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3 hrs ago | News-journal.com

Home sales in area balloon

Home sales in the Longview-Marshall area jumped more than 11 percent during the fourth quarter of 2009, reflecting a statewide double digit increase trend, officials said.

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Related Topix: Longview Metro, Longview, TX, Texas, Texas A&M University, Home, Mortgage

7 hrs ago | Denton Record-Chronicle

Dallas-Fort Worth home prices edge higher

North Texas home prices inched higher in January. Pre-owned median home prices were up 1 percent last month from a year earlier.

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Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Real Estate, Texas A&M University

Tue Feb 09, 2010

Connecticut Post

Rell's budget proposes new revenues, spending cuts

Gov. M. Jodi Rell proposed her final budget to a generally receptive Legislature on Wednesday, asking lawmakers to inaugurate Keno gambling for a new revenue stream, while retaining nearly current spending levels.

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Related Topix: M. Jodi Rell, US Governors, Brookfield, CT, Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Shelton, CT

Ann Arbor.com

Pulte narrows loss, expressing optimism for home building in 2010

Pulte Homes Inc . said Tuesday its loss narrowed in its fourth quarter, and the nation's largest homebuilder expressed cautious optimism for housing demand this year.

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Related Topix: Construction, Pulte, Home, Mortgage, Bloomfield Hills, MI

National Post

Canadian Real Estate Association forecasts record home sales in 2010

The Canadian Real Estate Association now says 2010 will be a record year for home sales.

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Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Mortgage, Personal Finance

SmartMoney

Stocks Higher After Budget Talk, Data

Home Buyers: Pending home sales index shows signs of stabilization. Geithner Testifies: The Treasury Secretary is on the Hill to talk about the 2011 budget.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Auto Dealers

The Honolulu Advertiser

Maui home sales up 48% from 2009

Maui's housing market experienced dramatic swings in sales of single-family homes and condominiums in January compared with the same month a year earlier.

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Related Topix: Real Estate

Mon Feb 08, 2010

People's Daily

ICBC to curb property loans

The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China vows it will not issue new loans to developers who seek to speculate on rising property prices through "hoarding land" or "putting off home sales" and may also call back earlier credit to such borrowers.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage

KGW-TV Portland

Why house short sales take such a long time

Anyone trying to sell their home today knows it's a challenge. Now couple that will trying to sell your home on a short sale.

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Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Real Estate, Mortgage

Penticton Herald

Real-estate associationa s rules challenged by federal competition watchdog

Homebuyers and sellers could see a significant decrease in transaction fees if Canada's Competition Bureau wins a challenge to the Canadian Real Estate Association's all-or-nothing pricing structure, according to a bureau spokesman.

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Related Topix: Real Estate

The Globe and Mail

Housing starts hit 15-month high

House prices to hit record: report CREA expects Canadian sales activity to surge and prices to reach $337,500, as January housing starts numbers also point to a booming industry Tavia Grant Published on Monday, Feb.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Home, Mortgage

The Age

Greenspan says unemployment not likely to fall soon

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said it is "very difficult" to see US unemployment falling soon and that an economic recovery is "going to be a slow, trudging thing." He also expressed concern about falling stock prices.

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Related Topix: Financial Markets, Foreclosures

The Peninsula

Talaat Moustafa to launch Saudi project

CAIRO: Talaat Moustafa Group, Egypt's biggest developer by market value, plans to launch its first project in Saudi Arabia within three months to target the country's young, wealthy buyers, its finance director said.

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Related Topix: Middle East, Saudi Arabia, World News, Business News

Sun Feb 07, 2010

Tahoe Daily Tribune

Commission approves 3-cent room tax hike question for voters

A new occupancy tax increase approved by Douglas County could mean $800,000 more to market Lake Tahoe and Douglas County and another $460,000 for parks and recreation.

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Related Topix: Douglas County, NV

Bloomberg.com - Asia

Ex-Macquarie Property Head Moss Sees Wages Hurting Australian Home Prices

The revival in Australian home prices risks stalling because slowing wage growth is putting higher house valuations out of the reach of buyers, said Bill Moss , former head of property at Macquarie Group Ltd.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement, Home, Mortgage

The Orange County Register

Robert Samuelson: The perils of prosperity

WASHINGTON We need to get the story straight. Already, a crude consensus has formed over what caused the financial crisis.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Ben Bernanke, Prison, Opinion

The Herald

Ominous new trend: paying on credit cards before mortgages

My grandmother, Big Mama, had a key financial rule that I've followed throughout my life.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

Ottawa Business Journal

Fourth month of double-digit gains for Ottawa resale market in January

Ottawa's resale housing market got off to a strong start in January 2010, with total sales rising 34.8 per cent to 713 units, according to numbers released Wednesday by the Ottawa Real Estate Board.

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HometownAnnapolis

Sorting through the homebuyer tax credit

If you bought a home in 2009, you could be eligible for a tax credit, but figuring out which one can be confusing.

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Related Topix: Real Estate, 9, Tax

Sat Feb 06, 2010

The Herald

Prices drive spike in home sales

People bought more homes in Snohomish County in January as prices continued to fall.

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Related Topix: Snohomish County, WA, Seattle Metro

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