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IraFreireich

  1. Real Estate Update: Proof You're Losing Money Renting! - dld.bz/bycBC
  2. 4 Not-So-Obvious Things to Research Before Buying a Home - dld.bz/byKpp
  3. Retirees may find they don't qualify to refinance their mortgages - dld.bz/b3ptd
  4. Sales of New Homes Rise in April - dld.bz/b3psz
  5. Top 10 markets for rising list prices. Realtor.com finds list prices up nationwide in March - dld.bz/bycyC
  6. Home Purchase Affordability Vs. Renting at 1990s Level - dld.bz/bzka8
  7. Pending Sales of U.S. Existing Homes Increased 4.1% in March (via Bloomberg News) - dld.bz/bybU9
  8. Why U.S. House Prices Won't Recover. Taking inflation into account, U.S. home prices are down to 1895 levels. dld.bz/byJqe
  9. Subprime Lending Is Back, And That's Not Such A Bad Thing - dld.bz/brz2W
  10. Home Ownership Key to Elections, National Strategists Say - dld.bz/b2jVB
  11. A slowly healing housing market: Spring housing data is encouraging, but this will be a slow recovery - dld.bz/brzza
  12. US home prices slip as foreclosures increase - dld.bz/bycAX
  13. Late Mortgage Payments Fall To Lowest Level Since 2009 - dld.bz/bzuPQ
  14. Restoring your credit scores after filing for bankruptcy - dld.bz/bzKNJ
  15. Fewer Americans form households after recession, hampering economic recovery (via The Washington Post) - dld.bz/byJqn
  16. Housing Affordability Reaches Records (Imagine what home sales would be if lending would return to normal) - dld.bz/b2jVH
  17. Buying a home won't get much cheaper - dld.bz/bzjtY
  18. As if awakening from hibernation, housing starts and home sales moved to higher levels of activity in March. - dld.bz/bq93u
  19. Mortgage delinquencies down over last year and home prices unchanged and remaining at historic lows. - dld.bz/bq9zB
  20. State gov't tax collections increase by $62 billion, suggesting signs of stabilization within local economies. dld.bz/brEWF