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	<title>Yuba City, Marysville, and Sutter, CA Real Estate – Thresa Steidlmayer and Team</title>
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		<title>July home sales lowest in 15 years</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES – The end of a popular government stimulus program drove home sales in July to their lowest levels in more than a decade, fueling fresh concerns about the economic recovery.
Home sales fell 27.2 percent from a month earlier, a much bigger drop than expected, as the boost evaporated from a now-expired federal tax credit that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovery in danger as firms, homebuyers cut back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By DAN WAGNER and ALAN ZIBEL, AP Business Writers Dan Wagner And Alan Zibel, Ap Business Writers – 27 mins ago


WASHINGTON – The economic recovery appears to be stalling as companies cut back last month on their investments in equipment and machines and Americans bought new homes at the weakest pace in decades.
Overall orders for big-ticket manufactured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fed, worried about recovery, will buy US debt</title>
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The Fed takes a small step to buy government debt, signaling worry about the recovery



A television screen on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange shows the Federal Reserve interest rate decision, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. The Fed, citing &#8220;subdued&#8221; inflation, said it would keep its target for a key interest rate at zero [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasury to hold conference on Fannie,Freddie</title>
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Treasury to hold conference on future of mortgage funding system next month



Alan Zibel, AP Real Estate Writer, On Tuesday July 27, 2010, 10:02 am
WASHINGTON (AP) &#8212; The Treasury Department, under fire for not developing a concrete plan for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, says it will hold a conference in next month to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nearly $30 million stolen from Homebuyer Credit: report</title>
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Aaron Smith, staff writer, On Wednesday June 23, 2010, 2:03 pm EDT
More than 1,200 prison inmates, including 241 serving life sentences, defrauded the government of $9.1 million in tax credits reserved for first-time homebuyers, according to a Treasury Department report released Wednesday.
Treasury&#8217;s inspector general also found that thousands of people filed multiple claims or made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Falling home prices stir fears of new bottom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[J.W. Elphinstone, AP Real Estate Writer, On Tuesday May 25, 2010, 4:44 pm EDT

Home prices fall 0.5 percent from February to March, raising fears of a new bottom

NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; The housing slump isn&#8217;t over.
Tax credits and historically low mortgage rates have failed to lift home prices so far this year. Prices fell 0.5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loan Aid Leaves Some Worse Off</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by James R. Hagerty
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

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One in four in the government&#8217;s mortgage program is dropped. Here are tales of exhausted savings. 







 
The government&#8217;s mortgage-modification program has left some struggling homeowners worse off than they were before.
The Treasury reported Monday that nearly one in four homeowners who were offered lower payments under the Obama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing market regains momentum</title>
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Source PA News
Updated on 17 May 2010

 
Housing market activity bounced back during March with a 25% jump in the number of mortgages advanced to people buying a property, figures have shown.
Around 45,000 mortgages were lent for house purchase during the month, up from 36,000 in February, according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders.
The increase suggests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>N.Z. Will Spend NZ$1 Billion to Repair Rotting Homes</title>
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By Tracy Withers

May 17 (Bloomberg) &#8212; New Zealand’s government will spend NZ$1 billion ($702 million) over the next five years to help repair rotting homes.
The government will contribute 25 percent of the cost, matched by local councils, to assist home owners repair their homes, Building Minister Maurice Williamson said in an e-mailed statement today. Owners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight of the world&#8217;s strangest houses</title>
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By Brian Clark Howard
As more and more people rebel against ticky-tacky, cookie-cutter homes, options are growing for more unique, satisfying dwellings.
Popular Mechanics&#8216; Chris Sweeney recently created a great list of 18 of the world&#8217;s strangest homes. And though there are arguably some even stranger ones out there (the toilet-shaped home, for one, or the coral [...]]]></description>
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