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Veterans: Lip Service, Bankers: Billions & America: Foreclosures - Here's The Fix

Dylan Ratigan | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Bailout, Wall Street, Home Prices, Financial Crisis, Veterans, Home Foreclosures, Business News
Dylan Ratigan

If we must resort to handouts to save our country, let's at least put them in the hands of the most deserving. We should start with the roughly 2 million veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Foreclosures Down 3% In October From September

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Foreclosures, Treasury Department, Home Prices, Real Estate, Home Sales, Realtytrac, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

NEW YORK — The number of homeowners on the brink of losing their homes dipped in October, the third straight monthly decline, as foreclosure pre...

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Median Home Prices Fall In 3Q

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Subprime Mortgages, Home Prices, Barack Obama, Business News

A real estate group says home prices fell in eight out of every 10 U.S. cities in the third quarter of this year as heavily discounted distressed sale...

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Home Prices Are Stablizing, But Foreclosures Still Account For 20 Percent Of Sales: Zillow

Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Real Estate Prices, Home Prices, Home Market, Home Values, Most Expensive Zip Codes, Hottest Zip Codes, Real Estate, Business News

CNBC: On the way down and on the way up, home prices always lag sales, but they may be beginning to catch up. A new report from Zillow.com finds home...

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Fannie Mae Rental Program DETAILS: Program Will Let Thousands Rent Out Homes To Avoid Foreclosure

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Freddie Mac, Fannie Rent, Home Prices, Deed for Lease, Mortgage Crisis, Fannie Mae, Foreclosure, Real Estate, Housing Crisis, Business News

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Homebuyer Tax Credit: Congress Gives New Buyers A $6,500 Break

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgags, Congress, Homebuyer Tax Credit, First-Time Tax Credit, Tax, Home Prices, Real Estate, Homebuyers Tax Credit, Business News

WASHINGTON — Missed out on Cash for Clunkers? Congress has another deal for you: Buy a home before May 1 and collect up to $6,500 from the gover...

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Goldman Sachs Seizing Homes Subprime Mortgages Bought

McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Mtglq, Cases, Hank Paulson, Lawsuits, Middle Class, Suits, Goldman Sachs Subsidiaries, Housing Crisis, Working Class, Goldman Sachs, Judge Roger Efremsky, Lenders, Home Prices, Foreclosure, Subprime, Repossession, Roger Efremsky, Ge, Mortgage Brokers, Mortgage Crisis, Homeowners, Securities Exchange Commission, WMC Mortgage Corp, Judge William Aslup, Wall Street, GE Money, Wiliam Aslup, Henry Paulson, Banks, Sec, Subsidiaries, Business News

Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packa...

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Home Prices: Case-Shiller Index Up For Third Straight Month In August

AP | J.W. ELPHINSTONE | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Mortgage Ciris, Case-Shiller Index, Home Prices, Real Estate, Home Values, Business News

NEW YORK — Home prices rose in August for the third straight month, a rapid pace of recovery that surprised economists and raised questions abou...

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Home Sales Show Big Monthly Increase Due To Expiring Tax Credit

AP | ALAN ZIBEL and ALEX VEIGA | Posted 10.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate Market, National Association of Realtors, Housing, Housing Crisis, Home Prices, Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON — Racing to complete their purchases before a tax credit for first-time owners expires, homebuyers pushed sales up last month by the ...

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Cheapest House In California: SEE How Much The Stockon Home Costs

Mainstreet | Michael Schreiber | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Cheapest House in California, Real Estate, Home Prices, Stockton-California, Business News

If you're in the market for a house in Stockton, Calif., then we have a deal for you! There's a house on the market for $25,000....

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FHA: The Next Housing Bubble? Lawmakers Worry Agency Is Creating Another Boom

latimes.com | Jim Puzzanghera | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: FHA Loans, Federal Housing Administration, Mortgages, Fha, Home Prices, Housing Bubble, Real Estate, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

Reporting from Washington - In the wake of the mortgage meltdown, the Federal Housing Administration has emerged as a pillar of the still wobbly housi...

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Home Prices Cut By $28.4 Billion In U.S., Trulia Says

bloomberg.com | Daniel Taub | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business

Read More: National Association of Realtors, Mortgages, Home Prices, Home Values, Mortgage Crisis, Real Estate, Truilia, Business News

Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. home sellers cut their asking prices by a total of $28.4 billion to attract buyers as the real estate recovery stalled, Tru...

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Home Prices: Robert Shiller: 5 More Years of Stagnant Real Estate

WSJ | Nina Koeppen | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Case-Shiller Index, Foreclosure, Home Prices, Robert Shiller, Real Estate, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

Robert Shiller, the Yale University economist who famously predicted the housing bust, was awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics toda...

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Is Credit Evil?

Don McNay | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Financial Peace, Kentucky Guardianship Administrators, Capital One, Investment Risk, Big Money, Cnbc, Aig, Mortgages, Richmond Ky, Home Prices, Christian Author, Financial Crisis, Immediate Annuity, American College, Tax-Refund-Anticipation-Loans, Lexington, Personal Finance, Credit Card Fees, McNay Settlement Group, Msfs, Payday Lending, Structured Settlement, Citigroup, Chfc, Loan Sharks, Home Mortgages, Car Loans, Upside Down, Larry Burkett, Kentucky, Don McNay, Payday Loans, Credit Crisis, Structured Settlement Annuity, Credit Cards, Fox Business News, Clu, American Express, Dave Ramsey, JPMorgan Chase, Cnn, Subprime Mortgages, Credit, Vanderbilt University, Syndicated Radio, Million Dollar Round Table, Eastern Kentucky University, Fox News, Warren Buffett, Cssc, Annuity, Race Track, Too Big to Fail, High Interest Rates, Christian Financial Concepts, Louisvile, Business News
Don McNay

I've watched many people get in trouble with upside down car loans, second mortgages or high interest rate financing. Credit keeps many people from living within their means. Then a friend told me he was buying a large house.

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Home Prices Increase From June To July

AP | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Mortgage Ciris, Home Prices, Economy, Case-Shiller Index, Real Estate, Business News

NEW YORK — Home prices rose for the third month in a row in July, new data Tuesday showed, more proof a fragile housing recover is underway. The ...

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Home Prices: Now May Be The Time To Buy Luxury Real Estate

AP | ADRIAN SAINZ | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Housing Market, Luxury Real Estate, Real Estate, Home Prices Fall, Home Prices, Business News

A million dollars doesn't buy you what it once did. In most U.S. neighborhoods, it now gets you a lot more. During the housing boom, prices rose so h...

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The Most Expensive Housing Markets In The United States: Coldwell Banker (PHOTOS)

Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Most Expensive Real Estate, Boston, San Mateo, Slidehuge, Home Prices, Greenwhich, Beverly Hills, Business, San Francisco, La Jolla, Most Expensive Housing Markets, Business News

Today, Coldwell Banker released its list of the most expensive housing markets in the United States. If you're lucky enough to own property in one of ...

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Case-Shiller Index: 2Q Showed First National Price Increase In 3 Years

AP | J.W. Elphinstone, AP Real Estate Writer | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Housing Prices, Real Estate, Case-Shiller Index, Home Prices, Business News

NEW YORK (AP) -- Home prices across most of the country have started to rise from the depths of the housing slump, a critical trend that will help sta...

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Home Prices: No Quick Recovery Ahead

Wall Street Journal | BRETT ARENDS | Posted 09.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Housing Prices, Housing Market, Home Prices, Economy, Business News

o, is our long national nightmare over? Has the housing market finally hit bottom? There has been some muted -- albeit exhausted -- cheering from hom...

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Rescued by the House No One Wanted

Tina Traster | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Rescue, Old House, Suburbia, Burb Appeal, Rescue Plan, Abandoned Pets, Pets, Home Prices, Home Sales, House Renovation, Adopting Pets, Happiness, Adoption, Living News
Tina Traster

I have a thing for rescue. Put in certain circumstances I act before I think, especially when crises involve animals. It's a reflex.

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Is Housing a Barometer for Economic Recovery?

Jill Schlesinger | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Interest Rates, CBS Early Show, Harry Smith, Wages, Economic Recovery, Housing Market, Unemployment, Economic Recession, Home Prices, Business News
Jill Schlesinger

It's amazing what qualifies for good news during the nation's longest post-War recession on record.

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June New Home Sales Up 11 Percent

AP | ALAN ZIBEL and ALEX VEIGA | Posted 08.27.2009 | Business

Read More: New Home Sales, Real Esate Prices, Real Estate, Home Prices, June New Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON — New home sales rose last month at the fastest clip in more than eight years as buyers eagerly took advantage of bargain prices &nda...

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Hamptons Luxury Home Market Has Four-Year Inventory Backup

bloombergenergy.com | Oshrat Carmiel | Posted 08.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate Crisis, Summer Homes, Hamptons, Real Estate Prices, Prudential Douglas Elliman, Home Prices, Luxury Real Estate, Coldwell Banker, Business News

uxury home sales in the Hamptons, New York's oceanside retreat for Wall Street and Hollywood luminaries, stalled in the second quarter as the number o...

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25 Best Towns For Affordable Homes

Posted 08.16.2009 | Business

Read More: 25 Best Towns for Affordable Homes, Duncanville Texas, Home Prices, New Haven Indiana, Business News

Where can you get the most bang for your buck in this shaky real estate market? Money Magazine has compiled a list of 25 towns with the most affordabl...

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Real Estate Crash: How's Your City Doing? (SLIDESHOW)

businessinsider.com | Henry Blodget and Kamelia Angelova|Jul. 1, 2009, 6:48 PM|19 | Posted 08.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate Crisis, Real Estate Prices, Real Estate Crash, Home Prices, Home Values, Case-Shiller Index, Silicon Alley Insider, Business News

The rate of crash for real-estate prices nationwide has finally begun to moderate. Specifically, it dropped from -19% a year in March to -18% a year ...

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