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02/05/2008 Real estate advertising franchise grew in 2007
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Real estate media company Homes & Land grew its franchise division by 7.5 percent to 340 franchises in 2007, the company said today.
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02/05/2008 Yahoo up, MSN down in latest Hitwise real estate site rankings
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Yahoo Real Estate jumped four places in the ranking of most-visited real estate Web sites since December to number three on the list in January, behind second-place HomeGain.com and consistent leader Realtor.com, according to a report released today by Web metrics company Hitwise.
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02/05/2008 Nightly real estate rates increase
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Long-term mortgage interest rates rose Monday, and the
benchmark 10-year Treasury bond yield held grew to 3.65 percent.
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02/05/2008 Industry vet banks on lender-branded property sites
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A feed of multiple listing service-based property information to lender-branded Web sites may appear to be a direct conflict with the National Association of Realtors' battle to keep national banks out of the real estate brokerage business.
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02/05/2008 Bush proposes modest increase in HUD budget
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The Bush administration proposes scaling back or eliminating six Department of Housing and Urban Development programs to save $1.6 billion, while boosting the department's overall budget by $1 billion, to $38.5 billion.
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02/04/2008 Foreclosure problem too large to be ignored
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The credit crunch and plague of home foreclosures are too large to be ignored, said representatives for a liberal think tank who today detailed plans for a new program that draws from the Depression-era Home Owner's Loan Corp.
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02/04/2008 Banks tighten lending standards at record pace
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More banks tightened standards on residential and commercial real estate loans during the final quarter of 2007 than at any time in the 17-year history of the Federal Reserve's quarterly survey of loan officers.
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02/04/2008 Sacramento tops list for home-price declines
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Home prices fell in 20 of 25 U.S. metro areas in November compared to the same period in 2006, according to a housing market report.
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02/04/2008 'Capital disruptions' stifle commercial, multifamily loans
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Commercial and multifamily mortgage bankers' loan originations sank by double digits in the fourth quarter of 2007 when compared to a year earlier, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported today in a quarterly survey.
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02/04/2008 Miami Realtor's condo blog landed him a job -- for 5 weeks
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Miami Realtor Lucas Lechuga's popular blog on Miami's tumultuous condo market helped him land a position as an associate at one of south Florida's most prestigious real estate brokerages.
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