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- Buy a Home in San Diego, Get Another One Free - Heck of a Deal
  Posted by gmc1 from Yahoo News!
  A San Diego developer who is desperate to clear inventory, is offering perspective home buyers a 'buy one - get one free scheme to move properties. With the housing market in the tank, it is taking some creative measures to move real estate.
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- Domestic abuse increases chance of trouble finding homes, study says - Examiner.com
  Posted by wolftrust from Gallatin News Examiner
  Disclosing victim status could mean being denied that housing is even available. Women strong enough to flee their homes and their abusive situations were more likely to be denied housing outright, something that did not happen to people not disclosing. In the study, 65 percent of domestic violence victims were subjected to at least one form of discriminatory treatment.
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- Progress in Ballard
  Posted by Jeff from crosscut.com
  A homeowner who didn't sell ends up being built around. This is progress in Seattle. Bizarre.
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- UW study: Rules add $200,000 to Seattle house price
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Interesting article on sprawl vs. preserving community and nature. Housing may be cheaper in Houston or Atlanta...must I would never want to live in those cities.
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- The social toll of the US home mortgage crisis
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  Home foreclosures in the US have reached near-epidemic scope and scale. In Detroit, there was one foreclosure filing for every 97 households in July alone, according to RealtyTrac.com, the largest database of foreclosed properties.
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- The bear turns global
  Posted by SoxFirst
  The fallout from the US mortgage mess continues to hurt the US market and beyond. Clearly, issues once specific to the US are now flowing through to other markets as banks force borrowers to sell assets and investors scramble away from risk. And it will get worse.
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- The Subprime Bait and Switch
  Posted by Damianmann from In These Times
  The hope for subprime boosters was that such loans would allow the mortgage industry to continue business as usual while at the same time meeting government mandates for fair and affordable housing.
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Jeff comments on:
Progress in Ballard

Something tells me this house won’t be around too long.

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4:00 pm 4/15/08

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