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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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New Home Sales Fall 3.6 Percent

Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, New Home Sales, Housing Crisis, New Homes, Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sales of new U.S. homes dropped unexpectedly last month as the effects of a soon-to-expire tax credit for first-time owners started...

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Bloomberg: US GDP Probably Grew 3.2% As Stimulus Took Hold

Bloomberg | Timothy R. Homan | Posted 10.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Recovery, Car Sales, Durable Goods, Gdp, Economy, Cash for Clunkers, Commerce Department, Manufacturing, Economic Growth, Wall Street, Recession, Home Sales, Business News

The economy in the U.S. probably grew in the third quarter at the fastest pace in two years as government stimulus helped bring an end to the worst re...

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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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Strangest Homes On The Market (PHOTOS)

AOL | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate Market, Houses, Homes, Real Estate, Home Sales, Business News

Oddball properties dot neighborhoods across the country--castle-like structures and homes built from lighthouses and bamboo. From a "residential commu...

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The Statistics Of The Great Recession

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Treasury Department, Economy, Home Sales, Recession, Debt, Personal Savings Rate, The Fed, Unemployment Rate, Barack Obama, Numbers, Statistics, Stock Gains, Stock Losses, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Peronal Debt, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Business News

NEW YORK — A year ago this weekend, the Dow Jones industrial average had just finished a slow-motion crash. Over eight days, it fell 2,400 point...

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Targeting the Scattershot Home Buying Tax Credit

David M. Abromowitz | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Home Buyers, Homeowners, Foreclosure, First-Time Homebuyers Credit, Tax Credit, Home Sales, Business News

Four out of five buyers were handed $8,000 by other taxpayers for a purchase they would have made anyway. The Obama administration could do better by targeting the credit to people who need it.

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Home Buyer Credit: Clock Ticking On Tax Credit For First-Time Buyers

washingtonpost.com | Dina ElBoghdady | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business

Read More: National Association of Realtors, First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit, Real Estate, Home Buyer Credit, Home Sales, Business News

First-time home buyers are scrambling to take advantage of an $8,000 tax credit set to expire in coming weeks, while Congress considers whether to ext...

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Want to See Neighborhoods that Beat the Bust? Take a Walk

John F. Wasik | Posted 09.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Boston, Pennsylvania, Living News, New Mexico, Personal Health, Neighborhoods, Health, Home Sales, Georgia, Atlanta, Seattle, San Francisco, Cities, New York, Home Foreclosures, Business News

Pedestrian-friendly cities can make huge personal economic sense. If you don't need a car, you can save thousands a year.

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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

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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Great Recession: All's Well That Ends Well?

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Banks, Michael Wolff, Dow Jones, Obama Socialist, Bank Bonuses, Barack Obama, Recession, Home Sales, Business News

So it's almost official. The recession is almost over.

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Kiss The Deals Goodbye

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Attorneys, Law Practice, Real Estate, Recession, Economy, Home Sales, Business News

While buyers dally, sellers fret. They can't realistically make offers on move-up homes or retirement villas or pay off their creditors.

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Still a Shaky Foundation for Housing

Dan Dorfman | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Housing Bubble, Home Foreclosures, Home Sales, Business News

Would you buy a stock that has a good chance of going down in the current slumping stock market? If your absurd answer is yes, you might also want buy a house.

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May Existing Home Sales Up 2.4 Percent, Less Than Expected (VIDEO)

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 07.24.2009 | Business

Read More: National Association of Realtors, May Home Sales, Existing Home Sales, Real Estate Prices, Home Sales, Real Estate, Business News

WASHINGTON — Sales of previously occupied homes rose modestly from April to May, the third monthly increase this year, but signs of a housing re...

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Construction Spending, Home Sales Rise

AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business

Read More: New Home Sales, March Home Sales, Construction Spending, Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON — Evidence that housing is poised to improve and optimism about the results of banking "stress tests" raised hopes Monday that the re...

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Second Home Sales Fall 30%

AP | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Second Home Sales, National Association of Realtors, Nar Home Sales Report, Nar Report, Second Home Sales Fall, Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON — Sales of vacation and investment homes slid 22 percent last year, a sign that tough economic conditions and tight lending requireme...

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Economic News: Desperately Seeking Succor

Rick Horowitz | Posted 04.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Cnbc, Durable Goods Sales, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, New-Home Sales, Financial News Coverage, Business News, Existing-Home Sales, Home Sales, Business News

So I say it's time to invest in straws. Let's corner the straw market, and ride the tide of exploding straw demand to riches we've only dreamed about!

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February New Home Sales Rise Unexpectedly

AP | ALAN ZIBEL | Posted 04.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Commerce Department, Home Sales Rise, Home Sales, February Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON — New home sales rebounded unexpectedly last month, but were still the second-worst on record and remained well below last year's lev...

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Home Prices: 6.3% Decline In January

AP | Posted 04.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate Market, Real Estate, Home Prices, Home Sales, Business News

WASHINGTON — A government report says U.S. home prices fell 6.3 percent in January from the same month last year. The Federal Housing Finance A...

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Staging to Sell

Roseanne Colletti | Posted 04.23.2009 | Style

Read More: Homeowners, De-Clutter, Recession, Home Sales, Curb Appeal, Home Staging, Style News

Richard Gere sang about it in "Chicago," Razzle-dazzle them." That's exactly what you may have to do in order to sell your house when few are buy...

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Florida Home Sales Surge For Fifth Month

mjperry.blogspot.com | Mark J. Perry | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business

Read More: Florida, Home Sales Florida, Real Estate, Florida Real Estate, Existing Home Sales, Florida Home Sales, Home Sales, Business News

Florida's existing home sales rose in January, making it the fifth month in a row that sales activity showed increases in the year-to-year comparison,...

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The Reality Behind Real Estate

Michael Pento | Posted 03.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Subprime Mortgages, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Real Estate Values, Real Estate Bubble, President Obama, Economic Crisis, Foreclosure, Free Market, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Real Estate, Home Sales, Home Foreclosures, Business News

The Obama team feels it is better to artificially prop up home prices at an unsustainable level rather than have them retreat to a price that can be supported by the free market.

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Sales People Create Economies

Grant Cardone | Posted 03.02.2009 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Retail Sales, Business, Money, Recession, Home Sales, Sales, Economy, Economic Crisis, Shopping, Consumers, Consumption, Business News

Marketing without a trained sales team is a "one way" vehicle, causing the company to only activate at the point of marketing and then become passive.

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Bargains Everywhere?

Lloyd Garver | Posted 02.04.2009 | Home

Read More: Bargains, Shopping, Economy, Deals, Bargaining, Retail Sales, Bargain Hunters, Home Sales, Home News

Armed with some basic instructions from articles and websites, I decided to do some shopping -- with a new attitude.

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Chances You'll Be Killed by an Asteroid in 2009

Keith Thomson | Posted 01.30.2009 | World

A computer video circulating the internet has rekindled fears that an asteroid will hit Earth and send mankind the way of the brontosaurus. Based on NASA projections, there is indeed a chance of this.

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