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Region's housing sales show unexpected strength in June
2 hrs ago | via Palm Beach Post
Sharply depressed prices appeared to bolster the region's housing sales in June, even as the the nation registered downward sales numbers.
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Doctor sues to collect $235,000 from ex
Yesterday | via Palm Beach Post
Earning $41,000 a year, there's doubt that West Boca High special ed teacher Lisa Rader could ever pay off her mortgage-size debt.
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Friday Jul 18 | via Daily Business Review
Web Extra: Deed Buyers John G. Snyder and Hinda M. Snyder, as trustees of 130 Cocoanut Row Realty Trust, named for the property address, paid an additional $320,000 to cover the real estate sales commission and ...
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Governments Do The Right Thing By Holding Line On Taxes
Tuesday Jul 15 | via The Town-Crier Newspaper
Governments Do The Right Thing By Holding Line On Taxes Town-Crier Staff Opinion 11.JUL.08 Palm Beach County and its municipalities have felt the one-two punch of a bad real estate market and Florida's recently ...
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Sunday Jul 13 | via South Florida Business Journal
Filed foreclosures of condominiums in Broward County are double the activity in Miami-Dade County for the first half of 2008, according to data provided by Condo Vultures Realty .
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Regional Headlines
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31 min ago | via The Miami Herald
With the local economy on the ropes and the number of borrowers behind on their mortgages rising, South Florida median home prices and sales continued sliding last month, falling an average 20.5 percent in ...
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1 hr ago | via Daily Business Review
That's one of the explanations in a 40-page response to a Miami Herald investigation, which found that more than 10,000 people with criminal records were permitted to work in Florida's mortgage industry between ...
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Florida To Address Criminals In Mortgage Industry
1 hr ago | via Tampa Bay Online
The head of a state agency that allowed thousands of criminals to sell home loans in Florida has acknowledged that his office did not follow a screening law, but blamed legislators for failing to provide money ...
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McCollum "not ready" to say whether battered mortgage chief should go
3 hrs ago | via El Sentinel
Next Tuesday is bound to be a bloodletting when the Florida Cabinet meets to decide the fate of embattled Office of Financial Regulation chief Don Saxon .
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FAR: South Florida home sales continue decline
Monday Jul 21 | via South Florida Business Journal
Year-over-year single-family home sales and prices declined again in June, across South Florida and the state, a Florida Association of Realtors report showed.
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National Headlines
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Sales of Existing Homes Nonexistent
5 min ago | via Huliq.com
Sales of US existing homes fell 2.6% to an annualized rate of 4.86 million from a 4.99 million pace the prior month.
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Banks step up Fed borrowing, Wall Street passes
5 min ago | via The Flint Journal
Banks stepped up their borrowing over the past week from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program, while Wall Street firms didn't draw such loans.
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Jobless claims jump as housing market gets weaker
6 min ago | via Marin Independent Journal
Two cornerstones of the economy - jobs and housing - sank to new depths Thursday, with unemployment claims bolting higher and home prices recording one of their steepest drops on record.
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6 min ago | via The Globe and Mail
The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped 34,000 last week, the Labor Department said, in part reflecting seasonal volatility typical at this time of year, but also indicating ...
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Md. Woman Charged In Tax Scandal
6 min ago | via NewsChannel 8
A real estate agent from Prince George's County has been charged in a scheme that prosecutors believe defrauded the D.C. tax office out of nearly $50 million.
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