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10/19/2007 Overnight real estate rates dip again
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Long-term mortgage interest rates were down again Thursday, and the
benchmark 10-year Treasury bond yield fell to 4.49 percent.
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10/19/2007 Tips to add punch to your Web site
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Virtually all real estate professionals have a Web site -- what can you do to make your Web site stand out from the crowd?
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10/19/2007 Building a brokerage from the Web up
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10/19/2007 Freddie Mac Weekly Survery Finds Mortgage Rates Mixed
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McLEAN, VA -- Freddie Mac (NYSE:FRE) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey (PMMS) in which the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 6.40 percent with an average 0.5 point for the week ending October 18, 2007, unchanged from last week when it averaged 6.40 percent. Last year at this time, the 30-year FRM averaged 6.36 percent.
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10/19/2007 Chilly Blue Notes From the Beige Book
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Across the board, using perhaps the gloomiest language yet this year, realty market sources on the ground around the nation found little cheer in a housing market on the verge of hibernation.
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10/19/2007 Ask Realty Times
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Question: I own two houses and I'm having financial troubles with one. If I can't continue the payments for the second home and the lender ends up foreclosing what could happen to my primary home? Could I lose it?
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10/18/2007 Mortgage troubles showing up in earnings reports
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Turmoil in mortgage and capital markets is showing up this week not only in the third quarter earnings of lenders including Bank of America Corp., Washington Mutual Inc., Citigroup Inc., and Thornburg Mortgage, but mortgage insurers like PMI Group Inc. and online stock broker E-Trade Financial Corp.
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10/18/2007 California new-home sales tumble 45% in August
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California new-home sales dropped 44.7 percent in August compared to the same month last year and the median new-home price dropped 7.6 percent statewide, the California Building Industry Association reported this week.
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10/18/2007 Coldwell Banker launches new valuation, online archiving tools
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Home Tracker, a new online service by Coldwell Banker, allows homeowners who register at the company's Web site to calculate home value based on actual and planned improvements and to archive scanned home records and digital photos.
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10/18/2007 Weekly long-term mortgage rates hold steady
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Mortgage rates were in a holding pattern this week, barely moving from last week's averages, according to surveys from Freddie Mac and Bankrate, despite speeches from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson about the economic effects of the slumping housing market.
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