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High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes
Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac
Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...
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Viewpoints: Ron Mullin Plunging home prices a gain for first-time buyers, investors
Thursday Jun 26 | via Ledger Dispatch
I hope that you are not one of those unfortunate homeowners who must sell their house in the current market.
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Related Topix: Contra Costa County, CA, Housing, Home Buying, Foreclosures
Plunging Home Sales in the San Francisco Bay Area
Wednesday Jun 25 | via TheFrontSteps
More doom and gloom data for you to ponder. We won't even point out the silver lining to the always dark cloud of real estate reporting, but it's in thererest assured.
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Related Topix: San Francisco County, CA, San Mateo County, CA, Housing, San Francisco, CA, Contra Costa County, CA
Housing slump makes divorce more complicated
Sunday Jun 22 | via Residential Real Estate
Steve Lederer, a residential real estate appraiser based in San Ramon, was recently hired by a divorcing Danville couple to appraise their home to determine its value for their divorce settlement.
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Related Topix: Housing, San Ramon, CA, Contra Costa County, CA
Home prices drop 30 percent in May
Thursday Jun 19 | via Madera Tribune
The median price of a home in California dropped 30 percent below a year ago to $339,000 in May, opening doors for some first-time buyers to afford homes in the state's most depressed areas, a real estate ...
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Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures
Bargain hunters might end freefall
Thursday Jun 19 | via The Daily Democrat
The "free fall" phase of the California housing market bust could end soon, as bargain-hunters begin buying homes in parts of the state hardest hit by foreclosures, according to a new economic report.
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Related Topix: Housing, Contra Costa County, CA, Solano County, CA, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage
Californians feel pinch--and pinch pennies
15 hrs ago | via McClatchy DC
Skyrocketing gas prices have collided with layoffs, foreclosures and food costs to change the way we live in everyday ways.
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Related Topix: California, Foreclosures
Good food gives chef satisfaction
23 hrs ago | via Hattiesburg American
Pilgrimages are typically once-in-a-lifetime events. If one is lucky he or she might get to make two or three pilgrimages over the course of their life.
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Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, California
Builder incentives: Just marketing, or the real deal?
21 hrs ago | via KCPQ
Most new-home buyers find it hard to resist the lure of builder incentives -- paid closing costs, an allowance for free upgrades at the design center or interest-rate buy-downs. But are they really worth it? ...
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Related Topix: Marketing, California, Foreclosures, Construction, William Lyon Homes, Home Listing, Home
22 hrs ago | via Fresno Bee
Governor's lottery plan gains few defenders. There's not much good news at the moment about the state budget -- it's overdue, as usual; there's no sign of agreement anytime soon; no permanent fix is in sight -- ...
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Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion
Nontraditional tenants occupy dark stores at malls
Saturday | via Journal News
Community college classes in the old mall movie theater. A DMV office across from the Starbucks.
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Related Topix: Housing, California, California Government
Senate to resume work today on housing bill
3 min ago | via NAFCU
July 7, 2008 - The Senate returns to work today and is scheduled to vote on a motion to invoke cloture on what remains to be debated in a housing bill, including $300 million in guarantees for mortgage ...
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Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage
June slack for county's builders
6 min ago | via The Columbian
Clark County's home-building industry turned in another lackluster month in June at a time when the summer construction season is usually kicking into gear.
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Related Topix: Clark County, WA, Home Building, Home, Housing
Most folks in Otisville understand change
6 min ago | via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record
We are working stiffs who wonder how on earth we will pay for gas, mortgages and heat.
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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Orange County, NY, Otisville, NY, Middletown, NY
Housing market in Welsh town shows wider woes
3 hrs ago | via Earthlink
"I'd love to, but I'm single and I can't afford to buy anything on my own, nobody would give me a mortgage," explained Williams, a delivery driver who has just moved back home with his parents after his rent ...
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Related Topix: Housing, Las Vegas, NV, Real Estate, Wrexham, Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, World News, United Kingdom, Home Listing, Home, Mortgage
Sister-Owned Welch Builders Thrives Despite Tough Market
8 min ago | via The Daily News
IN THE BLOOD: Dawn Kinard, who co-founded Welch Builders LLC with her sister, Danya Welch, stands beneath a portrait of her father, Jackie Welch, owner of Welch Realty.
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Related Topix: Germantown, TN, Real Estate, Shelby County, TN, Collierville, TN, Opinion
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