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Real Estate Outlook: Improving Markets, Difficult Credit
The unemployment rate is on the decline, at least it was for the month of November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is now at 8.6 percent, as employment rose by 120,000. FULL STORY ->

Upgrade Your Home's Value: Practical Investments In Personal Protection
In this economy, homeowners face a variety of economic challenges. Rather than succumb to falling real estate prices and uncertainty, there is an alternative: practical investments in personal protection, starting with fire safety, which upgrade a home's value for the betterment of everyone. FULL STORY ->

Homeownership Still The American Dream, Fuels Economy
It's billed as the American Dream and yet for some it's been an all-time American nightmare. Still "the home is central to American life" writes the National Association of Homebuilders in its report titled: Homeownership Works, released earlier this year. FULL STORY ->

Mortgage Rates Stay Low Helping to Keep Housing Affordability High
In Freddie Mac's results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey®, the average fixed mortgage rates remained largely unchanged and near their record lows helping to keep housing affordability high for those borrowers who are in the market. The 30-year fixed dipped to 3.99 percent, and at 3.27 percent, the 15-year fixed averaged just slightly above its all-time low of 3.26 percent on October 6, 2011. FULL STORY ->

Feds, Banks Postpone Foreclosure Evictions Until 2012
Government agencies and mortgage lenders have a little something to temporarily ease your holiday blues if you are a homeowner facing foreclosure -- the existing roof over your head until after the New Year. FULL STORY ->