May 31st, 2009
Foreclosed property blights many Florida neighborhoods as vines entangle empty houses and tall weeds turn once prim yards into eyesores.
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May 31st, 2009
After surviving one of the mortgage lending industry’s toughest years, Dallas-based TexasLending.com plans to add more than a hundred employees as it positions itself to take advantage of the boom in refinancings amid expectations of a housing market recovery within the next 18 months.
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May 31st, 2009
To stamp out some of the fraud that happened during the heydey of the housing boom, a new code of conduct has created a new breed of middle man.
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May 31st, 2009
ST. PETERSBURG — A homebuilder closely associated with a company that abruptly stopped constructing houses in early 2007 has filed to liquidate under Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection.
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May 31st, 2009
TAMPA — Two residential towers downtown have Greg Minder’s signature. And when the market turns for the better, there could quickly be a third.
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May 31st, 2009
The troubled Lembi real estate empire has put 12 San Francisco apartment buildings up for sale at prices well below what it paid for the properties in 2006 and 2007.
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May 31st, 2009
Just six months into the job, Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition President Matthew Franklin was facing a major crisis.
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May 31st, 2009
The Bond, a 104-unit luxury apartment building, will officially hit the market June 1, the latest project conceived in Oakland’s housing-boom years but delivered into the depths of the bust.
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May 31st, 2009
A healthy concept hailing from South Korea is making inroads into the Alamo City.
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May 31st, 2009
A rule that grew out of a lawsuit settlement in New York is set to change the way mortgage brokers and lenders in Hawaii do business with real estate appraisers.
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Hurricane could devastate shaky real estate market
