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real estate stories: 128 news summaries

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Home Sales Plunge to
4-Year Low

Inventory glut, rising mortgage rates bode ill for quick rebound

Jun 25, 07 6:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sales of existing homes fell again last month, while the number of homes languishing on the market hit a 15-year high. The median price sank to $223,700, the AP reports, and thanks in part to the woes of the subprime mortgage sector, overall sales were 10.3% below last... More »

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real estate • housing market • subprime mortgages • homes • mortgage • home sales

Top 10 Real Estate Markets

Jun 23, 07 8:24 AM CDT
(Newser) -
  1. Riverside/San Bernadino, CA
  2. Orange County, CA
  3. Las Vegas, NV
  4. Orlando, FL
  5. San Jose, CA
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California • real estate • Washington DC • Las Vegas • homes • Riverside • San Bernadino • Orlando • Orange County • San Jose

Home Foreclosures Hit Record

A dreary real estate market is fueling an all-time high rate of foreclosures

Jun 14, 07 3:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Home foreclosures hit a record high in first-quarter 2007 as more subprime borrowers failed to make their mortgage payments. The number of mortgages entering foreclosure spiked four basis points to 0.58% and over 2.4% of subprime mortgage holders defaulted, up from 2% last quarter, according to a report... More »

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real estate • economic growth • subprime mortgages • Ohio • homes • Michigan • Indiana • foreclosure • mortgage • Mortgage Bankers Association • US economy • borrowers • Great Depression

Largest Oil Spill in US Seeps Under Brooklyn

Exxon owns up to a century of leaks and dumping over 55 acres

Jun 4, 07 5:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - Underneath the ground of Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is a dark blob of gasoline, solvents, and associated poisons that composes the biggest oil spill in US history.  It's accumulated from a century's worth of smaller leaks and waste dumping, reports New York magazine, and ExxonMobil has quietly accepted the blame, but... More »

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cancer • environment • oil • real estate • environmentalism • New York • waste • oil spill • Brooklyn • Newtown Creek • hydrocarbon • ExxonMobil • Greenpoint • bone cancer • chemicals • solvents

Tishman, Lehman Close REIT Deal

$13.5B offer for apartment giant marks major privatization

May 29, 07 11:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - In a penthouse-level play, real estate developer Tishman Speyer Properties and investment bank Lehman Brothers will spend $13.5 billion to buy the nation's second-largest apartment owner. The $60.75 per share offer for real estate trust Archstone-Smith, confirmed this morning, will take the company private in a deal worth... More »

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real estate • merger • business • privatization • acquisition • Tishman Speyer Properties • Lehman Brothers • Archstone Smith • investment banks

Monthly Housing Sales Jump

But prices are way, way down

May 24, 07 2:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - The real estate market had a volatile April, with home sales rising at their fastest rate in 14 years. But the 16% spike in sales over the previous month hid a more complicated reality: New home prices dropped by a record 11%, according to Commerce Department figures released today, and... More »

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real estate • housing market • durable goods • economic indicators • housing • US economy

Home Prices Boom, In
Select Cities

Cities that sat out the bubble are showing gains despite overall slump

May 9, 07 10:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Despite the real estate slump, several cities are seeing double-digit gains in housing prices: Portland, Boise, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Houston, Austin, Charlotte and Raleigh aren't feeling the bubble blues—in part because they missed out on the bubble. More »

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real estate • housing market • housing • growth • US economy

Newmark Brains Scammers

Craig's List founder tracks online
swindlers the old-fashioned way— brainpower

Mar 5, 07 6:20 PM CST
(Newser) - “We are not really that high-tech of a company,” the man who brought classifieds into the Internet age, Craig’s List founder Newmark, tells the New York Observer, explaining why he uses a combo of customer feedback and his own memory—instead of techie solutions like IP-address... More »

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technology • Internet • entrepreneurs • Craig Newmark • online fraud • NYPD • real estate • New York real estate • fraud • Craigslist

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