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06/26/2006 Fidelity National Financial restructures business units
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Fidelity National Financial today announced a restructuring plan that will merge Fidelity National Financial with Fidelity National Information Services, a software and information technology company.
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06/26/2006 Investors less bullish on real estate market
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About 63 percent of surveyed investors expect economic conditions in the U.S. residential real estate market to worsen over the next year, and 32 percent said they believe that home prices will decline in that time, according to the latest UBS/Gallup Index of Investor Optimism.
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06/26/2006 New York real estate sales cool
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Sales of existing single-family homes in New York fell in May from their year-ago level, while the median home price posted double-digit growth, according to preliminary single-family sales data accumulated by the New York State Association of Realtors.
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06/26/2006 Nuclear Family implodes as condo crowd grows
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The Nuclear Family is so 1950s. Jetsons-style high-rise condo buildings are now rising in and around major metro areas, and the buyers of these modern abodes are not the Bradys and the Cleavers.
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06/26/2006 Overnight real estate rates advance
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Long-term mortgage interest rates were up again Friday, and the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond yield climbed to 5.23 percent.
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06/15/2006 Real estate ratings by the people for the people
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A home purchase led Stu MacFarlane to develop InsiderPages.com, a site that features business listings coupled with consumer ratings, reviews and networking.
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06/15/2006 Inflation report hikes mortgage rates
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Mortgage rates increased slightly this week after the latest consumer price report suggested that inflation is still a threat, according to surveys conducted by Freddie Mac and Bankrate.com.
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06/15/2006 CEO: Days of 'arrogant, defiant' Fannie Mae had to end
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Fannie Mae has established a new senior management team, made progress on a financial restatement and changed its attitude, Daniel Mudd, the mortgage giant's CEO, told a Senate committee today.
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06/15/2006 Houston real estate sales jump 11%
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Real estate sales in the Houston, Texas, market grew for the eighth straight month in May as single-family sales and prices broke more records, the Houston Association of Realtors reported today.
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06/15/2006 California coalition to speak out against predatory lending
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A coalition of California groups plans to testify during a Federal Reserve Board of Governors meeting this week about the dangers of predatory mortgage lending, according to an announcement.
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