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Maybe You Shouldn't Take Advantage of the Down Market

Posted by repa 1127 days ago, popular 1127 days ago (http://www.realestateproarticles.com)
Category: Real Estate | Tags: housing real estate home price
Yes, that’s right, maybe you shouldn’t take advantage of the low prices and interest rates currently bringing the price of real estate to an all-time[...] read more »
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Should Your Buy a Home Right Now?

Posted by realblog 1153 days ago, popular 1152 days ago (http://www.mint.com)
Category: Real Estate | Tags: advise home buying real estate help
Conventional wisdom says that buying is preferable to renting. Instead of throwing money away on a home, you can invest in your future and have the s[...] read more »
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Banks Starting to Walk Away from Foreclosures

Posted by jimmyatkinson 1154 days ago, popular 1153 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Real Estate | Tags: banks housing mortgage mortgage crisis
Banks are quietly declining to take possession of properties at the end of the foreclosure process, most often because the cost of the ordeal exceeds[...] read more »
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MORE GREEN FOR BUILDING GREEN - Kiplinger.com

Posted by Kiplingermedia 1174 days ago (http://www.kiplinger.com)
Category: Green | Tags: business evironment green money
Small businesses have added incentives to trim energy consumption. read more »
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Google makes a Digg for the Recession (TipJar)

Posted by coglethorpe 1180 days ago (http://venturebeat.com)
Category: Personal Finance | Tags: google saving tips
Google helps the rest of us save while they continue to make epic bank. :-) Seriously, Google presents a tool to help us help each other save in hard[...] read more »
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Moffett resigning as Freddie Mac CEO

Posted by gulfshoreslife 1183 days ago (http://news.yahoo.com)
Category: Real Estate | Tags: freddie mac mortgages subprime
The top executive of Freddie Mac is quitting after less than six months on the job as the company continues to hemorrhage from mortgage losses and pl[...] read more »
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Significant Increase of Mortgage Applications in February

Posted by repa 1191 days ago, popular 1191 days ago (http://www.realestateproarticles.com)
Category: Real Estate | Tags: foreclosure home loan mortgage
Applications for mortgage loans increased in February as average fixed-mortgage rates fell below 5 percent. Among these applications are refinancing requests by borrowers avoiding foreclosure. read more »
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Getting your hands on some green ... stimulus

Posted by gulfshoreslife 1196 days ago (http://money.cnn.com)
Category: Green | Tags: eco livings green green homes
If you want to green-up your home - and get the government to kick in for part of the bill - now may be the time to do it, thanks to the stimulus. read more »
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The Next Little Thing?

Posted by gulfshoreslife 1210 days ago (http://www.nytimes.com)
Category: Green | Tags: green homes green living small houses
Which is why Mr. Janzen has become interested in the small house movement, whose adherents believe in minimizing one’s footprint — structural as well as carbon — by living in spaces that are smaller than 1,000sf to 100 square feet. read more »
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