4 renovations that kill a home’s value
Read a home decorating magazine or watch a cable-TV home improvement show, and you might easily conclude that any upgrade will pay off when you sell. 
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County to Buy Ex-Slave Home Montgomery County has agreed to buy an 18th-century house with an attached log cabin that was once home to a former slave whose autobiography inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel
Newspaper: High mortgage rates four times more likely for blacks (WAVY 10) CHARLOTTE, N.C. A newspaper in North Carolina reports that blacks who bought homes across America last year were four times more likely than whites to get high interest rates for
Bimini Mortgage Management downgraded to neutral (New Ratings) NEW YORK, December 5 (newratings.com) - Analyst Ross A Demmerle of Hilliard Lyons downgrades Bimini Mortgage Management (ticker: BMM) from "long term buy" to "neutral," while reducing his estimates for
Existing home sales plummet by record 8 percent in September; prices down too Sales of existing homes plunged by a record amount in September as turmoil in mortgage markets added more problems to a housing industry in its worst slump in 16
Fire ravages Mac home Kevin and Amy Brewer decided the best way to beat Saturday's scorching afternoon heat was to take their three children and get out of the house.read more...
Refinancing Adjustable-Rate Loans Becomes Harder for Borrowers Homeowners are finding it tough to refinance even as rates climb. One reason: prepayment penalties. But others are getting caught short by a changing housing market. read more...