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09/20/2006 Overnight real estate rates fall
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Long-term mortgage interest rates were down Tuesday, and the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond yield dropped to 4.73 percent.
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09/20/2006 Technology provides competitive edge
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Editor's note: In this four-part series, Inman News examines the effect of the housing slowdown on everyday real estate business. We've asked brokers and agents what they are doing differently with marketing now that listing times are longer, how they are keeping an edge, and how a slowdown may or may not be impacting commission rates. (Read Part 1 and Part 2.)
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09/20/2006 CoreLogic mines data to predict lending hot spots
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There's a new one out every week, it seems: a report showing an alarming increase in foreclosures in a city or region particularly hard hit by the slowdown in the housing market.
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09/20/2006 Zillow hands data keys to homeowners
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Real estate Web site Zillow.com is allowing homeowners across the United States to update information about their homes currently displayed at the national site.
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09/19/2006 Discounters, new agents add pressure to home-sale commissions
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The majority of real estate agents in a recent survey said that home sellers are more likely to negotiate commission rates today than a year ago, and that companies offering discounts have had the most impact on their sales commissions in the last year.
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09/19/2006 Southern California home sales plunge 25%
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Home sales in Southern California fell for the ninth straight month in August, as price levels appeared to be nearing a plateau, a real estate information service reported today.
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09/19/2006 Risk of home-price declines increases
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Rapidly slowing home-price appreciation and declining affordability contributed to a marked increase in the risk of home price declines in cities across the country, according to a report released today.
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09/19/2006 Home builder confidence slips further in September
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The nation's home builders once again showed lower confidence in the single-family home market, reflecting increasing concerns about overall housing conditions, according to the latest poll released Monday.
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09/19/2006 New real estate construction plummets in August
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The rate of privately owned single-family housing starts fell about 20.6 percent in August compared to August 2005, while total housing starts dropped about 19.8 percent, the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reported today.
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09/19/2006 Online job ads up 10%
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New online job ads across the United States increased to 2.57 million in August, with New England leading the growth, according to The Conference Board Help-Wanted OnLine Data Series, released today.
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