The article can be accessed here: http://fortune.com/2014/11/29/how-the-internet-is-giving-small-business-saturday-an-edge/ IN SUMMARY: As many of you surely know, today is Small Business Saturday! After the tremendous push by large companies to sell on Black Friday, this is an opportunity for sm
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11/29/2014
The full article can be accessed here: https://dsnews.com/news/11-28-2014/income-inventory-increases-lift-october-home-sales IN SUMMARY: The National Association of Realtors along with Redfin have reported the first sizeable year-to-date increase in the number of homes sold in October of 2014.
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11/28/2014
The full article can be accessed here: https://dsnews.com/news/11-25-2014/unemployment-rate-falls-year-year-42-states-d-c In Summary: Forty-two states and Washington DC have seen year-over-year decreases in the rate of unemployment. Only five states have had year-over-year increases in
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11/28/2014
The full article can be accessed here: http://dsnews.com/news/11-28-2014/freddie-macs-growth-rate-hits-20-month-high In Summary: This article provides an interesting look at Freddie Mac and its loan portfolio. October was the second month in a row, after many months in the red; that sh
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11/28/2014
The full article can be accessed here: http://money.cnn.com/2014/11/17/real_estate/zombie-foreclosure-debt/index.html SOME THOUGHTS: It seems that one of the major after-shocks of the housing crisis and the ensuing foreclosures is foreclosure debt. Foreclosure debt can be characterized
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11/25/2014
The full article can be accessed here: Should You Refinance Into a Bigger Mortgage? SOME THOUGHTS: I found the content of this article interesting due to the simple explanations for refinancing and mortgage options. The article is valuable for the easy-to-folllow manner in which the
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11/24/2014
The weather has turned abruptly colder for most of the country, but the economy and the housing market are heating up. Here are the most significant economic developments of the past week. Breaking ground: The new home market is finally improving, as demonstrated by single-family housing starts—t
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11/22/2014
New Listings for October of 2014 in Loudoun County have increased 23.8% from October of 2013. There are currently 744 New Listings, which is much higher than October’s five year average new listings of 618. New Pending Listings for 10/2014 have increased by 6.5% since 10/2013. New Pending Li
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11/22/2014
Wells Fargo and Ocwen Financial have mutually agreed to cancel the sale of billions of dollars residential mortgage servicing rights after New York's top financial regulator put the deal on hold, according to multiple reports. San Francisco-based bank Wells Fargo, the nation's top mortgage lende
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11/20/2014
Consumer sentiment in the United States jumped more than two points in a preliminary November estimate, beating economic forecasts and hitting a more than seven-year high. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment registered 89.4 in a mid-month reading, the best showi
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11/17/2014
