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23 min ago | Journal Gazette

Homes for sale scarce as sellers wait for price rebound

Profits at big U.S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs. The head of a typical public company made $9. U.S. bank earnings rose in the first three months of the year to the highest level in nearly five years, and the number of troubled banks fell for the fourth straight quarter.

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Related Topix: Housing, Home Listing, Home, Redfin, Mountain View, CA

4 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Zombie attack? Naked man killed while eating face of victim

Although San Diego can get wild, we can at least say that there has been no Zombie attacks, unlike what Miami is reporting to have happened on Saturday.

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Related Topix: American Mortgage Acceptance

8 hrs ago | Patch.com

Blotter: Man Poses as Real Estate Agent to Scope Out Houses

A The following incidents are among the official reports of theA Lake ForestA and Lake Bluff police departments .

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Related Topix: Lake Bluff, IL, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Waukegan, IL, Drugs

12 hrs ago | Mansfield News Journal

Craigslist rental scam hits Mansfield

Otto Schmidt, 84, listed his Woodland Road house for sale with a local real estate agency, and the next thing he knew, his house was listed as a rental property on Craigslist.

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Related Topix: Mansfield, OH, Home Listing, Home

17 hrs ago | Detroit Free Press

Luxury homes are selling for more than the asking prices in many parts of the country

Above: This home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles was listed for $1.55 million and sold for about $1.705 million.

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Related Topix: Los Angeles, CA, Brentwood (Los Angeles, CA), Home Listing, Home, West Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA), Housing

21 hrs ago | SFGate

S.F.'s diverse real estate frenzy expected to last

How much hotter is the San Francisco real estate market getting? Let us count the ways.

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Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, Larkspur, CA

Sat May 26, 2012

Star Tribune

Shift gives homeownership new lease on life

Realtor Pam Benbow of Coldwell Banker Burnet showed Chris Grobmeier, a longtime renter, a townhome for sale in Eden Prairie.

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Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Eden Prairie, MN, Home Buying, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Patch.com

House Hunt - McLean

Real estate: The source of endless fascination at cocktail parties. A reason for otherwise normal neighbors to turn into peeping voyeurs as they check out the closets of their neighbor during an Open House.

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Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, McLean, VA

Switched

Gary Miller vs. Pete Aguilar: Super PACs Of Realtors, Credit Union...

Gary Miller is backed by $1.2 million in spending by the National Association of Realtors in his bid for reelection in a newly redrawn district.

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Related Topix: Gary Miller, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, California, California Government

Curbed

Fun With Urban Planning: Long Delayed Randall's Island Connector is Saved

Plans for a pedestrian and bike bridge between Randall's Island and the Bronx can finally move forward, as the city reached a deal with Harlem River Yards Ventures, the developer of the Bronx site.

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Patch.com

Open Houses in Burlington This Weekend

Realtors, this is your space. Upload photos of the houses you're showing this weekend and enter the property's details in the caption.

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Reuters

Asia's richest man cleverly sidesteps possibility of family feud

Octogenarian Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-shing mapped out a succession plan for one of Asia's biggest family empires, ensuring a smoother transition for the Cheung Kong .

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Related Topix: Li Ka Shing, Cheung Kong, Hutchison Whampoa, Retail, PCCW, Telecom

Fri May 25, 2012

The Hamilton Spectator

Stay or go? Reno vs. Relocate explores difficult dilemma faced by homeowners

Homes reno Real estate agent Vanessa Roman, left, and designer Robin Lewis will seek to help befuddled homeowners find the solution in HGTV's Reno vs.

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Related Topix: Home Listing, Home

USA Today

Seller's market returns as homes for sale drop in some areas

The dwindling inventories - driven by a mix of reluctant sellers, fewer foreclosure resales and rising demand - are spreading as the housing market gains strength.

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Related Topix: Foreclosures, Redfin, Home Listing, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Sunherald.com

Smoke from massive fire spreads across NM, Ariz.

This Tuesday, May 22, 2012, photo, provided by David Thornburg shows a plume of smoke rising from the Whitewater fire burning in the Gila Wilderness east of Glenwood, N.M. Fire managers said the blaze had charred more than 10,000 acres before merging Wednesday afternoon with the nearby 11,500-acre Baldy fire.

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Related Topix: Fire, Financial Services, Thornburg Mortgage, Memorial Day, Life, Holidays, Natural Disasters, Wildfire, San Diego County, CA

Chicago Tribune

Police: Gunman has hostages in Valpo office

VALPARAISO, Ind. -- A gunman looking for someone he believes owes him money took an unknown number of hostages inside an Indiana real estate office Friday, police said, prompting officers to shut down nearby streets and surround the building with guns drawn.

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Related Topix: Valparaiso, IN

The Jersey Journal

Hoboken real estate market sign of U.S. housing rebound: report

The real estate market in Hoboken is the latest sign of recovery in the housing market, according to a report by Bloomberg .

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Related Topix: Construction, Toll Brothers

Information Technology

Council OKs online appeals of parking tickets

May 25, 2012 -- TIRED OF TAKING off from work to appeal a parking ticket? Those days of running to the Bureau of Administrative Adjudication will soon be over.

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Related Topix: Philadelphia Parking Authority

24 Hours

ScarJo, Reynolds home on market

Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds have placed their home on the L.A. real estate market.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Scarlett Johansson, Hot Chicks, Entertainment

Thu May 24, 2012

WDBO-AM Orlando

Report: Lehman estate to buy Archstone stake

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s bankruptcy estate has reached a deal to acquire a bigger stake in apartment-building owner Archstone for $1.58 billion, according to a published report.

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Related Topix: Investment Banking, Lehman Brothers, Financial Services, Englewood, CO, Equity Residential

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