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11/30/2006 Study Shows Professional Remodeling Cuts Lead Levels
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In the good old days when I bought fixer-uppers, I had to be really careful when stripping old paint from woodwork.
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11/30/2006 Why California's Housing Market Is Out of Sync
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California home prices are out of reach for a historically high number of first-time buyers and the reasons why are key to the housing market's near future.
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11/29/2006 NYC Web portal draws fire from some brokers
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A group of brokers is protesting the process through which the Real Estate Board of New York trade group approved a public home-search Web portal, and is calling for more discussions and a general vote of all brokerage-company members.
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11/29/2006 Newspaper classifieds push to cell phones
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Real estate and other classified ads are going mobile at one
of the nation's newspaper publishing companies under a new service with
CellSigns, which also provides mobile services for real estate property
listings.
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11/29/2006 Florida home sales dive, prices follow
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Florida's resale real estate market cooled further in October, as single-family home sales tumbled for the 11th straight month and prices in many major markets declined, the Florida Association of Realtors reported.
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11/29/2006 New-home sales sink 25% from last year
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The rate of new single-family home sales dropped 25.4
percent in October compared to the same month last year, while the median price
increased 1.9 percent and the average price increased 5.5 percent, the U.S.
Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today.
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11/29/2006 Real estate refinancings fall 9.6%
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Overall mortgage applications last week fell 3.9 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis from the week before, taken lower by a significant decline in refinancings, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association's latest survey.
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11/29/2006 Overnight real estate rates down
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Long-term mortgage interest rates fell Tuesday, and the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond yield dropped to 4.5 percent.
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11/29/2006 Court issues opinion related to DOJ vs. NAR lawsuit
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U.S. District Court Judge Mark Filip, in a 29-page opinion
released Monday, offered a detailed explanation on why he earlier rejected a
motion by the National Association of
Realtors trade group to dismiss an antitrust complaint brought by the U.S.
Department of Justice.
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11/29/2006 California home sales drop 29%
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Single-family home sales in California declined 28.7 percent
in October compared to the same month last year, the California Association of
Realtors reported Tuesday.
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