From Frank Nelson of the LA Times…
Judy Mello wasn’t looking forward to buying a new place to live, imagining a lengthy, complicated and perhaps stressful experience.
“I figured it was going to drag on for months and months,” she says. “But it wasn’t like that at all.”
In fact, it took Mello, a retired registered nurse, a […]

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From The Wall Street Journal…
By Ben Casselman and Christina S.N. Lewis
It might seem foolish given the recent news from Wall Street, but a group of homeowners is holding firm on an ambitious goal — to break the record for the most expensive home sale in American history.
The price to beat is $103 million.
Two years ago, […]

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Home prices in the U.S. fell by a record in the second quarter as sales dropped and mortgage lenders made it tougher to get a loan, says S&P/Case-Shiller.
Home values declined 3.2 percent in the three months through June from the same period a year before, according to today’s S&P/Case-Shiller report.

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From the New York Times… 
By Michelle Slatalla 
The value of my house fluctuates more often — and for even more mysterious reasons — than my weight these days.
But is it going up? Or down? Either my house lost $94,248 in value over the last two months, or else it gained $32,799 in the last 30 days.
I […]

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