"Peter Viles LA Times Wednesday, July 2, 2008 A financial analyst fresh from a tour of construction sites in the Inland Empire is warning Wall Street of a “ghost town” where finished homes sit vacant and additional homes are still under construction. “At several...
More bad news for the US subprime crisis. It may not be a total shock that the number of US home forclosures increased in the first quarter, but the number is truly staggering."U.S. foreclosure filings more thandoubled in the first quarter as payments rose for...
A crash on the 407 Northwest of Toronto has seriously injured two people and closed down the North and South lanes.Police say three people were in a car that apparently hit the median, flipped over and rolled. They...
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Sales of existing homes increased in February and remain within a fairly stable range, according to the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®.
Existing-home sales – including single-family, town homes, condominiums and co-ops – rose 2.9 percent to a seasonally...
Remember when you got your first job and
realized one movie ticket was equal to one hour of work or that a pair
of shoes was an entire workday? Somewhere along the way, many of us
stopped looking at our paychecks as units of time and started focusing
on how much we deposit in...
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Roughly half of metropolitan areas continued to show rising home prices in the fourth quarter of 2007, according to the latest quarterly survey by the National Association of Realtors®.
In the fourth quarter, 73 out of 150 metropolitan statistical areas(1) show...
"WASHINGTON - Sales of new homes plunged last month to their lowest level in more than 12 years, a grim testament to the problems plaguing the housing sector.
The Commerce Department reported Friday that new-home...
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"Three deadly crashes occur on Southern Nevada highways
By DAVID KIHARA
REVIEW-JOURNAL
Authorities suspect alcohol or drugs were factors in three fatal Nevada accidents Sunday morning on Southern Nevada highways, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
The first wreck occurred about...
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Median property tax in Florida is $1,703, the state ranks 22nd in taxes with the median home value of $230,600, taxes contitute 0.74% of Income and the median income for home owners is $53,843. Fisher Island in Miami is the most expensive Zip code in the Country "
I'm fond of pointing out that I'm terrible at math, but this New York Times article (excerpted on freerepublic.com) confuses the heck out of me. It's about how it's mathematically certain that either men or women are...
The New Zealand love affair with the housing market has reached "the morning after" stage. The seemingly unstoppable housing investment boom is finally coming to a slowdown. The median house price in the capital...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorI suppose what begs attention is in a Red Hot economy, where jobs are plentiful, why some choose not to work period, and why the working poor cannot get affordable housing...
"Think of it as a corporate MySpace for Moto Guzzis, or a Facebook for flatheads (Harley flatheads, that is).
Geico insurance company is turning to social networking to drum up business for its motorcycle policies.
At the new Web site MyGreatRides, sponsored by Geico, users...
ALVARADO, Texas (AP) -- A woman led police on a 25-mile high
speed chase until she crashed into a concrete median, killing her
9-month-old daughter in the collision, authorities said.Alexxus
Riza was thrown Friday night from the SUV, which rolled several times
under an...
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"By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer 1 hour, 49 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Sales of new homes bounced back in November and have now posted increases in three of the past four months, a hopeful sign that this year's severe drop in housing may finally be coming to an end....