WSJ - Latest News

• Jefferson Davis's Refuge in South Rises Again
• Pension Funds Watch Fannie, Freddie
• New York's 9/11 Site Needed a Logue
• In a Slow Market, Builders Offer Big Incentives
• Learning to Embrace the Change Order

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• Hedge Funds Help Fill a Gap
• Citigroup Veteran Takes Apollo Job
• Housing Market Still Under Pressure
• FHA Raises Premiums for Home Loans
• S&P Cuts Mortgage-Insurer Ratings
• Fresh Powder for Ski Towns
• China to Alter Insurers' Rules
• Housing Recession Just Builds
• Mortgage Fraud Jumped 42% in Year
• Home-Price Watchers Hope Drop Slows

washingtonpost.com - Real Estate

• Existing-homes sales rise, inventory swells
• When Cutting the Price, Take a Big Bite, Not a Bunch of Nibbles
• Appraisal Problems Worsened Meltdown
• Appraisers, Still Feeling Pressure
• Neighbors, Boats, Bayfront Summers And a Reverence For Tradition

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• A Worthy Read to Get Serious About Estate Planning
• Mortgage Shopping, Incognito
• Professional Tests Can Uncover Exposure to Lead
• Chat Plus
• Searching for A Hot Investment? Try Your Mortgage.
• Winners and Losers As Loan Fees Change
• A History of Welcoming Newcomers
• Weak Market Creates Advantages for Lower-Income Buyers
• A Stunning Work of Art, but Who's the Artist? You May Never Know.
• Chat Plus
• Your First Negotiation: the Agent's Commission
• A Throwback To the McLean Before the Bustle
• Mortgage Crisis Reaches Resorts
• Sometimes, It's the Agent Who Wants to Break Up
• Tax Break on Capital Gains Narrows
• Foreclosure Crisis Catching Renters Off Guard
• No time to design the ballroom or choose the fountains? $17.5 million gets you a ready-made mansion today . . .
• Chat Plus
• They're Townhouses, But 'This Isn't a Townhouse Feeling'
• For Rebound Renters, a Few Things to Remember
• All Signs Point to Confusion
• New Tax Credit Amounts To a Free Loan for $7,500
• The Extreme Reality Makeover Show
• Decorating for Dollars
• Finding a Moral in One Developer's Story
• Mass-Produced Homes For Individual Tastes
• Welcome the Breeze But Not the Bugs
• A Fertile Tradition of Living Off the Land
• Successful Sellers Know How to Think Like Buyers
• Tax Relief, Sans Itemizing
• Foreclosures and Short Sales, Equal Ills
• In Architectural Design, Brains and Talent Trump the Best Software
• Occoquan's Old-Time Charm Outlasts Calamity
• Adapting Community Design to Anticipate Trends
• A Look at Congress's Long-Promised, Long-Delayed Mortgage Relief
• Chat Plus
• Keep Your Energy Dollars From Going Up in Smoke
• A Break From the Yard In Suburban Maple Lawn
• Keeping Closer Tabs On Brokers
• What It Takes to Create a Community
• Anonymity Carries a Price at New Zillow Site
• Help for Homeowners Hangs in the Balance
• To Sell to Gen-Y, You Have to Meet Them Online
• A Realization in Fairfax About Traffic and Housing
• Chat Plus
• Mailbox: Condo Coercions, Short Shrift on Short Sales and Testing the Bath
• A Garden Haven With a Storied Past
• Storied Historic Homes Suddenly In Dire Straits
• Freshening an Old Listing, and Other Tips for Worried Sellers
• When Condo Wars Heat Up, Common Sense Can Evaporate
• Chat Plus
• Out-of-Whack Appraisals Lead to a Dispute Over the Deposit
• Lessons of Arlington's Urban Development Needn't Be Just History
• FHA Calls for an End To Seller-Funded Down-Payment Charities
• Gardener's Paradise Built for Growing Families
• The Bubble
• Where Short Sales Stumble
• Chat Plus
• Equity Losses Aren't Felt Evenly
• Room to Roam, and Float, in Anne Arundel
• Understanding Your Credit History Is the First Step Toward a Higher Score
• In the U.K., a Different Standard For Broker Transparency
• Pouring Cash Into the Bath
• Never Pay In Advance To Fix Your Credit
• For Modern Whimsy, A Reach Back to Towers and Turrets
• Understanding Insurance, Spotting Predators
• A Chance to Make a Real City Out of Tysons
• Overcoming the Noisy, the Dirty And the Just Plain Eerie
• Its Name Lacks a 'Park,' but Not Its Vibe
• Chat Plus
• As Disputes Escalate, So Can the Legal Bills
• Resting on a Peninsula, With Little Pretense
• The General's Gem
• An Alarm System For Inaccurate Credit Scores
• It's a Bonus, Not Blackmail
• Slim Pickings for Buyers Without Cash for a Down Payment
• A New Way to Tackle Foreclosures
• Water Everywhere, and Yet Home Prices Shrink
• Chat Plus
• Born of Need, Shaped by Nurturing
• Don't Overlook the Kitchen Exhaust
• Looser Credit on the Way In 'Declining' Markets?
• When an Appraisal Just Doesn't Add Up
• Real Estate Calendar
• A Look Into the Past, at a Man Who Helped Build the Future
• The Hurdles on the Way to a Better Insurance
• For First-Time Buyers, Tempting Prices but Tougher Rules
• Contractors From Heaven ... or Hell
• Getting Easier to Get Big Loans
• Contractors From Heaven . . . or Hell
• Drawing Attention Away From a Tiny Back Yard
• Chat Plus
• Twentysomething, College-Educated And Moving Back In
• No Cookie-Cutter Community: Bayberry Believes In Dirt, Difference
• At FHA, a Surprising Result Underpins a Big Change

Birmingham Business News - Local Birmingham News | Birmingham Business Journal

• Wachovia sells branches to American Realty for $53M
• Alabama only state named to top technology list
• Input sought for traffic improvement plan on I-65
• Credit union savings outpace lending
• Bradley Arant expands construction practice in Mississippi

• BB&T's longtime CEO to retire
• PricewaterhouseCoopers donates $1M to UA
• FDIC's 'troubled banks' list grows
• JeffCo Commission terminates Slaughter's services, eyes bankruptcy
• Decatur firm joins industrial park near Honda plant

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SmartMoney

• Top 5 Mistakes Home Sellers Make
• Top 5 Retirement Mistakes to Avoid
• Digging Out of Medical Debt
• Top 5 Keys to Retiring Early
• Top 5 Times to Haggle for a Better Deal
• Top 5 Cheap Ways to Make a Car More Fuel-Efficient
• Slideshow: 5 Least Expensive Cars to Own
• Slideshow: Future Hybrids
• Top 5 Ways to Cut Back on Air Conditioning
• What IndyMac's Meltdown Means for Consumers

BubbleMeter

• New Home Sales Fall 35% YoY
• S&P/Case-Shiller Q2 2008 Home Price Indexes Fall Again
• Yun Interview
• Housing Optimists at Morningstar
• Homeowner-Oriented Magazines Going Under
• 9th Bank Failure of the Year
• We're Not in a Recession
• Weak Economy Hurting Rental Real Estate
• New Movie about the U.S. National Debt Opens Today
• Warren Buffett on Housing: "We had a very, very big bubble."

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• Presidential Candidates Attack Each Other Over Their Houses
• McCain unsure how many houses he owns
• Housing Bust Punishes Home Depot
• America's Most and Least Affordable Cities
• Investors Dump Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Stock
• Cassandra
• One Quarter of Home Sales are Below Original Purchase Price
• Bubble Sphere Roundup
• Banks Taking Bigger Losses on Foreclosures
• OMG!
• Former Treasury Secretary on Housing Outlook
• Déjà Vu All Over Again
• American Southwest Real Estate Prices
• Housing Pain Continues to Spread Overseas
• Discredited: Alan Greenspan

Paper Economy Blog

• Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey – August 27 2008
• S&P/Case-Shiller: June 2008
• Existing Home Sales Report: July 2008
• Collapsedachusetts Existing Home Sales Preview: July 2008
• The Almost Daily 2¢ - I.O.U.S.A
• Follow The Leader: Index of Leading Economic Indicators July 2008
• Philadelphia Feeling: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Business Outlook Survey August 2008
• Mid-Cycle Meltdown?: Jobless Claims August 21 2008
• Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey – August 20 2008
• New Residential Construction Report: July 2008

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• Realtor’s Follies (Sold!)
• Homebuilder Blues: NAHB/Wells Fargo Home Builder Ratings August 2008
• U.S. Invasion: U.K. Home Prices July 2008
• Production Pullback: Industrial Production July 2008
• Confidence Game: Consumer, CEO and Investor Confidence August 2008 (Early)
• Recession Era Rations: Food Stamp Participation May 2008
• Mid-Cycle Meltdown?: Jobless Claims August 14 2008
• Conspicuous Correlation: Retail Sales July 2008
• Reading Rates: MBA Application Survey – August 13 2008
• Economic Jolt: Job Openings and Labor Turnover June 2008
• The Almost Daily 2¢ -Twin Peaks?
• The Almost Daily 2¢ - The Next Three Shoes
• Pending Home Sales: June 2008
• NARcasting The Future: August 2008
• Mid-Cycle Meltdown?: Jobless Claims August 07 2008

Home mortgage rates and real estate news - CNNMoney.com

• 2M borrowers avoid foreclosure
• Unlocking your home equity
• Housing fix backfires
• Mortgage volume rises
• New home sales rise, but grim news lurks
• Home prices plummet in a new record
• Five-fold jump in Thornburg profit
• These homes for sale suck
• Mortgage fraud still soaring
• Existing home sales rise, but prices still sinking

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• Housing: Frank talk from Barney Frank
• IndyMac borrowers to get relief
• 10 easy ways to green your home
• Falling home prices: The silver lining
• Fannie, Freddie: Plunge then rebound
• Mortgage rate fall to 6.47%
• Home building at 17-year low
• Tax credit for home buyers comes with caveats
• Where home prices are headed next
• Latest home prices - first quarter

Mortgage News Daily - Mortgage And Real Estate News

• Bankruptcy Filings Near 1 Million Mark, Up 29% on the Year
• Mortgage Rates Drop Slightly but Loan Applications Way Down from 2007 Levels
• FDIC's Problem Bank List Continues to Grow
• Wednesday's Events: German Inflation Data; U.S. Durable Goods, Oil Inventories
• MBA Mortgage Applications Move Down in Week Ending August 22
• Fed's Lockhart Says House Prices May Fall Another 15%
• Meeting Minutes Say FOMC's Stance Remains Neutral
• Lower Gas Prices Drove Rebound in U.S. Consumer Confidence Survey
• Some Economists Find "Cheery Quality" to U.S. New Homes Sales Report
• Freddie and Fannie Buck Market Trend

Inman Blog

• The medal round of the Real Estate Olympics has begun. . .
• Nominate Finalists for the Real Estate Olympics
• Inman.com Gets a Make Over
• Share your Inman profile with others by using retaggr
• Real Estate Connect Videos are now Live!
• The significance of the moment is lost
• Inman Poll: Will Fannie and Freddie tap new credit line?
• Connect SF '08 might be over, but the discussion continues. . .
• Follow along with all of the action from Day 1 from Connect SF '08
• Reflections on Bloggers Connect