Lower interest rates could offer some financial buoyancy for those looking to refinance before they get in over their heads.
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To hear the national media tell it, homebuyers are fools to buy right now. Home prices have dropped 5 percent since October 2006. Our economic problems aren’t over, so home prices are bound to drop further. Why would anyone catch that falling knife? But there are some markets out there that are making monkeys out [...]

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For months, Sheila Bair, head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, has been saying that there’s an instant solution to the mortgage meltdown that can prevent massive numbers of foreclosures. Not a perfect solution, but a solution.
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Last week, I came across an article discussing another new online start-up — this time a Universal MLS. The founder of this start-up stated that his vision for a new breed of MLS is based on his belief that real estate agents and brokers will inevitably play a “lesser role” in real estate transactions as [...]

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