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		<title>Less Experienced Realtors Leaving The Industry</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/05/31/less-experienced-realtors-leaving-the-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 18:52:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Realtors&#8217; median gross income dropped 14 percent in 2008, to $36,700, forcing many less experienced Realtors to leave the business, according to a survey by the National Association of Realtors.
NAR&#8217;s 2009 Member Profile showed the median age of Realtors rising from 52 to 54 and average years of experience increasing from eight to 10.
The survey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Home Sales Prices Down 20%</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/05/28/arizona-home-sales-prices-down-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 23:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you bought a home in Arizona five years ago, you&#8217;ll probably be able to get only slightly more than you paid for it if you try to sell it now.
New figures from the Federal Housing Finance Agency show that the average purchase price of a home in Arizona dropped almost 20 percent in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Saving Downtown&#8217;s Santa Rita Hotel</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/05/27/saving-downtowns-santa-rita-hotel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/05/27/saving-downtowns-santa-rita-hotel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 18:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the 1970s, many Downtown Tucson buildings, including the 1917 Santa Rita addition, were covered with layers of stucco and new facades, obscuring their original designs.
Today, many of these buildings are being &#8220;excavated&#8221; and restored to their earlier glory. For example, many of the original details of the Compass Bank at 120 N. Stone were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Tucson Investment Properties Near the University</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/04/20/finding-tucson-investment-properties-near-the-university/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jsears</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreclosures, short sales, HUD homes, and seller carrybacks
This is a Buyer&#8217;s market in Tucson and homes near the U of A bring in between $400 and  $500 per month per bedroom. If you want to invest but are nervous about it, the  U of A area is a captive market. The only living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Initiative To Cut Property Taxes Launched</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/03/10/initiative-to-cut-property-taxes-launched/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:28:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An initiative drive launched Friday could give Arizonans a chance to cut their property taxes.
Dubbed Prop 13 Arizona, the measure would roll back the assessed value of homes and businesses to what they were in 2003, before speculators helped spike prices. Those rising sales prices, in turn, boosted the tax assessments of everyone else in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>$1B Lawsuit Filed on First Magnus Executives</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/03/08/1b-lawsuit-filed-on-first-magnus-executives/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/03/08/1b-lawsuit-filed-on-first-magnus-executives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The $1 billion lawsuit filed last week against First Magnus&#8217; executives is filled with wild and outlandish allegations, former First Magnus Vice Chairman Thomas Sullivan Jr. said.
During an hour-long meeting Thursday at First Magnus&#8217; former headquarters — which is now leased to StoneWater Mortgage, a company started and run by former First Magnus executives — [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage Rates Take a Hike On Up</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/02/26/mortgage-rates-take-a-hike-on-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/02/26/mortgage-rates-take-a-hike-on-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mortgage rates, which were around 5% in the beginning of the year, are now taking a hike on up to the mid-5&#8217;s. The interest rates over the past week, while home prices and home sales took a drop.
So this is how it&#8217;s looking right now.

15 year fixed rate = 4.93%, it was the same last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pending Home Sales Rise In December</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/02/06/pending-home-sales-rise-in-december/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/02/06/pending-home-sales-rise-in-december/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nosediving home values and low mortgage rates pushed homebuying levels higher in December. The index for pending home sales measures the number of sales contracts signed each month. It rose 6.3% in December (87.7), after a drop of 4% in November (82.5).
Uncertainty with the housing market still causes fear with buyers and sellers, even with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Things To Consider For Home Loans Today</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/02/05/3-things-to-consider-for-home-loans-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/02/05/3-things-to-consider-for-home-loans-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to shopping for new mortgages, it&#8217;s a different ball game today. There have been numerous changes over the past few years when we&#8217;re talking about mortgage borrowing.
Subprime loans, which is partially responsible for the housing boom, are no longer available. And mortgages that didn&#8217;t require borrowers to show proof of income, those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tucson Short Sales</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/28/tucson-short-sales/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/28/tucson-short-sales/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to Tucson short sales, here is the truth, simple and plain, cut and dry. You can find yourself a marvelous Tucson home, in all price ranges, because ALL types of homes have been affected by the terrible economy. You can look on the market today, and there are plenty of short sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financing Your Tucson Home</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/20/financing-your-tucson-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/20/financing-your-tucson-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy and the credit crunch has made it hard for prospective homeowners to get a loan, and the ones who have only small amounts for down payments have it even harder. But it&#8217;s not impossible  to acquire a low down-payment loan. The Federal Housing Administration is offering a 3.5% down payment loan option for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tucson&#8217;s Grant Road: Definitely Widening</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/16/tucsons-grant-road-definitely-widening/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/16/tucsons-grant-road-definitely-widening/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The council has voted, and with a vote of 6-1 (despite the opposition from the community), the widening of Grant road has been green lit. The $166 million dollar project will start in 2013 and will last for 5 years, making the 4 lane artery running east and west 6 lanes wide.
We&#8217;re going to see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008: An Overwhelming Year Of Foreclosures</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/15/2008-an-overwhelming-year-of-foreclosures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/15/2008-an-overwhelming-year-of-foreclosures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[861,664 families have lost their homes to foreclosure in 2008, and 3.1 million foreclosure filings were issed also. So one out of 54 households have received a notice. Quite overwhelming.
The foreclosure prevention programs implemented so far have been a band-aid on a large, open gash&#8230; Decembers foreclosure filings were 17% above the number in November, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looks Like It&#8217;s Time To Refinance</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/14/looks-like-its-time-to-refinance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/14/looks-like-its-time-to-refinance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past 5 and a half years, last week (the first full week of January 2009) had the largest number of loans being refinanced due to the record low mortgage rate. The low mortgage rates, unfortunately, have not spurred home purchases though. But hey, it all has to start somewhere!
The highest index number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fannie Mae &amp; Freddie Mac Giving Borrowers More Time</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/13/fannie-mae-freddie-mac-giving-borrowers-more-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/13/fannie-mae-freddie-mac-giving-borrowers-more-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have extended a moratorium, launched on December 15, 2008, on foreclosure suspensions for another three weeks, so mortgage servicers will work on postponing any foreclosures or eviction proceedings until the 31st of this month.
The two mortgage giants have projected that homeowners would avoid bank repossession and eventually qualify for mortgage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing, Now, To Be A Part Of The Stimulus Package</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/10/housing-now-to-be-a-part-of-the-stimulus-package/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/10/housing-now-to-be-a-part-of-the-stimulus-package/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve seen bailouts happen for the financial industry and for the auto industry, but none for the housing market. But that is slowly changing now. Real estate is 16% of our nation&#8217;s economy, and thankfully, it&#8217;s getting attention in Washington to receive financial assistance.
What&#8217;s on the table as of now for the housing market
Homeowners to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage Rates Fall To An All-Time Low</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/09/mortgage-rates-fall-to-an-all-time-low/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2009/01/09/mortgage-rates-fall-to-an-all-time-low/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since 1971, today&#8217;s mortgage rate on a 30 year fixed is the lowest ever. The rates have fell down to 5.01%. This is incredible news for able first time buyers and seasoned investors. It has been falling each week for the past 10 weeks.
Last year at this time, a 30 year fixed rate was 5.87%, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Worst Real Estate Markets For 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/12/22/10-worst-real-estate-markets-for-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/12/22/10-worst-real-estate-markets-for-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listed below are the 10 worst real estate markets in the United States, with 8 being in California, predicted for 2009. 8 in one state, huh? That&#8217;s an incredible hit; almost 25% of a projected change? That&#8217;s pretty serious. Arizona, with it&#8217;s foreclosures stacking up in Phoenix, is still a valuable investment. With the scare [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tucson, Golf, All Year Round</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/16/tucson-golf-all-year-round/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/16/tucson-golf-all-year-round/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 17:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to Tucson, the sun shines more than 95% of the year. And when the northeast becomes cold in September, Tucson is at its greatest. When I say cold, I mean, BRRR, it&#8217;s cold out!
It&#8217;s November and the weather is at the mid-60s in the early morning, and it gets to about 80 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDIC&#8217;s Bair Pushes Aggresive Mortgage Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/14/fdics-bair-pushes-aggresive-mortgage-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/14/fdics-bair-pushes-aggresive-mortgage-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 22:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a surprise move, FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair Friday unveiled details of her plan to have the government help delinquent homeowners.
There are two key elements to the proposal.
First, housing payments for delinquent borrowers would be reduced to 31% of gross monthly income.
To get there, mortgage rates could be set as low as 3% for five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Builders In Tucson Going Green</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/14/builders-in-tucson-going-green/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/14/builders-in-tucson-going-green/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting between two local television journalists at a recent press conference, and I couldn&#8217;t help but listen in on their conversation.
&#8220;What did you do Saturday?&#8221; asked one handsome face of the other.
&#8220;I covered the Green Festival.&#8221;
&#8220;Uhh!&#8221; the first handsome face retorted. &#8220;I am so sick of all that green stuff!&#8221;
If it hadn&#8217;t occurred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Day For Public Input On Grant Road Is Monday</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/14/last-day-for-public-input-on-grant-road-is-monday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/14/last-day-for-public-input-on-grant-road-is-monday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday is the last day to comment on the city&#8217;s proposed Grant Road alignment for widening the thoroughfare to three lanes in each direction between Oracle and Swan roads.
Construction on the three-phase project is not to begin until at least 2013 and will last through 2026.
The construction phases will be from Oracle to First Avenue, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Benefits From The New Fannie-Freddie Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/14/who-benefits-from-the-new-fannie-freddie-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/14/who-benefits-from-the-new-fannie-freddie-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mortgage giants Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac may back 30 million mortgages. But that doesn&#8217;t mean that the new foreclosure prevention program announced this week by the Bush administration will rescue every troubled borrower on their books.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which took control of Fannie (FNM, Fortune 500) and Freddie (FRE, Fortune 500) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage Rates Down For Second Week</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/13/mortgage-rates-down-for-second-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/13/mortgage-rates-down-for-second-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mortgage rates fell for the second week in a row, finance firm Freddie Mac said Thursday, as the weakening economy resulted in the slowest pace of home purchase applications in nearly eight years.
Freddie Mac said 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.14% this week. That&#8217;s down from 6.20% last week and below the 6.24% rate at this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosures In October Jump 25% From Last Year</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/13/foreclosures-in-october-jump-25-from-last-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/13/foreclosures-in-october-jump-25-from-last-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As government and industry scrambled to stem the housing crisis, another 84,868 homes were lost to foreclosure in October, according to a report released Thursday.
Last month 279,561 struggling borrowers received foreclosure filings, including default notices, notices of auction sales and bank repossessions, according to RealtyTrac, an online marketplace for foreclosures. That&#8217;s a 5% increase from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Hearing Spotlights Mortgage Rescue Plans</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/12/house-hearing-spotlights-mortgage-rescue-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/12/house-hearing-spotlights-mortgage-rescue-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Barney Frank, chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services, highlighted the need for a bailout program for troubled homeowners on Wednesday. But he stressed that not all borrowers should necessarily be rescued.
&#8220;Diminishing foreclosures is an important part of getting out of this [financial crisis],&#8221; said Frank, D-Mass., in an opening statement at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Mortgage Plan Falls Short</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/12/us-mortgage-plan-falls-short/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/12/us-mortgage-plan-falls-short/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The federal government&#8217;s plan to streamline modifications of troubled loans held by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac won&#8217;t help the majority of people threatened with foreclosure, experts said.
Under a plan unveiled Tuesday, homeowners whose loans are owned or backed by the mortgage finance companies and who are at least 90 days behind can enter a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Might Widen Foreclosure Help Program</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/12/us-might-widen-foreclosure-help-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/12/us-might-widen-foreclosure-help-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government may let more borrowers qualify for a $300 billion program designed to let troubled homeowners swap risky loans for more affordable ones, a top Bush administration official said Wednesday.
The program, included in a housing bill passed by lawmakers over the summer, was launched Oct. 1. But there are concerns that lenders won&#8217;t participate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Number Of First Time Homebuyers Increasing</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/12/number-of-first-time-homebuyers-increasing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/12/number-of-first-time-homebuyers-increasing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Low home prices and excess supply helped drive a rise in first-time U.S. home buyers and reduce excess inventory, according to a study released Saturday by The National Association of Realtors.
According to the survey, which was released at the 2008 Realtors Conference &#38; Expo, the number of first-time buyers rose to 41 percent from 39 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Breed Of Investors In The Housing Market</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/12/new-breed-of-investors-in-the-housing-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/12/new-breed-of-investors-in-the-housing-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Falling prices and rampant foreclosures are not the stuff of healthy housing markets. But to some real estate investors, the dismal market can signal that it is time to invest.
So what if cities like Phoenix and Las Vegas have regularly appeared on RealtyTrac’s list of top 10 foreclosure markets quarter after quarter? Or if the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 2008: Pending Home Sales Fall</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/11/september-2008-pending-home-sales-fall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/11/september-2008-pending-home-sales-fall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Homebuyers pulled back some more in September amid turmoil in the financial markets.
The Pending Home Sales Index for the month fell 4.6% to 89.2 after climbing 7.4% in August, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). Still, the index was up 1.6% from a year ago.
NAR said the dip in sales was tempered by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s New Mortgage Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/11/americas-new-mortgage-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/11/americas-new-mortgage-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bush administration on Tuesday unveiled a new program to modify mortgages and stabilize the battered real estate market, but the plan stops short of providing direct government financial help to at-risk homeowners.
The plan centers on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which between them own or back about 31 million mortgages worth a combined $5 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage Rates Fall</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/11/mortgage-rates-fall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mortgage rates fell this week amid a pullback in consumer spending and a weaker job market.
Mortgage finance firm Freddie Mac reported Thursday that 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 6.20% this week. That&#8217;s down from 6.46% last week and below 6.24%, the rate at this time last year.
Even though interest rates were slightly lower this week, rates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mounting Job Losses Now Fueling America&#8217;s Foreclosures</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/11/mounting-job-losses-now-fueling-americas-foreclosures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/11/mounting-job-losses-now-fueling-americas-foreclosures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years, bad loans and their aftershocks have been sending homeowners into foreclosure. Now it&#8217;s lost jobs that are putting troubled borrowers over the edge.
As the economy tanks, unemployment is the major factor driving a much larger proportion of foreclosures now than in the earlier stages of the mortgage meltdown.
In June, 45.5% of all delinquencies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Citi To Modify $20 Billion In Home Loans</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/10/citi-to-modify-20-billion-in-home-loans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/10/citi-to-modify-20-billion-in-home-loans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Citigroup says it will expand its foreclosure prevention efforts and try to keep 130,000 troubled borrowers with $20 billion in mortgages in their homes.
The news follows similar initiatives announced earlier this year by IndyMac Bank, which was seized by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. last summer, as well as Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Estate Forecast 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/09/real-estate-forecast-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/11/09/real-estate-forecast-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget the old saw that all real estate is local. What&#8217;s pummeling housing prices in your nabe is the same thing that&#8217;s hurting them around the country: the credit crisis.
You know the drill &#8211; banks&#8217; troubles have made it harder for many home buyers to get mortgages, and those who do qualify have to pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Existing Home Sales Rise In September, Prices Drop Almost 10% From Last Year</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/24/existing-home-sales-rise-in-september-prices-drop-almost-10-from-last-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/24/existing-home-sales-rise-in-september-prices-drop-almost-10-from-last-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sales of existing homes rose in September, but prices continued to drop, according to the latest reading on the battered housing market by an industry trade group released Friday.
The National Association of Realtors reported that sales by homeowners jumped in September to an annual pace of 5.18 million, up 1.4% from a year ago. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosures, Foreclosures, Foreclosures&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/23/foreclosures-foreclosures-foreclosures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/23/foreclosures-foreclosures-foreclosures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The housing crisis still has a choke hold on America: In September, 81,312 homes were lost to foreclosure, according to a report released Thursday.
RealtyTrac, an online marketer of foreclosed properties, said that 851,000 homes have been repossessed by lenders since August 2007.
In September, 265,968 troubled borrowers received foreclosure filings &#8211; such as default notices, auction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Buyer&#8217;s Market Is Now</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/10/the-buyers-market-is-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/10/the-buyers-market-is-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:07:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dow has shed thousands of points and the global economy is in crisis.
So who wants to buys a house right now? Not many people as it turns out.
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) for instance has seen its contract cancellations spike recently to as high as 30%, compared with an average rate of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage Rates at 5.94%, The Lowest In The Past 3 Weeks</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/09/mortgage-rates-at-594-the-lowest-in-the-past-3-weeks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/09/mortgage-rates-at-594-the-lowest-in-the-past-3-weeks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rates on 30-year mortgages fell from last week, while loan applications grew slightly in the face of turbulence in the banking and finance sectors.
Mortgage finance firm Freddie Mac reported Thursday that 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 5.94% this week. That&#8217;s down from 6.10% last week and well below 6.40%, where the rate stood a year ago.
&#8220;Longer-term [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCain: His Words Are Sweet, But His Intentions Are Evil</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/08/mccain-his-words-are-sweet-but-his-intentions-are-evil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/08/mccain-his-words-are-sweet-but-his-intentions-are-evil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 21:12:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under a mortgage rescue plan announced at the debate Tuesday night by Senator John McCain, much of the burden of paying to keep troubled borrowers in their homes will shift to taxpayers.
If you watched the debate last night, you know that McCain&#8217;s words were sweet. He called us his &#8220;friends&#8221; after every two sentences, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Countrywide Financial Mortgage Carriers: Important News</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/07/countrywide-financial-mortgage-carriers-important-news/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/07/countrywide-financial-mortgage-carriers-important-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A plan announced today by Bank of America will be the most aggressive foreclosure prevention effort ever undertaken by a U.S. bank.
The program, scheduled to start in December, will be open to distressed borrowers who signed up with Countrywide Financial between January 1, 2004 and December 31, 2007. Countrywide was acquired by Bank of America [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Really Want This Type Of Character In Office?</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/06/do-you-really-want-this-type-of-character-in-office/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/06/do-you-really-want-this-type-of-character-in-office/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
We&#8217;re not at the brink of an economical crisis, we are IN one. 750,000+ jobs were lost so far in 2008. Doesn&#8217;t that bother you? We need a change to take place for our country to stabilize.
Our country is in this condition because of 8 years of reckless governing by Bush, and right now all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drier And Warmer Winter Ahead Of Us</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/03/drier-and-warmer-winter-ahead-of-us/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/03/drier-and-warmer-winter-ahead-of-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[monsoon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[temperatures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a wet monsoon, but don&#8217;t get used to the rain.
Forecasters are calling for warmer, drier weather through December on the heels of a monsoon that poured more rain than average into 90 percent of the reliable gauges in and around Tucson, according to one weather expert.
&#8220;A lot of them were significantly over &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks Fannie &amp; Freddie&#8230; Thank you, Georgia Bush!</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/02/thanks-fannie-freddie-thank-you-georgia-bush/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/02/thanks-fannie-freddie-thank-you-georgia-bush/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fannie mae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freddie mac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope now]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[troubled homeowners]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=525</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago, you would have $49 left. With Fannie Mae, you would have $2.50 left of the original $1,000. With AIG, you would have less than $15 left. But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drunk all of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revised Bailout Plan Has More In Store For The Taxpayer</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/01/revised-bailout-plan-has-more-in-store-for-the-taxpayer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/10/01/revised-bailout-plan-has-more-in-store-for-the-taxpayer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight, we see if the new plan for the financial industry bailout will pass or not. The bailout has been revised, and yes, there are stipulations that the taxpayer should have gotten since the beginning of this all. There still are some questionable things going on, but I&#8217;m sure my curiousities aren&#8217;t going to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Record Annual Decline In Home Prices</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/30/record-annual-decline-in-home-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/30/record-annual-decline-in-home-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dropping home values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nationwide economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A closely watched index released Tuesday showed home prices tumbling by the sharpest annual rate ever in July, but the rate of monthly declines is slowing.
The Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s/Case-Shiller 20-city housing index fell a record 16.3% in July from a year earlier, the largest drop since its inception in 2000. The 10-city index plunged 17.5%, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 700 Billion Dollar Bailout: REJECTED</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/29/the-700-billion-dollar-bailout-rejected/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/29/the-700-billion-dollar-bailout-rejected/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[700 billion dollars]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 700 billion dollar bailout has been rejected. A time to rejoice? No, far from it. The economy has been in turmoil for the last week and now it&#8217;s going haywire right now. The worst drop in Wall Street history. Oil prices jolting itself up and down. Something has to be done, but more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bailout Vote Begins</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/29/the-bailout-vote-begins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/29/the-bailout-vote-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[AIG]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dropping home values]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[freddie mac]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The House, following four hours of heated and emotional debate, started to vote Monday on a sweeping $700 bailout of the nation&#8217;s financial system.
Investors were watching the vote closely. The Dow plummeted more than 700 points as votes against the bill mounted.
The debate included impassioned pleas for and against the measure from Democrats and Republicans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Anyone Afford My Home?</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/22/cant-anyone-afford-my-home/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/22/cant-anyone-afford-my-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lacking buyers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe you&#8217;ve started thinking that now you can finally find a buyer for your house. After all, this summer the National Association of Homebuilders asserted that houses were more affordable than at any time during the previous four years. Prices have slid so far that many homes are now within the reach of people who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Owing More On Your Property Than It&#8217;s Worth</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/22/owing-more-on-your-property-than-its-worth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/22/owing-more-on-your-property-than-its-worth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dropping home values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property values]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Median home prices in Pima County in August hit a 44-month low and posted their largest single-month fall off in more than a decade, according to data compiled by the Tucson Association of Realtors.
The fall in home values, driven by the subprime home loan foreclosure crisis, could leave 1 in 3 county homeowners over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August Foreclosures Hit Another Record High</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/21/august-foreclosures-hit-another-record-high-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/21/august-foreclosures-hit-another-record-high-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[august 2008]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreclosures]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Foreclosures hit another record high in August: 304,000 homes were in default and 91,000 families lost their houses.
More than 770,000 homes have been repossessed by lenders since August 2007, when the credit crunch took hold.
The report from RealtyTrac, an online marketer of foreclosures properties, is the latest in string of bad news for housing.
Foreclosure filings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Construction Houses At A 17 Year Low</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/17/new-construction-houses-at-a-17-year-low/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/17/new-construction-houses-at-a-17-year-low/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[17 year low]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new construction housing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Construction of new homes and apartments fell to its lowest level in 17 years last month, showing the country is still gripped by a severe housing downturn that has triggered billions of dollars of losses and is reshaping the structure of U.S. finance.
The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that housing construction dropped a surprise 6.2% last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lenders Kindly Turn Down The FHA</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/17/lenders-kindly-turn-down-the-fha/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/17/lenders-kindly-turn-down-the-fha/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[federal housing authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fha]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As part of the massive housing rescue bill passed by Congress in July, troubled borrowers will be able to refinance their home loans with the backing of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) starting on October 1.
But at a congressional hearing today in Washington, lenders didn&#8217;t seem terribly enthusiastic about the program, dubbed Hope for Homeowners.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August Foreclosures Hit Another Record High</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/12/august-foreclosures-hit-another-record-high/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/12/august-foreclosures-hit-another-record-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[august]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fannie mae]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[freddie mac]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Foreclosures hit another record high in August: 304,000 homes were in default and 91,000 families lost their houses.
More than 770,000 homes have been repossessed by lenders since August 2007, when the credit crunch took hold.
The report from RealtyTrac, an online marketer of foreclosures properties, is the latest in string of bad news for housing.
Foreclosure filings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Prices Will Level Off By Next Summer</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/11/home-prices-will-level-off-by-next-summer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/11/home-prices-will-level-off-by-next-summer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alan greenspan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[home values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Greenspan famously declared the worst was over back in November of 2006. And the National Association of Realtors&#8217; erstwhile chief economist David Lereah called the bottom a few times, starting in May 2006.
Plenty of other economists and real estate analysts have attempted to do the same &#8211; and of course they&#8217;ve all been wrong.
But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage Rates Plummet But Buyers Beware</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/10/mortgage-rates-plummet-but-buyers-beware/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/10/mortgage-rates-plummet-but-buyers-beware/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[credit score]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[freddie mac]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=325</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mortgage rates have plummeted, but that hasn&#8217;t made getting a home loan any easier for most borrowers.
In the wake of the government&#8217;s takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac last weekend, the 30-year fixed rate has dropped from 6.26% last Friday to 5.79%. But only buyers with a credit score of 740 of above &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pending Home Sales Down 3.2% in July</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/09/pending-home-sales-down-32-in-july/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/09/pending-home-sales-down-32-in-july/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:41:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=323</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pending home sales fell 3.2% in July after gaining in June, according to a real estate group&#8217;s report released Tuesday, in the latest in a series of gloomy housing reports.
The Pending Home Sales Index fell to 86.5, after gaining 5.8% in June, according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). It now stands 6.7% below [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tucson Sells Historic Downtown MacArthur Building</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/09/tucson-sells-historic-downtown-macarthur-building/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/09/tucson-sells-historic-downtown-macarthur-building/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[downtown tucson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macarthur building]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City of Tucson has sold one of downtown&#8217;s more distinctive structures.
Madden Media is buying the triangle-shaped MacArthur building on Toole Avenue for $1.7 million.
The deal was at an impasse last month on the issue of parking. The city originally did not include a lot with the building until a recent move allowed the future [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What The [Fannie &amp; Freddie] Rescue Means For Mortgage Rates</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/08/what-the-fannie-freddie-rescue-means-for-mortgage-rates/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/08/what-the-fannie-freddie-rescue-means-for-mortgage-rates/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:33:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fannie mae]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freddie mac]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mortgage applications]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=316</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Mortgage applicants rejoice!
Sunday&#8217;s federal takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will likely translate into lower mortgage rates and greater availability of credit, experts said. Rates could drop by 1 percentage point from the stubbornly-high 6.39% for a 30-year fixed rate mortgage.
(Editor&#8217;s Note: If the rates were to drop a full percent, the savings in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Record 1.2 Million Homes Hit By Foreclosure</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/05/record-12-million-homes-hit-by-foreclosure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/05/record-12-million-homes-hit-by-foreclosure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=302</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A record 1.2 million homes were in foreclosure during the second quarter of 2008.
That represents 2.8% of all outstanding loans, up from 1.4% of all loans during the same period a year ago, according to a report released Friday by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).
And 490,000 of the 45 million home mortgages serviced by MBA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage Rates Down For The Third Week</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/04/mortgage-rates-down-for-the-third-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/04/mortgage-rates-down-for-the-third-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mortgage rates declined, easing for the third straight week, according to a report from mortgage finance giant Freddie Mac.
Rates for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages (FRMs) averaged 6.35% in the week ending Sept. 4, according to Freddie Mac (FRE, Fortune 500). That&#8217;s down from last week, when it stood at 6.4%, and below a year ago, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How The Housing Crash Hurts Your Retirement</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/02/how-the-housing-crash-hurts-your-retirement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/02/how-the-housing-crash-hurts-your-retirement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dropping property values]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You already know that the housing crisis has wreaked havoc with the economy and financial markets, not to mention the lives of millions who&#8217;ve lost or could lose their homes. But there may be a less obvious casualty too: your retirement prosperity.
According to a recent report from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Rated Tucson Schools Keep Focus On Academics</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/01/top-rated-tucson-schools-keep-focus-on-academics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/09/01/top-rated-tucson-schools-keep-focus-on-academics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[basis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[BASIS Tucson&#8217;s Upper School sits in a building next door to a bank.
The white-walled classrooms are bare of the standard educational posters of colorful literary giants or &#8220;I think I can&#8221; slogans.
There&#8217;s no playground and no cafeteria; kids spill across the street to El Con Mall for lunch.
But what the school lacks in frills it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buyers, Investors Left In Lurch As Builder Fails</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/31/buyers-investors-left-in-lurch-as-builder-fails/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/31/buyers-investors-left-in-lurch-as-builder-fails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aldea del rey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael teufel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pathway projects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tucson real estate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At the peak of his success, developer Michael F. Teufel had acclaimed projects all over Tucson, earning praise for innovative designs and community accolades for business growth.
Then things went bad.
Now, Pathway projects across Tucson sit unfinished or with residents complaining of poor workmanship. While Teufel blames the downturn in the housing market, others blame him.
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hydroelectric Power To Be A Boon For Marana</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/30/287/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/30/287/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hydroelectric power]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[utility costs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Marana officials expect to save as much as $5 million in utility costs over the next 20 years after the Town Council approved a contract to use an allocation of hydroelectric power.
The one megawatt of power, which Marana will get annually for 20 years beginning Oct. 1, comes from the Parker-Davis Project. That project generates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Sales Up Slightly in West, Prices Falling</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/29/home-sales-up-slightly-in-west-prices-falling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/29/home-sales-up-slightly-in-west-prices-falling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arizona home values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[national housing slump]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[    Sales of existing homes in the West edged higher overall in July, as many buyers took advantage of falling prices in foreclosure-ravaged areas in California, Nevada and elsewhere, according to two reports Monday.
About 1.1 million preowned houses and condominiums were sold last month in the 13-state region, up almost 1 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TEP Signs Deal To Buy Solar Power</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/29/tep-signs-deal-to-buy-solar-power/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/29/tep-signs-deal-to-buy-solar-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[solar power]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[tucson electric power]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
Tucson Electric Power Co. has signed a deal with a Maryland solar-energy company to finance, build, install and maintain 15 megawatts of solar power in the next five years.
The deal with SunEdison LLC would provide so-called distrubuted solar generation — installed at ratepayer sites rather than at a central utility location — to commercial and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Offers Grants To Fix Homes</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/27/city-offers-grants-to-fix-homes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/27/city-offers-grants-to-fix-homes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[home repair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tucson annual rehabilitation program]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=276</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tucson will accept applications for grants and deferred loans for home repairs beginning Sept. 2. The aid will range from $7,500 to $15,000.
The applicant must own the property and live in it as his primary residence.
Roof repairs, heating and cooling system replacements and structural and some other repairs can be made with the repair funds, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Home Values Fell 4.4 Percent In Q2 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/27/arizona-home-values-fell-44-percent-in-q2-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/27/arizona-home-values-fell-44-percent-in-q2-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arizona communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[arizona home values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tucson real estate]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Home values in Arizona continue to plummet at faster and faster rates.
New figures from the Office of Federal Housing Oversight show the average value of Arizona dropped 4.4 percent in just three months. That figure for the second quarter ended June 30 compares with a 2.8 percent drop in the prior three months, a 1.2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Council Adopts Pima County’s Conservation Plan</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/26/council-adopts-pima-county%e2%80%99s-conservation-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/26/council-adopts-pima-county%e2%80%99s-conservation-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[oro valley town council]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sonoran desert conservation plan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Oro Valley Town Council last Wednesday unanimously endorsed a sweeping county environmental protection plan.
A major aspect of the science-based Sonoran Desert Conservation Plan is a Conservation Land System map that outlines habitat protection guidelines.
County officials, scientists, environmental activists and citizen volunteers spent years devising the plan.
With Oro Valley’s endorsement of the document, the plan’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tucson Named A Top Trail Running Town</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/26/tucson-named-a-top-trail-running-town/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/26/tucson-named-a-top-trail-running-town/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[catalina state park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tucson is one of the top 8 trail running towns in America, according to TrailRunner Magazine. The city received the high ranking due to the large number of trail running options nearby, including Catalina State Park, the Tucson Mountains, Mt. Lemmon, Sabino Canyon, and Saguaro National Park.
Credits: Fox 11 AZ
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		<title>Housing: Frank Talk With Barney Frank</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/25/housing-frank-talk-with-barney-frank/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/25/housing-frank-talk-with-barney-frank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[barney frank]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spend 27 years in Congress and you&#8217;re bound to encounter more than one financial train wreck. But as Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., sees it, the meltdown in the U.S. housing market poses as much of a threat to the nation&#8217;s economic well-being as anything he&#8217;s encountered during his time on Capitol Hill.
More than 3 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Existing Home Sales Rise, But Prices Still Sinking</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/25/existing-home-sales-rise-but-prices-still-sinking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/25/existing-home-sales-rise-but-prices-still-sinking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:04:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dropping property values]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sales of existing homes rose more than expected in July, but prices continued to fall and inventory increased. That&#8217;s according to the latest reading on the battered housing market by an industry trade group released Monday.
The National Association of Realtors reported that sales by homeowners in July increased to an annual pace of 5 million, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lagging Web Access Puts Arizona Kids Behind</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/24/lagging-web-access-puts-arizona-kids-behind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/24/lagging-web-access-puts-arizona-kids-behind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arizona schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lacking internet access]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Internet access Arizonans take for granted at home isn&#8217;t available to students in many of the state&#8217;s public schools, leaving them lagging in skills they will need to compete in universities or thrive in the workforce.
Schools lack equipment, Internet connections and money to train teachers to create tech-savvy students. The state trails the national average [...]]]></description>
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		<title>8 Ways To Help Obama Steal Arizona</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/24/8-ways-to-help-obama-steal-arizona/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/24/8-ways-to-help-obama-steal-arizona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Barack Obama,
You could win this state, and I&#8217;m here to tell you how.
First, remember that John McCain was called a carpetbagger before anyone in Arizona called him senator.
Arizona may look red on cable TV. But a lot of that is just blood on the floor from all the brawling within the state&#8217;s GOP.
National pollster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Water Heater Pays Off In Arizona</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/23/solar-water-heater-pays-off-in-arizona/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/23/solar-water-heater-pays-off-in-arizona/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[arizona]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[green living]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solar water heater]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=260</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If somebody offered you free gas for your car, you&#8217;d gratefully accept. So why are you turning down free hot water for your home?
Up to 15 percent of your energy bill goes to heat water &#8211; but it doesn&#8217;t have to. The sun can do it for free.
When it&#8217;s time to replace your water heater, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tucson Takes A Lead With LEED When Constructing Buildings</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/23/tucson-takes-a-lead-with-leed-when-constructing-buildings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/23/tucson-takes-a-lead-with-leed-when-constructing-buildings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 20:58:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[green]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leed lightings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tucson buildings]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because the concept is somewhat fluid and the definition a bit amorphous, the term ‘green’ is subject to a lot of different interpretations. As a construction color however, green &#8211; at least the environmental shade &#8211; is red-hot, especially when it comes to providing development advantages in a down marketplace.
&#8220;How we build is going to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Town Officials Want An Art Mueseum</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/22/town-officials-want-an-art-mueseum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/22/town-officials-want-an-art-mueseum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[oro valley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tucson museum of art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oro Valley officials have begun officially courting the Tucson Museum of Art.
“We think that we’re in a real desirable location,” Oro Valley Town Manager David Andrews said Monday.
The museum has outgrown its downtown facility and is in search of a new space.
“We’re basically landlocked by historic properties,” said Robert Knight, executive director of the Tucson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oro Valley Shops To Open in October</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/22/oro-valley-shops-to-open-in-october/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/22/oro-valley-shops-to-open-in-october/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[commercial real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[east tangerine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 26 businesses will be part of Oro Valley Marketplace when it opens in mid-October.
The 800,000-square-foot shopping center, at the corner of North Oracle and East Tangerine roads, originally was scheduled to open a month earlier.
Rather than opening in phases as initially planned, Vestar Development Co. wants the shopping center &#8220;to open with a big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Schools Rising To The Best Of American Universities</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/22/arizona-schools-rising-to-the-best-of-american-universities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/22/arizona-schools-rising-to-the-best-of-american-universities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 19:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona State University has moved up three slots to No. 121 in a widely watched ranking of American colleges and is listed as an &#8220;up-and-coming school,&#8221; a new category that recognizes universities that have made striking improvements or innovations.
The annual rankings of 262 universities were released today by U.S. News &#38; World Report. Harvard University [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hydroelectric Power To Be A Boon To Marana</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/22/hydroelectric-power-to-be-a-boon-to-marana/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/22/hydroelectric-power-to-be-a-boon-to-marana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marana officials expect to save as much as $5 million in utility costs over the next 20 years after the Town Council approved a contract to use an allocation of hydroelectric power.
The one megawatt of power, which Marana will get annually for 20 years beginning Oct. 1, comes from the Parker-Davis Project. That project generates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Homebuilding Sags, Projects Lift Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/21/as-homebuilding-sags-projects-lift-economy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/21/as-homebuilding-sags-projects-lift-economy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Construction spending by federal, state and local governments has reached record levels, lifting the economy and creating jobs for blue-collar workers despite a collapse in home building.
The building of new homes and apartments nationally fell in July to its lowest level since 1991, the Commerce Department reported this week, but a boom in government projects [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luxury Retirement Communities Boom</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/20/luxury-retirement-communities-boom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/20/luxury-retirement-communities-boom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arizona&#8217;s real-estate industry has slowed to a crawl, but four northeast Valley developers are pursuing a segment of buyers with money and at least a few more years to enjoy it.
Four luxury-retirement communities with nearly 1,200 units are in the pipeline in Scottsdale and nearby Desert Ridge, with development costs of more than $500 million.
Developers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IndyMac Borrowers To Get Relief</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/20/indymac-borrowers-to-get-relief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/20/indymac-borrowers-to-get-relief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FDIC, six weeks after taking over mortgage lender IndyMac Bank, said Wednesday that it will start automatically modifying some of the bank&#8217;s most troubled loans to keep borrowers in their homes.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said it has started to send out the first of what will be an estimated 25,000 letters to borrowers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Arizona Voters Really That Stupid?</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/19/are-arizona-voters-really-that-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/19/are-arizona-voters-really-that-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Arizona, the Secretary of State is charged with the responsibility of certifying signatures on petitions to put proposed measures on the ballot. But in practice, it mostly seems to fall to courts to creatively reinterpret state law to fit the particular circumstances each initiative seems to fall into.
For example, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Downtown Tucson: Let The Ball Keep Rolling!</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/18/downtown-tucson-let-the-ball-keep-rolling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/18/downtown-tucson-let-the-ball-keep-rolling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[44 east broadway]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Broadway east of Stone Avenue downtown resembles pre-1989 East Berlin with a dispirited jumble of eight surface parking lots, a closed hotel, a few isolated and generally vacant business buildings scattered about, not a single retail shop and a dearth of foot traffic.
Downtown&#8217;s busiest street serves little purpose except for eastbound motorists bound for suburbia.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next Wave of Mortgage Defaults</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/17/the-next-wave-of-mortgage-defaults/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/17/the-next-wave-of-mortgage-defaults/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[foreclosures]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Prime mortgages are starting to default at disturbingly high rates &#8211; a development that threatens to slow any potential housing recovery.
The delinquency rate for prime mortgages worth less than $417,000 was 2.44% in May, compared with 1.38% a year earlier, according to LoanPerformance, a unit of First American CoreLogic that compiles and analyzes residential mortgage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tucson Home Prices Dropped 15 Percent</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/16/tucson-home-prices-dropped-15-percent/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/16/tucson-home-prices-dropped-15-percent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dropping values]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tredaily.com/?p=236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Single-family home starts tumbled more than 40 percent last month compared with July 2007, said a report released Friday by Bright Future Business Consultants.
Prices for new homes are also continuing to slide, the report said.
The Southern Arizona Housing Market Letter said the median price for a new home in July was $210,000, down 15 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Prices Have Fallen 7.6% Over The Past Year</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/15/home-prices-have-fallen-76-over-the-past-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/15/home-prices-have-fallen-76-over-the-past-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real estate prices continued to post steep year-over-year declines during the three months ended June 30, according to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR).
Nationwide, the median existing single family home price plunged 7.6% to $206,500 in the second quarter, down from $223,500 in the same period of 2007. The median price [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rosemont: Our Proposed Copper Mine</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/14/rosemont-our-proposed-copper-mine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/14/rosemont-our-proposed-copper-mine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stan Dietzman moved to a ghost town in the Santa Rita Mountains 19 years ago to escape the hubbub of city life.
The Tucson native bought 16 acres in Helvetia, 30 miles southeast of Tucson, drilled a well and put up a shack to call home. Over the years he has built his dream house near [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing Inventory Drops As Sellers Retreat</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/13/housing-inventory-drops-as-sellers-retreat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/13/housing-inventory-drops-as-sellers-retreat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of homes listed for sale continues to edge lower in many metropolitan areas, though supplies remain ample.
The supply of homes available for sale in 29 major metropolitan areas in July was down 0.5% from a month earlier, according to figures compiled by ZipRealty Inc., a real-estate brokerage firm based in Emeryville, Calif. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The New Housing Reform Law Offers Hope</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/12/the-new-housing-reform-law-offers-hope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[homeowners]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the market slowdown wearing on, real estate, home-building and lending professionals in Tucson are pinning hopes for a turnaround on a recently passed federal housing-stimulus package.
The wide-ranging bill, signed into law July 30, encompasses a slew of incentives and reforms aimed at helping the housing industry out of its slump. Among them are a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgages: You Don&#8217;t Get One Until You Get One!</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/11/mortgages-you-dont-get-one-until-you-get-one/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/11/mortgages-you-dont-get-one-until-you-get-one/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But even borrowers who think they&#8217;re well positioned to be approved for a mortgage &#8220;can&#8217;t assume anything,&#8221; said Guy Cecala, of Inside Mortgage Finance. And they&#8217;d better be prepared to shop around to get the best rates.

Cecala estimates that a third of the people who were able to get a loan in 2005 and 2006 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Rock in Pinal County Maintaining</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/10/red-rock-in-pinal-county-maintaining/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/10/red-rock-in-pinal-county-maintaining/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 

To prospective home buyer Nicole Oahrig, Pulte Homes&#8217; Red Rock Village offers some big attractions: homes priced as low as $129,000 with family-friendly amenities like a swim complex and a skate park.
But then there&#8217;s the deal-breaker: &#8220;The distance,&#8221; said Oahrig, 29, about the 30-mile commute from the development south to Tucson.
 
The homes are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Magnus Slam Shut In Its Casket By The Man</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/10/first-magnus-slam-shut-in-its-casket-by-the-man/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/10/first-magnus-slam-shut-in-its-casket-by-the-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Magnus has been closed but now they&#8217;re done for sure. In this kind of market and in the next, we should not use any business that is related or affiliated with the creators of First Magnus. The creators have created StoneWater Mortgage, operating in their previous First Magnus office.

Collapsed lender First Magnus Financial Corp. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tucson Real Estate Welcomes Foreign Snowbirds</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/09/tucson-real-estate-welcomes-foreign-snowbirds/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/09/tucson-real-estate-welcomes-foreign-snowbirds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Mark Dziedzic made the move from Toronto to Arizona two years ago, he already knew the attraction of the American sun belt to Canadians weary of being snowbound.
But bolstered by the downtrodden U.S. real estate market and the suddenly strong Canadian dollar, the trend of snowbirds snatching up properties south of the border is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgages Get More Expensive</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/08/mortgages-get-more-expensive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/08/mortgages-get-more-expensive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 01:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good news: Mortgage giant Fannie Mae is taking steps to shore up its finances. The bad news: You&#8217;re going to pay for it when you take out a mortgage.
Fannie plays a central role in the market for home mortgages by purchasing loans, securitizing them and selling them to investors. In announcing announcing a $2.3 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rio Nuevo&#8217;s Project Plans</title>
		<link>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/08/rio-nuevos-project-plans/</link>
		<comments>http://www.tredaily.com/2008/08/08/rio-nuevos-project-plans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Park</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since a newspaper investigation showed the city of Tucson has spent $77 million on Rio Nuevo, and many think there is little to show for it, the city has been working spin control. It was in full force at the August 6th Council meeting, as approval was given to 