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	<description>Your guide to real estate</description>
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		<title>Mortgage Interest Rate Report</title>
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Mortgage Rate News
Interest rates have continued to drop since mid October with the average 30-yr fixed rate mortgage recently dancing just around 6%.
Analysis
It&#8217;s a mixed bag. There&#8217;s no way around the negative impact that flat home prices, cutbacks in new homes construction and ever-decreasing consumer spending continue to have on the overall economy. Manufacturers have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is home staging?</title>
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Having a home staging it will help a homeowner to sell it quickly for the most amount of money by appealing to the largest amount of prospective buyers is one of the goals.  In making a home staging it will make the house have the potential by transforming it into a â€˜neutralâ€™ property because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerging real estate trends</title>
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San Francisco ranks fifth in the nation as a location for real estate development and investment, according to a national study released Thursday in San Francisco.
The City lost out to top-rated New York City, which was deemed the most desirable metropolitan area to invest in development and real estate in the nation, according to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Existing home sales could hit 5-year low</title>
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Realtors forecast for year sees the outlook worsening in 2008
WASHINGTON &#8211; Sales of existing homes in the U.S. are forecast to decline to a five-year low in 2007, a trade group for real estate agents said Tuesday, and the outlook for 2008 is worsening.
The ninth-straight downwardly revised monthly forecast from the National Association of Realtors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Existing Home Sales</title>
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Home Sales Pace Summary
Existing home sales in September dropped another 1.2% totaling a whopping 10% overall drop since end of August.
The seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 4.97 million homes is the lowest seen by the National Association of Realtors since they began tracking the combined sales of single-family units + condos in 1999.
The largest drop in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://realestateguideblog.com/report/existing-home-sales-december-report/</link>
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		<title>My credit score</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, you&#8217;ve seen on the internet or on the dailies your dream house? Well, don&#8217;t jump the gun too fast. Before you get a mortgage for that dream house of yours, you have to know first your credit score. Yes, the dreaded credit score.

The worst credit score is about 300 while the best ranges around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real estate commissions rise</title>
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; During the housing boom, home sellers were in the driver&#8217;s seat with real estate agents courting them &#8211; often at bargain commission rates. But now that the bubble has burst, the tables have turned.
In 1991, the average commission rate was 6.1 percent, according Steve Murray, of Real Trends, which tracks the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Before Really Buying Condo Insurance</title>
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Before you purchase a condominium policy, check with your condominium association to make sure you&#8217;re buying the insurance you need.

Find out what parts of the interior are covered by your condo association&#8217;s insurance and what items are your responsibility. Then make sure that you have adequate insurance to cover repairing or replacing the items for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://realestateguideblog.com/buying/before-really-buying-condo-insurance/</link>
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		<title>Fence-sitters.</title>
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Naturally, when you buy something in the market (no, I&#8217;m not referring to the grocery store near you, but the bigger market), it&#8217;s called an investment. When you&#8217;re investing on something, it actually calls for luck since it only has two to ways to go: up or down. Just like the stocks, real estate can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still hitting bottom</title>
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With the economic downfall, it is a fact that the prices of houses have been hit rock bottom for the past months and the prices of goods and commodities have skyrocketed, making almost everyone a pauper in their own respect. Goods have recorded a total of 1.4% increase last month while home prices still continue [...]]]></description>
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