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<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Don't Bet Against Your House</title>
<description><![CDATA[Amid falling prices,  homeowners are understandably nervous about how they can protect what for most is their biggest asset. While diversification isn't an option,  there are steps homeowners can take to ride out the housing storm.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Foreclosures Increase Again</title>
<description><![CDATA[The rate of U.S. home mortgages overdue or in foreclosure surged again in the second quarter,  a survey found.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>How to Attract Canadian Buyers</title>
<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a strong currency and stable economy,  Canadians are snapping up American homes. But with so many houses on the market,  it takes some effort to attract their attention. June Fletcher offers some tips.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Longs Property    Is a Wild Card</title>
<description><![CDATA[Could CVS Caremark's pending $2.61 billion purchase of Longs Drug Stores come undone? Dissident shareholders hope so,  having intensified their campaign to disrupt the deal just as the proceedings hit the home stretch. Their potential wedge is the value of Longs' real estate.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Mortgages Fall Further</title>
<description><![CDATA[Home mortgage rates moved lower this week after indications that consumer spending could slow,  Freddie Mac's chief economist said.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Two NBA All-Stars Cut House Prices</title>
<description><![CDATA[Allen Iverson cut the price of his Pennsylvania home;  Matthew Modine purchased a condo in New York City;  Leonard Ross took the Hearst estate in Beverly Hills off the market.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Meet the Nouveaux Neighbors</title>
<description><![CDATA[Boosted by a stronger currency and rising house values at home,  Canadians are now the biggest foreign buyers of U.S. homes.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Starwood, Sands Plan Vegas Venture</title>
<description><![CDATA[Starwood Hotels' high-end St. Regis brand will make its first appearance on the Las Vegas Strip under a deal in which Starwood will manage a condo development for Las Vegas Sands.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Toll Brothers Swings to Loss</title>
<description><![CDATA[Toll Brothers swung to a loss as the U.S. housing-market declines led to more write-downs for the builder and sales continued to fall.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Construction Sees Drop in Spending</title>
<description><![CDATA[Construction spending declined in July,  led by another sharp drop in housing and in the construction of manufacturing plants.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Trading Houses Hasn't Made Me Wealthy</title>
<description><![CDATA[If you're a true cheapskate,  stay put. Moving is expensive and wasteful. Neal Templin's family would have come out ahead financially by staying put instead of moving to another city.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>GMAC to Shrink ResCap Business</title>
<description><![CDATA[GMAC and its ResCap unit plan to close all 200 GMAC Mortgage retail offices and cut 5, 000 jobs,  in a plan that could lead to savings of $1 billion.]]></description>
<link>http://topnewsplanet.com/go/en/article/id/109151/gmac-to-shrink-rescap-business.html</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Lautner's Dazzlers Designed for Daily Living</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles is trying to elevate John Lautner into a poet of space,  a visionary,  a major American architect. And it is pulling out all the stops in its tribute: exhibition,  film,  symposia,  house tours,  etc.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Lenders Move to Foreclose on Macklowe</title>
<description><![CDATA[Harry Macklowe's main lender moved to foreclose on the former tycoon's largest development project.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:37:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Foreclosed But Not Forgotten</title>
<description><![CDATA[A few ideas for avoiding another housing crisis.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Construction Sees   Drop in Spending</title>
<description><![CDATA[Construction spending declined in July,  led by another sharp drop in housing and in the construction of manufacturing plants. According to the Census Bureau,  the value of spending on private nonresidential construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $416.8 billion in July,  down 0.7% from June. The value of private residential construction was at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $357.8 billion in July,  down 2.3% from June.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Housing Plan Fails to Excite</title>
<description><![CDATA[London homes remain so expensive that the government's housing stimulus plan falls short,  economists and real-estate agents said.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>U.K. Aims to Revive Housing Market</title>
<description><![CDATA[Britain's Brown unveiled the first in a series of measures to prop up the housing market and boost his approval ratings.]]></description>
<link>http://topnewsplanet.com/go/en/article/id/108810/uk-aims-to-revive-housing-market.html</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Lehman's Clouded SunCal Bet</title>
<description><![CDATA[A mix of easy money and land speculation helps show why Lehman is scrambling to pare back its $40 billion commercial real-estate portfolio.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Dodging Gustav, Recovering From Katrina</title>
<description><![CDATA[Gulfport,  Miss.,  was spared the full fury of Hurricane Gustav. It's also showing new signs of recovering from Katrina.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Simon Says</title>
<description><![CDATA[The stage is set for some heavy negotiating between Simon Property Group and Lend Lease over the King of Prussia Mall,  a 2.6 million-square-foot behemoth near Philadelphia.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Post Sets Tighter Focus to Get Through</title>
<description><![CDATA[Post Properties plans to sell property and use the proceeds to buy back stock,  reduce debt and,  potentially,  issue a special dividend to shareholders.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Emerging Europe Has Upside</title>
<description><![CDATA[Frustrated property investors haven't given up on Central and Eastern Europe as the U.S.-led economic slowdown has begun to hit emerging markets.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:25:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>California Seeks to Curb Sprawl</title>
<description><![CDATA[California lawmakers passed a bill aimed at cutting carbon-dioxide emissions by requiring cities and counties to prevent urban sprawl and improve public transportation.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Lehman Has Plan for Real-Estate Loans</title>
<description><![CDATA[Lehman is nearing a plan that will allow it to offload billions of dollars in real-estate loans from its books.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>U.K. Aims to Ease Pain in Housing</title>
<description><![CDATA[The British government this week plans to present measures aimed at boosting the housing market and helping poor consumers pay their utility bills.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:46:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Lennar Stays Ahead of Crisis</title>
<description><![CDATA[Lennar's multiyear,  billion-dollar effort to develop decrepit former military bases on San Francisco's waterfront has tapped a new financing source.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:48:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Mori's Skyscraper Opens in China</title>
<description><![CDATA[In a big bet on China's post-Olympics economy,  Japanese developer Minoru Mori opened the country's tallest skyscraper in a challenging environment.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
<title>Mori's Big -- and Tall -- Bet on Shanghai</title>
<description><![CDATA[In a big bet on China's post-Olympics economy,  Japanese developer Minoru Mori opened the country's tallest skyscraper in a challenging environment.]]></description>
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