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		<title>From dreamer to first-time home buyer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the variety of choices available to home buyers and the hope that anxious home sellers will give them a break, some first-time home buyers may be tempted to take on a home purchase as a &#8220;do-it-yourself&#8221; project.
Before jumping into the real estate market, consumers should consider that they are about to make what is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home prices: No relief on horizon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; Home prices have shown few signs of any turnaround, and a new report sees the downward slide continuing.
On Tuesday, Standard and Poor&#8217;s said its nationwide S&#38;P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index fell 3.2 percent in the second quarter, compared with a year ago. For the three months ended June 30, prices dropped 0.9 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Mortgage Mess Unravels, Some Investors Clean Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ By Thomas Heath and David Cho
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, August 28, 2007; Page D01
Joe Robert watched his real estate investment firm&#8217;s stock tumble to five-year lows this month as Wall Street punished any company linked to the mortgage mess. But where others panicked, Robert saw opportunity. From Aug. 9 to 16, he scooped up about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Buyers Forced to Change Tactics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 02:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The credit crunch has turned $417,000 into the magic number for home buyers shopping for mortgages.
Rattled investors have become reluctant to buy loans for more than that amount &#8212; known as jumbo mortgages &#8212; and that in turn has pushed some lenders to raise interest rates. Caught in the middle are potential home buyers who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mosquito busters for your backyard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s summertime, and the livin&#8217; is … buggy. In much of the country, Swat Season is in full swing, and the shelves sag with products that claim to help you survive in comfort.  Unfortunately, most of these items are little better than the pests they purport to defeat, homing in on your desperation like a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home-supply glut pushes stocks lower</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The slumping housing market helped drive the stock market lower today.The National Association of Realtors reported this morning that the supply of homes and condominiums for sale &#8212; measured in months&#8217; supply &#8212; was the largest in 16 years.
The news ended whatever hope investors had for a continuation of Friday&#8217;s rally. The Dow Jones industrials [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home prices drop for fourth straight quarter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; The price of a typical home in the United States continues to drop but at a slower pace, according to a new survey.
During the second quarter, the median single-family home price was $223,800, 1.5 percent less than a year ago, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). It was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homebuilders&#8217; confidence at 16-year low</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; Builders&#8217; confidence in the new home market fell to a 16-year low, according to a trade group survey conducted this month which reports buyers&#8217; problems finding financing spreading beyond the subprime sector.
The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index fell two more points to a reading of 22, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even the Smallest of Loans Has a Price</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 14:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Providing small loans at affordable prices has always been a challenge. The problem is that the cost of originating and servicing a loan is much the same for a small loan as for a large one, but the interest return, based on the loan amount, is smaller on the smaller loan. The obvious remedy, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riskiest U.S. Housing Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 18:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From Forbes.com) 
Those looking to spin the real estate roulette wheel might want to steer clear of Miami. It ranks first on our list of the nation&#8217;s riskiest real estate markets.
There, a high share of adjustable-rate mortgages, high vacancy rates and slumping prices still too elevated for the local populous means should long-term bond yields climb, [...]]]></description>
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