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Today's Real Estate News - Monday, February 08

Mortgage rates edge up slightly

Rates on 30-year fixed mortgages rose slightly this week, inching above 5 percent, Freddie Mac said Thursday.





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NYT: No help in sight, more homeowners walk away

Benjamin Koellmann paid $215,000 for his apartment in Miami Beach in 2006, but now units are selling in foreclosure for $90,000. "There is no financial sense in staying," he said.By June, about 5.1 million people are projected own a home whose value is below 75 percent of what is owed, prompting many to walk away from their mortgages.





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Modest increase seen in home sales activity

The National Association of Realtors' index has risen for nine out of the past 10 months as buyers scrambled to take advantage of an $8,000 first-time homebuyer tax credit before its scheduled expiration Nov. 30.The number of people preparing to buy a home rose slightly in December, a sign that home sales could be stabilizing heading into the spring home buying season.





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Duplicity in mother-of-all mortgage walkaways

The Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town apartment complex is seen in New York in this Oct. 17, 2006 file photo. Tishman Speyer Properties walks away from 11,232 Manhattan apartments because it can't pay its mortgage. That's good business.





Tishman Speyer Properties - Business - United States - Financial Services - Mortgages

Some see hints of bottom in housing

A "sold" sign is shown outside a home in Long Beach, Calif., recently. Sales prices have risen from year-ago levels in hard-hit California, especially in coastal areas. Although evidence is mixed and tentative, some analysts see evidence that hard-hit housing markets in California, Arizona and elsewhere are showing signs of healing.





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Sales of new homes sink 7.6 percent

New home sales unexpectedly fell 7.6 percent last month, capping the industry's weakest year on record.


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Flaws plague foreclosure relief program

Courtney Scott, who lives in the Atlanta area, is "more confused than ever" after battling for two years to save her home from foreclosure. Ten months into the government’s third program to stop a record wave of foreclosures, the latest effort is falling far short of its goal. By John W. Schoen





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