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Messy Yard Brings Jail Time for SC Woman, Then Help
Filed under: NewsA financially struggling South Carolina woman served six days in jail for having a cluttered yard, then returned to her home Thursday to find several volunteers working to help bring...
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Friday the 13th Special: Real Estate Superstitions
Filed under: NewsBy Camille Salama, Zillow Blog Contributor You may avoid walking under ladders, have never crossed paths with a black cat and have a lucky pair of socks, but have your superstitions...
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The 10 Best U.S. Cities For Families (SLIDESHOW)
Filed under: NewsChoosing where to raise your kids can be a deeply personal decision, based on what you value most, what you can live without, and of course, what you can afford. But some things are...
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House of the Day: Ride Out Armageddon in a Space Station
Filed under: News, Selling This year, the Apocalypse is again predicted to arrive, but you might improve your chances if you throw down $2.95 million on this nuclear-bombproof, Armageddon-resistant,...
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House of the Day: Chateau Is Sight to Behold
Filed under: News We've shown you colorful homes. We've shown you quirky homes. This one ... well, let's just say this one takes all that to another level. This newly-listed, $1.1 million chateau in...
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Federal Reserve Surprised by Housing Bust, Transcripts Show
Filed under: News WASHINGTON -- Ben Bernanke presided over his first meeting as Federal Reserve chairman in March 2006 believing that the nation's economy could pull off a "soft landing" from falling...
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O.J. Simpson Faces Foreclosure on Florida Home
Filed under: NewsMIAMI -- Like tens of thousands of other Florida homeowners, imprisoned former football star O.J. Simpson is in danger of losing his house to foreclosure. Miami-Dade Circuit Court...
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Regis Philbin Sells Greenwich Home After Price Cut
Filed under: News By Erika Riggs After trying to sell his Greenwich, Conn., estate on and off for the past five years, the former TV host has finally sold the home for $3 million, according to The Wall...
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MLK, USA: Many King Streets Stuck on Economic Outskirts
Filed under: News, Celebrity HomesTwenty-six years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was first honored with a holiday, his legacy has flourished -- and not just in the annals of history. Today,...
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Man Surrenders 94 Hamsters to Animal Shelter
Filed under: News He bought just two of the furry critters. A year and a half later there were more than 90 of them, living in fishbowls and Tupperware containers, and causing him to starve himself to...
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House of the Day: Classic Mansion Is a Walk in the Park
Filed under: News You can keep all the shiny white condos and McMansions sweeping Atlanta, because this regal yet classic property embodies everything that we love about real estate. Set on over 10...
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Rick Santorum Took Multiple Mortgages on $2 Million Estate
Filed under: NewsA search of land records for the $2 million Great Falls, Va., home of Republican presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum turns up a series of mortgages that...
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Rental Prices Climb, Buying Remains More Affordable
Filed under: News With home prices still sliding in the wake of the housing bust and credit as tight as ever, rental prices continued to increase at a fast pace this year. Rental prices in the top 20...
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Homebuilder Sentiment Rises to Highest Level Since 2007
Filed under: NewsWASHINGTON -- U.S. homebuilders are growing a little less pessimistic about the depressed housing market after seeing more people say they might be open to buying a home this year. The...
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Housing Market Recovery Forecast for 2012
Filed under: NewsBy Kerri Panchuk Improved employment figures and record home affordability levels could spawn a minor housing recovery this year, analyst Mark Fleming said Wednesday in the "CoreLogic...
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House of the Day: The World's Safest House?
When the British phrase "safe as houses" was coined, this could have been a house they had in mind. This 7,744-square-foot "safe house" in Los Angeles belongs to, and was built and designed by, Al V....
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After Dismal Year, Home Builders See Hope in 2012
Filed under: NewsWASHINGTON -- Builders ended 2011 with a third straight year of dismal home construction and the worst on record for single-family home building. But improvement at the end of the year...
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Report: Down Payment Changes Could Hobble Minority Buyers
Filed under: NewsNearly three-quarters of African-American and Latino mortgage borrowers could be excluded from affordable homeownership if federal regulators approve a proposal to require 20 percent...
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Mortgage Rate Falls to New Record Low -- Again
Filed under: NewsWASHINGTON -- The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell again this week to a record low. The eighth record low in a year is attracting few takers because most who can afford...
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Ice's Advice: What Vanilla Ice Wants Homeowners to Know
Filed under: News, Home Improvement Robert Van Winkle, better known as the rapper Vanilla Ice, shot to fame in the early 1990s with his hit single, "Ice, Ice Baby" -- the first hip-hop single ever to...
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