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Realtors' Forecast Bucks Common Wisdom  "Our view is that prices need to drop further, and that housing activity will hit bottom about the middle of 2008." Bucking conventional wisdom, a trade group for real-estate


Idle Equity? A Reverse Mortgage Could Be the Answer.    Q: DEAR BOB: My husband and I, ages 74 and 77, live in our home worth about $900,000 for which we paid $125,000 in 1978. We have a remaining


Confused by all the Mortgage Options? Here's Help (Benton Evening News)  (ARA) - Fixed rate. Adjustable rate. Interest Only. Flex. All of the different types of home loans that are available these days can puzzle many homebuyers. But, say mortgage experts,


Forbes: Denver 7th-best for home sellers  "Overbuilding and a high foreclosure rate stymie Denver's housing market, which last year saw a 6.3 percent drop in prices" Originally published 11:23 a.m., April 8, 2008 Updated 11:23


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Britainnia warns mortgage market to get tougher (Daily Telegraph)  Britannia Building society has warned that the mortgage markets are set to become more challenging, as lending rates become more expensive and demand from customers slows.read more...

October 21st, 2008

More Job Cuts Expected in Georgia

With Georgia unemployment already above the national average, and with a 78 percent increase in initial unemployment claims, Metro Atlanta and Georgia are feeling the brunt of the economic downturn.



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October 20th, 2008

Home builders’ confidence tanks in October

The doom and gloom mood in the U.S. home building industry worsened in October as fears about credit availability sent the home builders’ sentiment index down to a record low, an industry trade group reported …



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October 19th, 2008

The Parade of Homes is in town

Although new home construction numbers are down nationwidea .Sunday, Parade of Homes had home buildera s busy showing off more than 50 different homes, in more than 30 different neighborhoods.



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October 18th, 2008

Home building keeps falling

The nation is on track to build fewer homes this year than at any time since the end of World War II, adding to the woes of an economy that analysts said Friday has almost certainly entered a recession.



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October 18th, 2008

Kent, Ottawa home building still dropping

Door glass and door treatment manufacturer ODL Inc. promoted Jeff Mulder to corporate president and chief operating officer, the company announced today.



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October 18th, 2008

Woman Turns Harmony Family’s Barn Into A Home

When Shari Thoreson returned to Minnesota in 2002, her siblings suggested she build a house on the farm here where she had grown up.A A Thoreson cared for her ill mother for a time in 2006, and began to take …



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October 17th, 2008

home construction ‘dead’ in R.I.

Tom Santilli has been building homes in Rhode Island for 15 years, but as of late almost all of his attention and that of his 10 workers has been focused on two subdivisions in Connecticut that he’s developing.



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October 17th, 2008

Bush: Credit thaw ‘going to take awhile’ - AP

The government’s drastic economic rescue efforts will eventually pay off, President Bush insisted Friday, offering calming words to anxious Americans but no suggestion of a quick revival as Wall Street braced …



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October 17th, 2008

Man to face fraud charges

A Harrisburg man faces fraud charges in Spring Grove after police allege he stopped a home construction project before completion and was not paying his subcontractors.



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October 17th, 2008

A look at the home building industry

The Associated Press reports that new homes and apartments are being built at a snail’s pace not seen since the recession of 1991, and the pace may dwindle to one not seen since the end of World War II.



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