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<description><![CDATA[Up until now, state efforts to help distressed homeowners refinance have had negligible results. A new federal bill may give them additional tools.

   
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<description><![CDATA[Many investors who purchased condo hotel rooms during the real-estate boom are wishing they hadn't. Some frustrated owners are bringing these projects to the attention of regulators.

   
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<description><![CDATA[Before you redo your home make sure you know how big a renovation you can afford and how long you will remain in your residence.

   
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<description><![CDATA[Local governments are acting more aggressively to help homeowners avoid foreclosure, frustrated by what they view as the federal government's inadequate response to the mortgage crisis.

   
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<description><![CDATA[Lenders that make loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration are adding costs and restrictions that make those mortgages more expensive for consumers and less widely available.

   
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<description><![CDATA[In a backlash against vinyl-clad McMansions developers are creating communities with houses that look like they were built centuries ago, but with modern trappings.

   
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<description><![CDATA[It's not always easy to get an accurate sense of how many foreclosures there actually are and which U.S. locales are the hardest hit. June Fletcher explains why.

   
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<title>Power of Staging</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Washington Post Profiles Professional StagerWhile professional stager Lyric Turner admits that she's making less money as a professional stager, she's having a lot more fun doing it.Anyone who has a flair for color and spacing can be a potential stager, but there's no Coldwell Banker of staging or Bachelor's Degree of staging that you can get that will give you credibility. Either you can do it or you can't. Certainly a few months as a regular real estate agent might help you establish some street cred in the marketplace, but no certification is required.Ms. Turner generally charges $5,000 to $6,000 for two months to stage a vacant three bedroom house. Considering that most people are probably looking at a $10K reduction in price if they can't find a buyer, that money is most likely well worth it. She also does consultations for as little as $250.At the same time, I've noticed on HGTV's "Get It Sold", they generally reduce the price first and then stage the home, so it seems like a bit of a bait and switch -- but sellers who have given it a shot on their own are probably likely to try almost anything to get their homes sold. However, on that show, they are usually spending $1,000 or so, so it's not really costing the buyers anything, and on at least a few shows, I've seen a bidding war break out, so they end up getting higher than the list price.&nbsp; Staging also seems to be more effective in condos and town homes that are basically the same. If you are looking to sell your home for top dollar, you may want to ask your agent about working with a stager, or see if one of your friends is an aspiring stager. Maybe they can reorganize your space for free and start building their own portfolio.For More on Staging Your Home.  Tags:                               staging, dc, real estate]]></description>
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<title>Two Years of Housing Doom</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Housing Doom Blog Celebrates Two Year AnniversaryFor you johnny-come-latelies of the housing "correction," these guys have been covering it day and day out for the past two years. Not sure what the exit strategy is for a blog called Housing Doom, but maybe they are buying all these foreclosure properties cheap and just keeping their fingers crossed.A dedicated blog team that deserves more recognition.Tags:                                                                   housingdoom, anniversaries, real estate]]></description>
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<title>Power of the Suburbs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Economist Looks at Levittown, Strength of the U.S. SuburbsThought this was an interest "briefing" by our friends across the Atlantic at the Economist and their increasingly U.S. based readership. Particularly this chart, which shows that the almost absurd level of growth in the suburbs from 2000 to 2006. Defying stereotypes about "houses made of ticky tacky" you can see the large influx of diversity. What is not shown, but is mentioned in the article, is the influx of same-sex couples into the suburbs. "Between 1990 and 2006 the city of Chicago added 50,000 residents,
reversing a long decline. Not bad -- but in the same period the sprawling
metropolis outside the city proper grew by well over a million."While you may hear a lot about how great downtown living is, or how cities are offering more of the modern conveniences, at least until now, that has really not been the case in most American cities. However, was surprised the Economist did not take the story one step further, and examine how the rising gas prices and foreclosures may hurt the suburbs more than the cities, by making proximity to public transportation more compelling. While foreclosures may be an inconvenience in a city like Boston or New York, they are devastating to suburban markets such as Stockton, Ca., and other Western exurbs. So, while this article did a great job of showing the power of suburbs in the last half decade, one can only wonder if things are already changing, or will it just be more of the same.Tags:                                                           suburbs, real estate, economist aoljurlAdd, aoljurlAdd_1]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[New Yorker Essay Says Ownership Ties People/Economy Down"In the U.S., it may be worth noting, the states that have the highest
unemployment rates—states like Alabama, Michigan, Mississippi—are also
among those with the highest homeownership rates. ... And reluctance to move not only keeps unemployment high in struggling
areas but makes it hard for businesses elsewhere to attract the workers
they need to grow."This essay does a great job of calling out the biggest downside to homeownership -- increased difficulty in relocating. Particularly in an area where one of the mainly employers suddenly lays off a significant portion of the workforce, the housing market is going to be flooded with homes for sale, valuations are going to drop, and owners will be forced to choose between selling at a loss, foreclosure or making the payments on a home with income they don't have. At the same time, there is a lot more affordable housing in the United States than there are in places like Switzerland (mentioned in this article). Renting may not be a particularly viable option in rural areas where most homes are owner occupied, but you could see a scenario where the main breadwinner in a family might rent an apartment in another city as the rest of the family continues to live in the home they own.In fact, NPR's Marketplace did a piece on Canadians from the eastern part of the country who spend most of the year in the mining towns of western Canada's providences, because they want their children to grow up somewhere completely geographically seperate from where they live. This is not uncommon in other parts of the world.Of course, there's also no socialized medicine in the U.S., so owners for the most part need employment to be able to provide medical care for their families.While this article raises some great issues, it probably doesn't do as much to suggest solutions, besides curbing our enthusiasm for ownership, which may be too little, too late.Tags:                                             new yorker, ownership, renting]]></description>
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<title>How You Look at It: Markets Since 2003</title>
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<description><![CDATA[18 Out of 25 Markets Are Up Since 2003; 7 Are DownThe Wall Street Journal and Radar Logic put together this graphic to illustrate the price per square foot in 25 major cites from 2003, 2005 and 2007 (2008 data not available yet.) On the main page, the number you see is the year prices were the lowest. So if you see a blue square for 2007, that would be bad, because that means prices are lower than they were in 2003 or 2005. No cities are green, ergo the prices in 2005 were always higher than either 2003 or 2005. Out of the 25 cities, seven, or slightly less than a third, show price depreciation since 2003 per square foot. Four of these cities are in the Midwest, including Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit and St. Louis. The other three are Denver, Boston and Sacramento. So, the question from my perspective is, if you were told you had a 66 percent chance of your home being worth more in four years than it is was when you bought it in 2003, that seems like a pretty good bet, doesn't it? If you take Detroit out of the mix, the odds actually go to 6 out of 24, so you had a 75 percent chance that your house would be worth more after four years. If you bought in 2005, you probably aren't happy in some of these cities, but if you expected to show a profit on your home after two years, that just hasn't been the case historically. I suggest wait another year or two, rent your house out if you need to, and read this article about lowering your property tax assesmentI'm hearing a lot about how bad things are in Miami, but this graphic has prices up 40 percent from 2003 to 2007, although down 10% from 2005. In Atlanta, you have a market that has barely changed, with prices rising 1.2% from 2003 to 2007. So, some much appreciated historical perspective on how we got where we are.Tags:                                           housing, real estate, valuations]]></description>
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<title>Checks in the City: A Fractional Resurgence?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fractional Ownerships Marketed in NYC, Paris, Etc.At AOL Real Estate, we've looked at fractional ownership in the past. Possibly because buyers are less likely to want to cover multimillion dollar condos as a pied a terre or second home, this post discusses opportunities to "own" a portion of the weeks in luxurious condo-hotels such as the St Regis in Manhattan. Particularly for euro-toting foreign buyers that visit U.S. cities on a frequent basis (say six or eight times per year), this seems like an interesting idea. "St. Regis
rolled out their fractional development in 2006 on several floors of
their midtown hotel. There are studios, and one- and two-bedroom units
for $300,000 to $750,000 a share with 28 days of use a year."  For example, if you try to get a three or four star hotel room in Manhattan during certain weeks of the year, such as right before the Christmas holidays, you can expect to pay three to five hundred dollars a night if not more, so a week is costing you $2,100 to $3,500 as it is. At the low end, you can probably get some nights for $200. So 28 nights a year at $200 a night is $4,800, and $14,000 at the $500 level. If you financed that over 30 years, a $300,000 fractional at $10,000 per year plus interest starts to look reasonable for four weeks a year, plus assume there's at least some resale value. As the post calls out, there can be a lot of fees involved, so at some point just getting a normal hotel room may be more reasonable, assuming my math hasn't bored you to tears.Plus, most of us have better things to spend $300,000 on. Tags:                                                                                                       fractional ownerships, st regis, nyc, timeshares]]></description>
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<title>Real Estate TV Shows Stay Hot as Markets Cool</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Several New Real Estate Reality Programs Indicate Ratings Are Still ThereHappened to catch an episode of Property Ladder last night where the flippers went over budget by about 200%. They still ended up making about $100K on their sale.According to this AP article, HGTV had it's highest rates every in January, with nine of it's top 10 shows being about real estate:"Nine of its top 10 series deal with the housing market, including
"House Hunters," "My First Place," "Hidden Potential," "Buy Me" and
"Design to Sell." The network did a special Feb. 29 theme day of
"taking the big leap," or investing in that first house."On the one hand, this may just indicate that with the writer's strike, people who normally would be watching "The Office" or "Lost" were watching more cable shows instead of repeats. I watch HGTV as much or more then the next person, and I think three of the those five shows are pretty lame.At the same time, it's not like HGTV in particular has a lot of choice
in their subject matter, since Home is in the name of the channel.Also, it's not like HGTV's advertisers are going to be very happy if they start running shows called "I Want to Keep Renting" or "Too Broke to Redo My Kitchen."One show that was pretty interesting, Bravo's "Million Dollar Listing," seems to have fallen off the radar, and some of these "flipping" shows are as much about the personalities as they are about investing in real estate. Is "Hell's Kitchen" a cooking show, or is it really a show about a cook who happens to be kind of a jerk. On some level, same thing with "American Idol." Tags:                                                                                reality tv, real estate, flipping]]></description>
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<title>New Loan Limits</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Thanks to CNBC's Diana Olick for this HUD post that allows you to check the limits in your area:http://www.hud.gov/offices/adm/hudclips/letters/mortgagee/08-06ml.docTags:                                                                                          hud, higher loan limits, jumbo loans]]></description>
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<title>Are DC Sales Up or Down?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Close to Home: One Study Finds DC Sales Up, Index Says Down"... , home prices in D.C. fell 9.4% in December according to the
Standard &amp; Poor’s S&amp;P/Case Shiller Home Price Indices report,
which tracks sales of the same homes over time and is generally
considered to be the best measure. But John McClain, senior fellow and deputy director for the Center
for Regional Analysis, said the multiple listing service data is
sometimes more accurate in a down market."One commenter calls out this home inventory link, which shows prices down less than 2 percent in the last month, but with inventories rising almost 10 percent. Certainly one expects inventories to rise some what on a seasonal basis as the D.C. market enters the peak spring selling season, and a 2 percent price dip isn't too bad, but what seems clear from the report is that prices are way down in some areas like Prince William County&nbsp; and Loudon, and flat or only down slightly in other areas. ("In Prince William County, home prices dropped 25% in February compared
to a year earlier. And prices fell 12.3% during the same period in
Loudoun County.")In a word, the market is certainly frothy, which is probably better than stagnant.   Tags:                      dc, real estate]]></description>
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<title>First-Time Buyer Questions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Do you think that you have to have two full-time incomes in order to afford a 
home these days? Would you look at alternative sources of income, such as 
renting out a room or take a second job in order to keep up with rising housing 
costs?Post Your ThoughtsAre you worried that some senior citizens may not be able to afford to keep 
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<title>HUD SECRETARY AND MAYOR MCCRORY ANNOUNCE $10 MILLION LOAN GUARANTEE TO CHARLOTTE</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced that he is approving a $10 million loan guarantee to the City of Charlotteto purchase 70 acres in the Double Oaks neighborhood. This purchase will complete the site assembly of 98 acres in preparation for the eventual development of 108,000 square feet of retail space and 940 new apartments, condominiums and single-family homes.]]></description>
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<title>HUD AWARDS $19.3 MILLION IN HIV/AIDS HOUSING GRANTS TO 18 LOCAL PROGRAMS NATIONWIDE</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - They are extremely low-income, living with HIV/AIDS and at high risk of homelessness.  Today, more than 1,100 persons and their families will find a stable home, and receive the services they need to manage their illnesses, because of $19.3 million in grants awarded by Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston.]]></description>
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<title>SECRETARY PRESTON AND GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER ANNOUNCE $105 MILLION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN CALIFORNIA</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced that the California State Program will receive more than $105 million to support community development and produce more affordable housing in the GoldenState. HUD's annual funding will also provide downpayment assistance to first-time homebuyers; assist individuals and families who might otherwise be living on the streets; and offer real housing solutions for individuals with HIV/AIDS.]]></description>
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<title>HUD AWARDS $1.4 MILLION GRANT TO L.A. TO &#x27;CONNECT&#x27; PERSONS LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS WITH PERMANENT HOUSINGT</title>
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<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES - U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced that the City of Los Angeles will receive $1.4 million to provide a permanent home to dozens of persons living with HIV/AIDS and their families.  HUD's grant will help clients find a stable home and receive the services they need to manage their illnesses.   Preston made the announcement following a tour of Laguna Senior Apartments that also provides supportive housing to low-income senior citizens living with HIV/AIDS.]]></description>
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<title>HUD CHARGES NEW YORK LANDLORDS WITH DISCRIMINATING AGAINST A DISABLED RESIDENT</title>
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<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON - The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced today that is has charged the owners and board of directors of an apartment building in Rockville Center, New York, with housing discrimination for refusing to allow a woman with disabilities to keep a pet for emotional support.]]></description>
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<title>Roof Repair Basics: How Your House Works</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The common denominator in all roofing is that several layers work together as a system. Understanding how this system works can help you talk knowledgeably with a contractor, or help you make buying decisions to do your own work.
  

     
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<description><![CDATA[The new house at 310 W. Lake Avenue in Auburndale, Fla. has "custom-built" written all over it, but it was created in 90 days...far shorter than the eight months it should have taken. We chronicle the construction of Country Living's 2006 House of the Year, a jewel that showcases the fact that modular homes have finally arrived.
  

     
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<title>It Worked For Us - Jan. 2005</title>
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<title>Home Tips &#x26; Hints: November 2004</title>
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<title>Home Tips &#x26; Hints: October 2004</title>
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<title>Home Tips &#x26; Hints: September 2004</title>
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<title>Home Tips &#x26; Hints: August 2004</title>
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<title>Home Tips &#x26; Hints: July 2004</title>
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<title>Home Tips &#x26; Hints: June 2004</title>
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<title>Home Tips And Hints: June 2003</title>
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<title>Home Tips And Hints: May 2003</title>
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<title>Home Tips And Hints: April 2003</title>
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<title>Home Tips And Hints: March 2003</title>
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<title>Home Tips And Hints: February 2003</title>
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