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		<title>NAR Hails Bill to Hasten Lender Response to Short Sale Requests</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington, September 16, 2010
Homeowners who are underwater with their mortgage may find that relief is on the way from a bill strongly supported by the National Association of Realtors® that would impose a deadline on lenders to respond to short-sale requests.
The legislation, H.R. 6133, “Prompt Decision for Qualification of Short Sale Act of 2010,” was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Las Vegas Real Estate Posts 2009 Positives Despite Recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney</dc:creator>
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According to newly released statistics, the hard-hit Las Vegas real estate market is poised for a comeback. Data compiled by the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors
(GLVAR) and the locally-based real estate firm Prudential Americana Group show that approximately 95,000 transactions, or an estimated 47,500 home sales, were made there in 2009.
Mark Stark, CEO of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Sales Are Unlikely To Have A Real Impact On The Housing Market</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 2010 expected to bring an increase in the number of distressed home sales, and new federal regulations coming into effect, it is expected that the number of short sales will increase significantly. Still, experts believe that short sales will have limited impact on the housing market since most banks remain resistant to accepting offers they perceive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lenders are hard-pressed to keep up with the demand of short sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sean Sposito/The Star-Ledger
Thinking he’d found a cheap vacation home, Louis Pallante in April bid $300,000 for a fixer-upper in Toms River.
And then he waited to hear from the seller. And waited. After finally learning six months later that his offer had been rejected, he upped his bid to $315,000. But before he could close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alternate Theory to Pending Home Sales Plunge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Seeking Alpha Blog
I love the book Freakonomics, by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. I love the way it explores the questioning of questions, and the incentives that back them. And I was impressed by the way it compels readers to proactively uncover higher truths by unlocking the right combination of words that comprise the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pending home sales fall 16 percent in November</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney</dc:creator>
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WASHINGTON – The number of buyers who agreed to purchase previously occupied homes fell sharply in November, a sign sales will fall this winter, undermining last summer&#8217;s recovery.
The report Tuesday indicates consumers are taking their time following the extension of a tax credit deadline. The incentive of up to $8,000 for first-time buyers was set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Latest Home Price Data Is Good News for Buyers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homes are now cheap.
No, not everywhere in the country (more about that later). And, even after the latest Case-Shiller data, it&#8217;s anyone&#8217;s guess when they might actually turn around and start rising steadily again. It could be years.
But if you&#8217;ve been thinking of buying a home to live in, the current meltdown is a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage rate hikes seen as poison to home sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jay Fitzgerald  &#124; 						  Tuesday, December 29, 2009
   The Massachusetts housing market may be facing a new challenge next year: higher mortgage rates that could hobble the fragile housing recovery now under way.
Morgan Stanley and Freddie Mac have issued warnings about rising mortgage interest rates, which are now hovering in the 5 percent range [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luxury Homeowners in U.S. Use ‘Short Sales’ as Defaults Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Homeowners with mortgages of more than $1 million are defaulting at almost twice the U.S. rate and some are turning to so-called short sales to unload properties as stock-market losses and pay cuts squeeze wealthy borrowers.
“The rich aren’t as rich as they used to be,” said Alex Rodriguez, a Miami [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Biggest Real Estate Flops of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Courtney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The high-end real estate market hit new lows this year as multimillion-dollar properties failed to attract buyers even after huge discounts.
by Jason Notte
New-home sales rose 24% and pending home sales jumped 32% in October from a year earlier, but estates with wine cellars, infinity pools and servants&#8217; quarters saw their prices drop 7%. Basketball star [...]]]></description>
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