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• Whose Hurt With Declining Market Labels

  Sunday | via Realty Trac 

  It all started late last year when both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced a new loan standard for "declining markets." From now on, said the nation's largest mortgage buyers, if a local market is "declining" ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing

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• Whose Hurt With Declining Market Labels

  Sunday | via Realty Trac 

  It all started late last year when both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced a new loan standard for "declining markets." From now on, said the nation's largest mortgage buyers, if a local market is "declining" ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing

• Home sales hit 8-month high

  2 hrs ago | via Press-Telegram 

  Southern California's thawing real estate market heated up in April when home sales hit their highest level in eight months as bargain hunters snapped up foreclosed properties, an industry tracker said Monday.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, August, CA, Los Angeles County, CA

• Pets fall victim to high number of foreclosures

  10 hrs ago | via LA Daily News 

  It's sad enough when a family must lose its home during a soaring number of national bank foreclosures.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles County, CA, Foreclosures, Los Angeles, CA

• Movement in weak Southern California housing market

  23 hrs ago | via KCPQ 

  Southern California home sales continued to decline in April, with 19% fewer homes sold compared to the same month a year ago, a real estate information service reported today.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, California, San Bernardino, CA, Los Angeles County, CA, Riverside Metro

• Lawndale couple counts cost of home fraud

  Yesterday | via Daily Breeze 

  When Richard and Brenda Clark bought their first house in Lawndale eight years ago, they thought it would be their nest egg. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Huntington Beach, CA, Lawndale, CA, Los Angeles County, CA, Home Listing, Home

• Real Homes of Genius: Today we Salute you Compton. Once, Twice, Three times a Short Sale.

  Wednesday May 14 | via Dr. Housing Bubble Blog 

  Once again the ministry of truth tells us that inflation is tame so long as you don't eat or drive which makes for a fascinating Wall Street spectacle.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles County, CA, Housing, Foreclosures, California

• Mom forced to live in car with dogs

  1 hr ago | via SI.com 

  Barbara Harvey climbs into the back of her small Honda sport utility vehicle and snuggles with her two golden retrievers, her head nestled on a pillow propped against the driver's seat.

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  Related Topix: California, Foreclosures, California Government

• More Schools To Face Law's Consequences

  4 hrs ago | via KFMB-TV San Diego 

  Pink slips for principals and teachers. School-funded tutoring for poor kids. Schools are increasingly looking at those kind of consequences for failing to raise math and reading scores.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Family, Kids, Education Etc., California

• State says mortgage fund owner loaned himself $38 million

  4 hrs ago | via San Diego Daily Transcript 

  The California Department of Real Estate says the owner of Cedar Funding loaned $38 million to himself and one of his businesses from the firm's mortgage fund without telling investors.

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  Related Topix: California, Mortgage, Home

• Home sales rise in Southern California area

  8 hrs ago | via San Jose Mercury News 

  Home sales surged 22 percent in Southern California in April compared with March, as bargain-hunters bought lower-end homes in areas hardest hit by foreclosures, a research firm said Monday.

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  Related Topix: Housing, California, August, CA, Foreclosures, Los Angeles Metro, San Bernardino, CA

• Calif. home sales perk up

  11 hrs ago | via Reno Gazette-Journal 

  California home sales surged in April, with the Sacramento area seeing its first year-over-year sales increase in more than three years.

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  Related Topix: California, Sacramento County, CA, Real Estate

• In brief: Doctors oppose billing proposal

  3 min ago | via San Diego Union-Tribune 

  Numerous doctors asked state officials during a hearing yesterday in San Diego to reconsider plans to ban physicians and hospitals from billing emergency-room patients for charges not covered by insurance ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Oakland, CA

• Number of condos for Signature Tower cut in half

  11 hrs ago | via The Tennessean 

  Developer Tony Giarratana plans to eliminate more than half of the condos in his proposed 70-story skyscraper, Signature Tower, in a bid to find financing for the project amid a weak real estate market.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate

• To Sell or To Reverse Mortgage??

  8 min ago | via Huliq.com 

  Many people are not aware of all the opportunities available to senior borrowers with the Reverse mortgage program.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Personal Finance, Mortgage, Mortgage

• No permits, no problem: How sellers avoid trouble

  8 min ago | via The Boston Globe 

  Inman News Dear Barry, Now that I'm selling my home, I'm concerned about improvements that were done without building permits.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home

• Would voluntary rescue plans work?

  9 min ago | via Boston Globe 

  This post is basically an advice column: I advise that you listen to a recent broadcast of This American Life, a public radio program that generally celebrates the mundane, but recently dipped into the arcane ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage