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NEWS ABOUT: single-family homes

single-family homes stories: 2 news summaries
ANALYSIS

$700B Goes a Long Way
in Space—and on Earth

Bailout bucks could fund 7 space stations, pay salaries for 16M teachers

Oct 5, 08 6:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the Treasury Department now in charge of figuring out what holes to plug with its $700 billion in bailout bucks, the San Francisco Chronicle takes a look at what else that money could do. Some highlights:
  • Hire 16,062,414 public-school teachers.
  • Pay the average weekly wages
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education • International Space Station • Iraq war • student debt • Afghanistan war • single-family homes • Hubble Space Telescope

 Surprise! Existing
 Home Sales Jump 

February's 2.9% rise surprises analysts; median price tumbles unprecedented 8.2%

Mar 24, 08 10:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - Existing home sales stunned Wall Street today with an unexpected spike, Bloomberg reports. The metric rose 2.9% in February to an annual pace of 5.03 million. Analysts had predicted yet another decline, to a 4.85 million pace. But one economist said this was only a “temporary... More »

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housing market • foreclosure • condominium • home prices • housing crisis • existing home sales • new-home sales • existing-home sales • single-family homes

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