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Pending home sales rise 5.2% in July

9/2/2010 7:30:10 AM

The number of buyers who signed contracts to purchase previously occupied homes increased in July but remained well below last year's levels, a sign that demand for housing remains weak.

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Contract - Business - National Association of Realtors - Residential Housing - Construction and Maintenance

Builders of N.Y. mosque face financial hurdles

9/2/2010 4:37:00 PM

The developers planning to build a $100 million Islamic center near the World Trade Center site are nearly a quarter-million dollars behind on real estate taxes and late fees.

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World Trade Center - Islam - Real estate - New York City - September 11 2001

Homeowners feel stress of life 'underwater'

9/1/2010 12:43:18 PM

$\"Mike$ A broad swath of homeowners — those not headed for the worst-case scenario of foreclosure — are nonetheless grappling with the impact of lost home equity.

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Foreclosure - Real estate - Business - Investing - Mortgage loan

Banks to allow local groups to buy foreclosures

9/1/2010 9:23:02 AM

Major banks are agreeing to give local governments and nonprofit groups the ability to buy foreclosed homes before they are sold to private investors.

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Foreclosure - United States - Local government - Non-profit organization - Real estate

Ever so humble, but housing is more expensive

8/31/2010 11:13:14 AM

You look back 10 years, what did you get? A little bit cleaner and deeper in debt. With apologies to Tennessee Ernie Ford, that’s a brief synopsis of how U.S. home life has changed during the past decade.

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United States - Tennessee Ernie Ford - Tennessee - Government - Shopping

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