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More refinancers, but overall mortgage demand drops as rates rise (USA Today)  Mortgage applications fell last week, reflecting a drop in demand for home purchase loans, as interest rates climbed, an industry trade group said Wednesday.read more...


Mortgage rates end six-week run (CNN Money)  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Mortgage rates were mixed this week, with the 30-year fixed rate falling slightly, Freddie Mac said Thursday.read more...


Land prices push developer in new direction  Big Sky Development, a local firm responsible for $175 million worth of projects over the last dozen years, is shifting its core business from development to general contracting, due to


GREEN SCENE QUIZ ANSWERS    RATE YOUR KNOWLEDGE: If you had all correct, you could host your own garden show. One to three wrong makes you the neighborhood horticultural guru. Four to six incorrect


Sector Wrap: Mortgage REITs (AP via Yahoo! Finance)   Shares of mortgage real estate investment trusts carved out 52-week lows Thursday as a spate of negative housing news spooked investors and deepened concerns that the housing slump is


Freddie Mac's top accounting officer leaves (Reg Req'd)  Takes job as WaMu corporate controller Thursday, October 27, 2005 Inman News John Woods leaves Freddie Mac Freddie Mac's top accounting officer has left to become the corporate controller at

June 29th, 2008

Needed in Eden Prairie: Astronomy buffs with cash

I truly appreciate the Kohrs’ donation and any subsequent donations to house this magnificent telescope.



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June 27th, 2008

KB Home’s quarterly loss widens in housing slump

KB Home’s latest quarterly results capped a week of discouraging trends for the home building sector Friday.



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June 26th, 2008

Westchester cites 98 contractors for working without licenses

Westchester County continued to play tough with unlicensed home building contractors, issuing tickets to 98 of them during a five-week investigation, the county’s consumer protection director said yesterday.



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June 26th, 2008

Westchester cracks down again on unlicensed contractors

Gary Brown said the department’s inspectors conducted more than 570 inspections at work sites from early May through the first week in June.



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June 25th, 2008

Home builders event offers survival strategies

The nation’s housing market is in worse shape than anytime in more than 50 years, Harvard researchers said this week, and things are particularly bleak for most new-home builders.



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June 25th, 2008

Couple buys schoolhouse for $20,000

Joseph and Angela Baldwin successfully purchased the Wade School yesterday and now plan to build a home around the one-room schoolhouse.



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June 23rd, 2008

One day auction set for Neumann Homes properties

Twenty-six new homes and 23 partially completed homes are slated to be sold in an upcoming auction for a bankrupt home-building company.



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June 21st, 2008

Renewed: a licence to shatter lives

THE millionaire horse breeder Larry King had his builder’s licence renewed just seven weeks before Beechwood Homes collapsed, leaving thousands of consumers, employees and tradespeople stranded.



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June 21st, 2008

Building a Home Theater in Your Basement

Movie theaters make millions of dollars per year showing movies. So what if you brought that action to your own home? Maybe you have a basement in which you have no clue on what to do with it.



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June 19th, 2008

67 from Chicago area charged in U.S. mortgage fraud probe

Federal authorities in Chicago Thursday afternoon announced charges against 67 people in a mortgage-fraud investigation with national reach.



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