Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

By Stefan SwanepoelRISMEDIA, July 13, 2007–Most of us feel that we definitely are, but many times, especially when watching the TV program with the same title, I am shocked at the participants’ and my own apparent lack of knowledge or inability to remember the smallest of facts

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Agencies cut ratings on risky home loans

Standard & Poor??s and Moody??s Investors Service have cut the credit rating of bonds backed by risky home loans, saying borrowers are missing mortgage payments at levels much higher than anticipated.

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In Suit Against Landlord, Tenants Make Unusual Accusation: Racketeering

A group of tenants in a federal lawsuit accused one of the city?s fastest-growing residential landlords of harassment, fraud, rent overcharges and illegal evictions.

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Fashion finds Fort Lauderdale

Male or female, take your pick. Both genders showed off their physiques on the runway during a recent fashion show weekend along Fort Lauderdale beach to help launch a new local clothing line.

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House of Pearl to diversify into real estate - Business Standard

House of Pearl to diversify into real estate
Business Standard, India -2 hours ago
House of Pearl Fashions is diversifying into real estate through its subsidiary Pearl Global. It will form a JV with realty major Ansal Properties and ...

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Bloggers Downgrade Ratings Agencies (BusinessWeek Online)

BusinessWeek Online - As investors began to sift through the fallout of Standard & Poor's and Moody's decisions to likely slash the credit ratings of billions of dollars of bonds backed by subprime mortgages, many finance bloggers are posing twin queries: "Why now?" and "What next?"

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Metro housing market ‘anemic,’ realtors group says

"I thought it would be on the market for just a hot minute"

Photo by Marlin Levison , Star Tribune Potential house buyers Nate Brunner and Nicki Machler made a walk-through inspection of a house listed in the $230,000 range in St. via Star Tribune

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Getting Away by Pressing the ?Up? Button

For some second-home buyers, a pied-?-terre in the city can mean weekends in the clouds.

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NAR PULSE: New Book Is a Great Gift for Clients on the Move

RISMEDIA, July 13, 2007?????Thoughts of Home??? is a new coffee table book that’s filled with simple, nostalgic, everyday scenes of home life that inspire fond memories of our own families and homes. Beautiful photographs pair with moving descriptions that capture the smells and tastes and colors of home through the seasons, evoking the emotional [...]

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U.S. home foreclosures drop in June

MIAMI - MARCH 27:  A foreclosure sign sits in front of a home March 27, 2007 in Miami, Florida. The state of Florida had 19,144 homes entered foreclosure in February, the most of any state, said a report by RealtyTrac.  (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)U.S. home foreclosures fell in June after jumping to a 30-month peak in May, but default rates will escalate as a horde of mortgages resets at higher loan rates, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on Thursday.


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