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Manhattan Rents Drop a Bit in June

Average June rents for non-doorman studios were below $2,000 on the Upper East Side ($1,831), the Upper West Side ($1,968), Harlem ($1,287), and Midtown West ($1,984)....
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Paulson Foresees Home Price Stability

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson predicted Tuesday that U.S. housing prices would stabilize by year's end and overall economic growth would improve by then....
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Greenspan: Don't Blame Me for Housing Woes

Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan denied that the housing problems in the U.S. were due to interest rates being too low during his tenure....
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Mortgage Applications Fall Again

For the fifth week out of the last six, mortgage applications declined, falling 9.3 percent to 461.3 on a seasonally adjusted basis compared to the previous week, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association weekly survey....
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Consumer Confidence Plummets to Lowest Level Since 1992

The Conference Board's consumer confidence index for June tumbled to levels not seen since 1992 at 50.4 in Tuesday's report, led by a near 10-point decline in the present situation component. Economists were looking for a moderate decline to 56.0....
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U.S. Supreme Court Passes on Atlantic Yards

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up an appeal in the fight over Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards project, putting to an end the federal lawsuit filed by landowners and tenants in late 2006 that challenged the state’s use of eminent domain for the mega-project....
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States file lawsuits against Countrywide

Shareholders approve company's takeover by Bank of America...
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Rapper's townhouse to be auctioned

Rapper DMX's Harlem townhouse at 2007 Fifth Avenue will be auctioned on August 13....
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Lawmakers to take last shot at housing bill

President has threatened veto of rescue proposal, but observers optimistic...
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FBI: Hundreds Arrested In Mortgage Crackdown

The FBI says it has arrested about 300 real estate industry players since March -- including dozens over the last two days -- in its crackdown on incidents of mortgage fraud that have contributed to the country's housing crisis....
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Does New York Need a Foreclosure Court?

Judith Kaye, New York’s Chief Judge, is taking the state’s housing woes into her own hands....
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New Yorkers Protest Hefty Increase In Rentals Approved By Rent Guidelines Board

In addition to soaring food and fuel prices as well as a general economic slowdown, a fourth whammy is expected to wallop New York City's apartment dwellers....
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Owner of building files $100 M lawsuit

The owner of a Manhattan building damaged in a deadly crane collapse last month has filed a $100 million lawsuit....
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U.S. housing rebound to be prolonged: Harvard study

Record foreclosures and limited access to credit will make it harder than usual to rebound from this U.S. housing market slump, the worst at least since World War Two, according to a Harvard University study on Monday....
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IKEA feels impact of housing slowdown

Mobs of fans greeted the opening this week of build-it-yourself furniture chain IKEA's first store in New York City - but the fervor is masking shoppers' underlying frugality....
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