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Home Foreclosures Rise 7 Percent in October

Foreclosures ticked up 7 percent in October from the prior month, RealtyTrac reported today, while defaults in California, Florida and Michigan hit 12-month highs. Foreclosure filings were reported on 230,678 U.S. properties in October, with one in every 563 U.S. … Continue reading

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A smaller house will make a big difference

Last year the economic forecasting firm Fiserv predicted that home values would sink around 5% in 2011, and that prices in three-quarters of the nation’s major metro areas would fall. The bad news is, the firm wasn’t that far off … Continue reading

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