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- State budgets lean on property sales, leases
- The Arizona House of Representatives’ office, one of the buildings the state is considering selling as part of a sale-leaseback program to raise cash, would cost a private owner more than $18 million. Lawmakers would continue to occupy the…
- Stateline
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Stateline- Option ARMs: Housing recovery killer?
- Additionally, some newer loans, where accumulated interest has pushed the loan-to-value ratio above 110% to 125%, will also reset. That means borrowers are about to start paying very hefty prices for their homes. In one scenario outlined in…
- CNN Money
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CNN Money- Mom befriends wife of PTSD vet charged with murder
- HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — When the envelope arrived, Windy Horner was talking with her husband, Nick — Windy on a cell phone, Nick in the Blair County jail. Windy did not recognize the return address. She feared hate mail; her husband is…
- Gather.com
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- 1 hour ago
- 2 in 5 Jacksonville mortgages under water
- ... their house is worth, is much higher than the 23 percent national average, but below the 45 percent of homeowners under water in Florida. The sunshine state had the third highest percentage of homes under water. Nevada ranked first with…
- Jacksonville Business Journal
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- 32 minutes ago
- US bankruptcies rise 33 pct in Q3, most since 2005
- NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. bankruptcy filings rose 33 percent in the third quarter to the highest number since 2005, government data show, as rising unemployment and tight credit made it more difficult for consumers and businesses to stay…
- CNN Money
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- 9.1% of Triad properties ‘underwater’
- More than 9 percent of homeowners in the Winston-Salem and Greensboro-High Point area owe more on their mortgages than the house is worth, according to a study released this week. According to Santa Ana, Calif.-based data and real estate…
- Greensboro Business Journal
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- 37 minutes ago
- BUYINS.NET: KBH, LGND, FRX, SPF Are Seasonally Ripe To Go…
- was founded in 1956 and is based in New York, New York. Standard Pacific Corp. (NYSE: SPF) operates as a builder of single-family attached and detached homes in the United States. The company also provides mortgage financing and title…
- TMCnet
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- 5 minutes ago
- Palin Suggests Reforming Canada's Universal Health Care…
- Canadian comedian Mary Walsh (playing the character of Marg Delahunty) attended a Sarah Palin book signing in the United States last week and asked the "thrilla from Wasilla, the Alaskan Aphrodite" if she had "any words of encouragement for…
- AlterNet
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AlterNet- Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund President Peter J. Birnbaum…
- CHICAGO, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Attorneys' Title Guaranty Fund (ATG) President, Peter J. Birnbaum, was elected to the 2009-2010 Board of Governors of the American Land Title Association® (ALTA®) at the association's annual convention at…
- Biloxi Sun Herald
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- 2 hours ago
- Drywall investigation expands into US products
- ... Products ... new samples of U.S. drywall, new samples of the Chinese material and Chinese wallboard from problem homes. The scientists found that most of the new U.S. samples released sulfur fumes, but at a lower level than the Chinese…
- AOL
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