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	<description>Thoughts and ideas to help you move &#34;Onward and Upward&#34;</description>
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		<title>December home sales down nearly 17 percent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON – Sales of previously occupied homes took the largest monthly drop in more than 40 years last month, sinking more dramatically than expected after lawmakers gave buyers additional time to use a tax credit. The report reflects a sharp drop in demand after buyers stopped scrambling to qualify for a tax credit of up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Cheap Ways to Boost Your Sales Price by Spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the temperature drops and the snow piles up, it&#8217;s easy to forget that spring is quickly approaching. And after more than three years of a painful housing swoon, real estate experts predict that lower prices, attractive mortgage rates, and a tax perk from Uncle Sam will create the most vibrant spring home selling season [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Home Upgrades That Don&#8217;t Pay</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re getting ready to put your house on the market, you have my condolences. It&#8217;s no secret that the real estate market is extremely tough right now, particularly for sellers. Because the U.S. housing market is flooded with unsold inventory, homebuyers have countless choices available to them &#8211; which gives them all the power. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumers Spend on Brands with Social Purpose – and Encourage Others Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you in the business of building homes or building better communities? Do you offer more than a &#8220;great&#8221; buy? Does your product help or hinder the environment? According to the third annual Edelman goodpurposeTM Consumer Study your answer to these questions may just affect your future sustainability as a real estate builder, developer, contractor, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home construction: Builders step in to take over where others failed</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you listen closely, you can hear the faint sound of crews delivering drywall and carpenters firing nail guns. In Aurora, M/I Homes Inc. just closed a deal with a lender to buy lots for 60 town homes at The Plaza on New York, formerly a Wiseman-Hughes Enterprises project. On Joliet&#8217;s east side, Cambridge Homes [...]]]></description>
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