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Mortgage approvals fall heavily in May (ShareCast)  LONDON (SHARECAST) - The UK housing market continues to deteriorate further as data showed mortgage approvals fell heavily again in May. The Bank of England said 42,000 homes were approved


New Jersey Enters Multi-State Settlement Agreement with Ameriquest Mortgage;  TRENTON - New Jersey has entered into a multi-state settlement agreement with Ameriquest Mortgage Company, the nation's largest sub-prime lender, under which Ameriquest will pay $295 million in restitution to


Real estate resales slow 7% in second quarter (Reg Req'd)  But activity up in 20 states compared to year-ago level The pace of second-quarter existing-home sales slowed 7 percent compared to second-quarter 2005, the National Association of Realtors reported today


A building giant lumbers into town  D.R. Horton aims for No. 1 in hot market With Brevard County having some of Florida's fastest-rising home prices, it was only a matter of time before the nation's biggest


Time's ticking on tax breaks (Reg Req'd)  One of the best ways to ring out the old and prepare for the new is with a quick income-tax checkup before year-end. The waning weeks of December present final


Big Rebukes On Title Referrals    Rigged appraisals, lax underwriting and toxic loans may dominate the headlines, but they are hardly the only issues causing problems in residential real estate. read more...

June 30th, 2006

Bid to build large house declined

A Jacksonville resident who wanted to build a 3,400-square-foot single-family home on a 30,000-square-foot lot on Roscoe Boulevard was denied Tuesday by St.

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June 30th, 2006

Supersized furniture is eating up rooms

Finally, there’s a scale that weight-conscious Americans can do something about: the furniture scale.

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June 30th, 2006

Designs on you

Curious about working with an interior designer? To help demystify the process for those who have an interest but have never tried it, the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers has …

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June 30th, 2006

Big box stores offer the right home decor items at the right price

A fter making some purchases through local Charlevoix small businesses, then going antiquing with my friend Lucia only to decide antiquing is not “my thing,” my next stop in furnishing our new cottage was to …

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June 30th, 2006

Her pretty nurseries work well, too

Who knows best what a baby needs? Mom. Who knows best what a baby’s room needs? A mom of four who’s also an interior designer.

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June 30th, 2006

Ayni to the rescue

Families’ barter group tackles one another’s to-do lists A barter group of six Raleigh families meets once a month to take on one another’s home improvement projects.

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June 30th, 2006

No more sales tax on home remodeling

Scott and Ann Barnett remodeled their Lincoln house one year too early. The project was finished last year when the state was applying sales tax to remodeling projects.

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June 30th, 2006

Spend tax cuts on mortgage, say experts

Home owners could benefit by ploughing the cash windfall from tax cuts into their home loans, ahead of a possible further interest rate rise before the end of the year.

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June 30th, 2006

Lawrenceville Homes Houses for Sale

Lawrenceville Homes Houses for Sale – Gwinnett Realtors – Gwinnett Homes for Sale – Gwinnett RealEstate – North Georgia Real Estate In today’s competitive real estate market, timing is everything.

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June 30th, 2006

Facing the facts about retirement

I’m not going to preach, because Alicia Munnell reminded me – and she’s right – that preaching doesn’t work.

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