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09/28/2007 So Close, Yet So Far Away – On Pricing
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If I've heard it once, I've heard a bazillion (which, according to www.AntiMoon.com is an actual English word, but not necessarily a real number) times: "I want to leave in some negotiation room in my price."
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09/28/2007 Credit Freeze Doesn't Guarantee ID Theft Protection
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A credit freeze isn't a silver bullet you can use to take out identity theft.
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09/27/2007 Massive layoffs at discount brokerage Foxtons
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Real estate discount company Foxtons' turbulent ride through the U.S. real estate market is approaching an end.
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09/27/2007 New York gets new real estate listings site
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An online real estate portal launched today by a trade group is cracking open the Manhattan real estate brokerage market for consumers.
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09/27/2007 ActiveRain sues Move Inc. over failed acquisition
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ActiveRain, an online real estate blogging community and social network with about 47,000 members, has filed a lawsuit against property-search giant Move Inc. that seeks millions in damages and alleges that Move broke the law when it backed out of an acquisition plan and launched its own blogging platform.
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09/27/2007 Bill would kill tax on 'phantom income' from foreclosures, workouts
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A bill that would give homeowners facing foreclosure a tax break when lenders forgive part of their debt would make up for lost revenue by collecting more capital gains taxes on the sales of some second homes claimed as primary residences.
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09/27/2007 New-home sales hit lowest level since 2000
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The rate of new-home sales hit a seven-year low in August and reached the lowest level for that month since August 1995, according to a U.S. Census Bureau and Department of Housing and Urban Development report released today.
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09/27/2007 Fixed-rate mortgages more expensive this week
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Long-term mortgage rates continued higher this week on fears that the Fed's recent cut to the federal funds rate would tempt sellers of Treasury bonds to raise their prices, in turn stimulating inflation, according to surveys conducted by Freddie Mac and Bankrate.com.
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09/27/2007 Radar Logic acquires Miller Samuel
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Radar Logic Inc., a data and analytics company that created a home-price index used for derivatives trading, is acquiring residential real estate appraisal firm Miller Samuel Inc., according to an announcement today. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
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09/27/2007 Housing, gas, food put drag on job growth
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The Conference Board today reported that its index measuring the volume of job advertisements in major U.S. newspapers dropped two points in August, marking the fourth straight month of declines.
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