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The Home Buying Process: Step by Step (Benton Evening News)
(ARA) - Buying a home can be a very intimidating process, especially if you've never done it before. So the first thing you should do before you start is to figure out whether owning a home is right for you.

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Simple Solutions to Home Buying Challenges (Richfield Reaper)
(ARA) - Home ownership is central to the American dream. And the good news is, it's a dream that can easily become reality. That's because today's lenders offer a variety of products to fit virtually every borrower's needs, points out Michael A. Drury, senior vice president of mortgage lending for M&T Bank Mortgage Division . Finding the right lending partner can make home buying easy and ...

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Selling Homes plus Home Buying Equals One New Innovative Website to Trade Homes, OnlineHouseTrading.com (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
OnlineHouseTrading.com is a revolutionary website which allows people both selling homes and in the market for home buying to connect each other, where two sellers sell to each other. The site combines breakthrough technology with a truly user-friendly website.

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Chasm grows between home lenders and self-employed (USA Today)
David Brannan, 44, of Monroe, N.C., is co-founder of a software company that's been in business since 1989. He and his wife have owned their home for 18 years and are in the process of buying a new, custom-built home. Brannan has an excellent credit score. So he was stunned last week when CitiMortgage rejected his mortgage application.

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Foreclosures not helping home-buying programs (The Oshkosh Northwestern)
Agencies that work with low and moderate-income residents assisting them in home-buying are not reporting great success despite an increased number of homes on the market due to a rise in foreclosures.

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TD Bank Financial to buy N.J.-based bank (The Charlotte Observer)
Canada's second largest bank is bidding to bulk up its south-of-the-border presence by buying New Jersey-based Commerce Bancorp for $8.5 billion in cash and stock.The deal announced Tuesday would nearly double TD Bank Financial Group's United States presence, adding Commerce's roughly 460 branches on the East Coast. TD Bank, with a market capitalization of $52.2 billion, is Canada's ...

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Stocks slip on home sales data (AP via Yahoo! News)
Stocks fell Tuesday as investors disappointed by a sharp drop in pending home sales decided to preserve some profits from the rally that sent the Dow Jones industrial average back into record territory.

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Stocks dip after pending home sales fall (AP via Yahoo! News)
Stocks slipped Tuesday as investors disappointed by a sharp drop in pending home sales struggled to extend a rally that sent the Dow Jones industrial average back above 14,000.

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Free Courses Offered On Buying Home (The Tampa Tribune)
NEW PORT RICHEY - Yes, property taxes are up, and so are home foreclosures, but people still long to buy their own home.

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Home Depot gets 'cozy' with female shoppers (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Just six months after the launch of a small-store format in California, Home Depot is testing another retail concept, this time with female shoppers in mind. Home Depot executives confirmed this week that two stores, each dubbed Home Depot Design Center, will open later this month in Concord, Calif., and Charlotte, N.C. Unlike the small-store test, these stores are roughly the same size as a ...

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