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Residential Real Estate
Statistics For 2006
May 8, 2008 - Where home prices are headed next
Want to know what your home will be worth this time next year? Check out these home price forecasts for the 100 largest U.S. markets, from Money Magazine.
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How Foreclosures Will Change The Presidential Election
 We have red states, we have blue states and increasingly we have purple states, beat-up states with substantial and growing numbers of foreclosures, states that may well decide the next presidential election. The foreclosure issue is being politicized because it's too big to ignore and too many people are being impacted. Foreclosures are an emerging issue because they lead to reduced local home values and home values are one of the key measures of personal success. Foreclosures are front-page news, they're affecting financial markets worldwide and for the first time in decades the lending system, foreclosure practices and bankruptcy rules may all be changed. A growing consensus in Washington
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October 13, 2007 - Mass auction reveals depth of foreclosure crisis - By Kimberly Blanton, Globe Staff
The foreclosure crisis in Massachusetts will be on display next month when nearly 300 foreclosed homes will be auctioned in a two-day blitz in Boston.
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October 10, 2007 - Arlington is hottest place in Eastern Mass - By Sacha Pfeiffer, Globe Staff
ARLINGTON - When Dave Stewart put his house up for sale this summer in the midst of a slumping real estate market, he held his breath and hoped for the best. Then the bidding began.
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Real Estate TV Show - "It's Time to Move Up"
April 28th, 2007 - The Realities of Retirement Income - By ScottB
 If there is a mythical god in charge of retirement, it would have to be Janus. Best known as the Roman god with two faces— one looking forward, one back— Janus was the master of beginnings and endings.
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February 13, 2007 - Developer Interest Grows in Downtown Chelsea
CHELSEA, MA-On Winnisimmet Street in Downtown, Capitol Construction of Boston has started demolishing four buildings to make way for an 18,000-sf, three-story, $1.8-million project that in eight months will be home to a new Cinco de Mayo Mexican restaurant. Nearby, at Fourth Street and Broadway, a CVS store with underground parking and two stories of residential units is under construction. Just down the street, a former office and residential building is being turned into apartments.
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If You're Looking
for Real Estate Deals, You've Got It Backward By Steve Cook
I've got an idea for you today that may seem a little counterintuitive. I'm going
to suggest that the best, most experienced real estate investors out there do NOT
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Journal of Financial Planning - An Elegant Road Map to Financial Health and
Retirement.
May 5, 2006 - CNN Money - Welcome to the dead zone - Real estate
survival guide
The great housing bubble has finally started to deflate, and the fall will be harder
in some markets than others.
May 4, 2006 - CNN Money - Who will be hurt most?
During the boom, condos were catnip for would-be tycoons. Now investors are bolting,
developers are slashing prices, and unsold units are piling up.
April 17, 2006 - Nation's Building News - Multifamily Housing
Demand on a Long-Term Upsing
Baby boomer lifestyle changes, immigration, housing affordability and the “non-traditional”
composition of households are among factors that will contribute to robust demand
for multifamily rental and for-sale housing for several decades, according to industry
experts and economists addressing the Pillars of the Industry conference in Phoenix
earlier this month.
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