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• Welcome to Zombieland: Ladera Ranch, California • Foreclosure freeze coming • Should you gift your kid a down payment? • House hunters are too scared to buy despite low prices • Buy a foreclosure - save 30% on the price • Mortgage tax break in the crosshairs • Home prices fall 2% • Foreclosure scandal impact: Sales dry up • New home sales: Down 80% from the boom • Existing home sales slow down • Add 2.1 million houses to the glut • Improve your home for the holidays • Most (and least) affordable cities • Fewer homeowners behind on payments • It doesn't pay to remodel your home • Servicers must improve loan modifications, say state AGs • Foreclosure mess prompts call for stress tests • Canada's coming housing bust • Repossessions fall 9% in October • Home sales plummet 25% • Million-dollar homes: Massive discounts • Pay down the mortgage or save for retirement? • Homebuilders' survival lessons • Get a high-quality remodel for less • How one city dodged the recession • What the election means for foreclosures and robo-signing • Buy a wreck: 5 foreclosure specials • 3 ways low mortgage rates can work for you • American dream fades for more as homeownership falls

• Obama administration sings new tune on foreclosures • Home prices expected to slide another 8% • Foreclosure? Don't worry. You can still vote • Befuddled by foreclosures? • Australians swoop in on U.S. foreclosures • I was a robo-signer • Sin City is still foreclosure central • Wells Fargo to update foreclosure docs • New home sales in slow recovery • Google eyes purchase of massive NY building - report • Home prices sag • Obama mortgage mods dwindle • Existing home sales on the rise • Robo-signing: Just the start of bigger problems How to buy a foreclosure in a robo-signing world • We'd like to return these bad loans, please • Buy a foreclosure in a robo-signing world • What $1 million buys in a blighted neighborhood • Foreclosure mess: Fake signatures and lavish gifts • U.S. eyes criminal violations in foreclosure crisis • Illinois sheriff may halt evictions • You're not getting your house back • Foreclosure probe: Problems aren't 'systemic' • Housing mess: You can't stay if you don't pay • Housing starts hit 5-month high • Countrywide's Mozilo to pay $67.5 million settlement • Ohio AG to Ally: Stop foreclosure sales

Home price plunge is widespread


10:46am: Prices drop in all 20 key cities in the S&P/Case-Shiller index, a sign that a double dip in housing is coming -- or has already arrived.
New home sales climb - but recovery is sluggish


Dec 23: New home sales edged higher in November, the government reported Thursday, but the recovery remains sluggish from a year ago.

Hooray? Higher mortgage rates spurred home sales uptick

Dec 23: The country's economic engine seems to be running in reverse as more expensive borrowing spurs home sales, and an uptick in borrowing sends mortgage rates back down. More

Home sales creep up - but are still off 30%

Dec 22: Existing home sales picked up steam in November but are still down nearly 30% from this time last year, an industry report said Tuesday.

America's most overvalued cities

Jan 27: Most markets were overvalued four years ago. No more. In the majority of markets now, homes sell at a discount to their fair market price.
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