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FDIC Fire Sale! 11 Homes For Under $10,000 (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Carlos Cagin | Posted 12.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Slidehuge, Homes, Slidepoll, Cheapest Homes, Home Prices, Real Estate, Cheap Homes, Cleveland, Failed Banks, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Michigan, FDIC Real Estate Sales, Housing Crisis, Foreclosure, Subprime Mortgage, Detroit, Business News

Need a cheap home? Just call the FDIC. During the housing crisis, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company took over thousands of failed banks' soure...

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Australia Builds World's Largest Homes As U.S. Dwellings Shrink (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.30.2009 | World

Read More: Slideshow, Australia Biggest House, Homes, Worlds Biggest House, Buildings, Houses, Mcmansion, Slidepoll, World News

The American McMansion has met its match. A new study reports that Australians now live in the world's largest homes, overtaking the U.S in the rankin...

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Restoring a House in the City: An Interview With Ingrid Abramovitch

Cynthia Kling | Posted 11.11.2009 | Books

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Cynthia Kling

Ingrid Abramovitch recently published a book called Restoring a House in the City, about twenty-one very different and renovated houses

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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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Why Authorities Haven't Been Able To Stop The Growth Of "Foreclosure Rescue" Scams

Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Foreclosure Rescues, Real Estate, Homes, Houses, Foreclosure, Business News

By Paul Kiel, ProPublica This story was produced by ProPublica under a Creative Commons license. During the go-go years of the real estate bubble, ...

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America's Most Expensive Homes

ABC News | Matthew Woolsey | Posted 07.28.2009 | Business

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There's been a lot of denial among luxury homeowners. In 2006, it was thought that the luxury market wouldn't suffer the same fate as the broader mark...

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Iraqis Still Unable To Return To War-Ravaged Homes

csmonitor.com | Tom A. Peter | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

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HADI SADOUN, IRAQ - When Sheikh Jamal Sadoun, a prominent Sunni accused of working with the US, returned to his once sprawling eight-bedroom farmhouse...

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"Withering Heights"

Jerry Zezima | Posted 02.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Homes, Houses, Humor, Roofs, Health, Safety, Skylights, China, Olympics, Overcoming Fear of Heights, Fear of Heights, Home Repair, Living News
Jerry Zezima

One of the things I discovered when I bought my house is that being a homeowner is the height of folly. This was frighteningly evident the first time...

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Why Home Values May Take Decades To Recover

USA Today | Dennis Cauchon | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Foreclosures, Home Prices, Real Estate, Homes, Home Values, Mortgage Crisis, Business News

Rick Wallick moved into a new, three-bedroom $200,000 home in Maricopa, Ariz., in October 2005. Today, the home is worth $80,000. The disabled softwa...

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The Mansion Trap

Vicky Ward | Posted 12.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Billionaires, Hearst Castle, Veronica Hearst. Randy Hearst, Patti Hearst, Society, The Rich, Hearst, Mansions, Homes, Real Estate, Business, Princess Diana, Business News
Vicky Ward

On February 25 of this year, the famed Hearst residence Villa Venezia was foreclosed on for $22 million. It was revealed that Veronica Hearst was $45 million in debt and was living a life she could not afford.

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McCain's Million Dollar Parking Lot

Robert Greenwald | Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Parking Lot, John McCain, Mansion, Homes, 2008 Election, Recession, Economy, Barack Obama, Politics News
Robert Greenwald

Not only does John McCain have at least 10 properties he can't remember, but he also owns a parking lot in Phoenix Arizona worth between $1.4 and ...

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Friday Talking Points [44] -- McCain House Party!

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

John McCain said something ridiculous to a reporter yesterday. I hasten to point out that the previous sentence should have been a major media headlin...

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McCain's Mansions: The Houses That Greed Built

Robert Greenwald | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics

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Robert Greenwald

Far too many are buying into McCain's deceit because the corporate press won't present the whole picture, so we created this video to educate the public about the REAL McCain.

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