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While higher food and gas prices eat into Americans' wallets and incomes, falling home prices are eroding the value of their largest asset....
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Sen. Barack Obama is hoping the housing mess can help sway the November election. The Democratic front-runner pitched his plans to stem the crisis during a visit on Tuesday to Nevada, the state with the highest rate of home foreclosures and a swing state that President Bush narrowly carried in 2000 and 2004....
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The National Association of Realtors has agreed to change its policies on Internet home-sale listings to settle a long legal battle with federal regulators who have accused the group of anti-competitive behavior that harms consumers....
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Housing crisis is finally getting the bipartisan attention it deserves...
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Already burned by bad mortgages on their books, lenders now are feeling rising heat from loans they sold to investors....
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Critical pieces of advice for selling your home in a slowing market:...
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The average sale price for a condominium in Brooklyn increased four percent in April to $656,784, compared to the same period last year...
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In the buyer's market that is the aftermath of the sub-prime mortgage mess in New York and other cities, it will be interesting to see just how active will be the purveyors of fraudulent real estate fees and overcharges, as the market attracts property-hungry opportunists like bees to honey....
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Harry and William Macklowe, the father-son duo behind Macklowe Properties Inc., avoided financial collapse during the weekend by selling the crown jewel of their real-estate empire, the General Motors Building in Manhattan. But now the son is pushing his father aside....
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Every boroughs' homeownership rate has increased steadily since 1990, even as home prices spiked throughout the city....
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As homeowners fall behind on their mortgage payments and face the prospect of foreclosure, con artists are also taking advantage of the mortgage crisis. Some of them are finding ways to cheat homeowners out of their deeds....
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The federal government is filing fewer housing discrimination charges even as consumer complaints against landlords, real estate agents and mortgage brokers have risen steadily....
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Dangling millions, sometimes billions in incentives to big companies to become part of the latest megaproject is often the cost of doing business in the city's development market....
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A slice of good life, the really good life, has gotten a lot more affordable lately
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A strategy common among vacation-home owners gains traction in stagnant real estate markets...
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Stan K
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11 August, 2008 02:41:50