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News, articles and information about the residential housing market, including apartment dwelling, home buying, mortgage lending, home improvement, real estate.
News, articles and information about the residential housing market, including apartment dwelling, home buying, mortgage lending, home improvement, real estate.
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Housing rescue bill OK'd
The House approved a sweeping plan yesterday that responds to the most serious housing crisis since the Depression by providing a federal backstop for struggling mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and aid to homeowners facing foreclosure. In a...Tags: John A Boehner, Wayne T Gilchrest, Nancy Pelosi, Parliament, Lynn Anderson
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Record home losses in California
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersThe price tag for the nation's housing crisis escalated again with reports Tuesday that a record number of Californians lost their homes to foreclosure in the last three months and that a potential bailout of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac...Tags: Sales, Personal Income, House, Government Aid, The White House
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More economic squeeze called likely in 2nd half
Associated PressFactories laying off workers, stocks tumbling and shoppers ditching their credit cards forced the economy to contract in June, a trend likely to continue in the second half of 2008, a private business group said yesterday. The New York-based Conference...Tags: Vehicles, New York Weather, Land Price, Heavy Engineering, Weather Reports
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Shoreline savings
If the downturn in Maryland's real estate industry weren't bad enough, it has also had the effect of greatly diminishing the state's much-needed land conservation efforts. Program Open Space, which underwrites much of the state and local land purchases,...Tags: Natural Resources, Land Resources, Local Authority, Chesapeake Bay, Conservation
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Developer returns luster to L.A. landmarks
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterDeveloper Wayne Ratkovich had little idea 30 years ago when he and his partners bought an unwanted office building in downtown Los Angeles that a forgotten gem lay waiting. The office market at the time was hot for glass and steel towers, and to hell...Tags: Government, Julia Roberts, Richard Gere, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Renovation
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Big fight, little fallout after Icahn battles
AP Business WriterBillionaire Carl Icahn may use the three board seats at Yahoo Inc. that he added to his collection on Monday to do ... not much. The colorful corporate raider, who has been locked in a public feud with Yahoo over its rejection of Microsoft Corp.'s...Tags: Motorola, Inc., Northwestern University, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, WCI Communities Incorporated, Blockbuster Incorporated
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Norfolk Southern 2Q profit rises 15 percent
Railroad Norfolk Southern Corp. said Tuesday its second-quarter profit rose 15 percent as higher revenue per shipment offset a 2 percent decline in traffic. The rail operator said it earned $453 million, or $1.18 per share, for the quarter that ended...Tags: Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), Norfolk Southern Corporation
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Unemployment, stocks push down leading indicators
The Associated PressFactories laying off workers, stocks tumbling and shoppers ditching their credit cards forced the economy to contract in June, a trend likely to continue in the second half of 2008, a private business group said today. The New York-based Conference...Tags: Vehicles, Heavy Engineering, General Motors Corp.
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Searching online for a home: Many websites, varying insights
Special to The TimesFirst of two parts. If Americans have come to rely on the Internet to search for houses -- and last year, the National Assn. of Realtors says, 84% of all buyers did -- where should one start? The Web is awash in sites that promise to help focus a home...Tags: Real Estate, Sales, Stock Broking, Property, Academic Progress
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Jobs outlook weak as state's unemployment rate hits 6.9% in June
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCalifornia's jobless rate crept ahead Friday as experts saw weakness spreading into new areas of the economy. For months, job losses were concentrated in the state's housing industry. But with June's increase of one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.9%,...Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Economic Policy, Energy, Long Beach (California), Starbucks Corporation
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