports that for the 10th edition of the Dream Home giveaway, Home and Garden Television created a 5,700-square-foot home in the Blue Ridge foothills overlooking Lake Lure in North Carolina. The home has porches to take advantage of the mountain views and is designed so that the home's owners can live in one wing and guests stay on the other side. Other details include a game room, crafts room, wine cellar and exercise room. If you like the location you can build your own home at Grey Rock in the Lake Lure community which is a collection of over 900 homesites. Pictures of the HGTV home are available on their website.

Please note: To enter the contest: please visit the HGTV site.

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