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            <author>info@homesofminnesota.com (Homes of Minnesota Team)</author>
            <title>July National, State and Twin Cities Foreclosure News</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ A recent report show that foreclosure filings have declined since last fall. However, this real estate snap shot isn't a completely pretty picture.RealtyTrack, an Irvine California firm, has reported foreclosure filings have slowed and are down 25% nationally during the first half of 2011 as compared to the first half of last year. The rate is 29% lower compared to the rate from the second half of 2010. Still, a depressing total of 1,170,402 foreclosures were filed through the end of June, 2011.... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:01:38 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>info@homesofminnesota.com (Homes of Minnesota Team)</author>
            <title>Federal Program to Help 1,400 Minnesotans Facing Foreclosure</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ [UPDATE: The application deadline for this program has been extended through Wednesday, July 27, 2011]A new program offering money to catch up on delinquent loan payments is accepting applications in Minnesota. Qualified applicants should hurry, as the time frame for joining this program ends July 22.The Emergency Homeowners' Loan Program will provide up to $50,000 in interest-free, forgivable loans to qualified borrowers. The national program is designed to bring selected homeowners current on ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:09:25 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>info@homesofminnesota.com (Homes of Minnesota Team)</author>
            <title>Some good news for Twin Cities real estate in May</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ The local real estate market is making some progress, according to data released by a Twin Cities organization.Figures from the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors show that pending sales for May 2011 were up 13.2% from the year before, with 4,428 contracts signed. Part of the improvement is due to a drop in pending sales in May of last year, following the end of the federal first time homebuyer tax credit.Though the median sale price of homes decreased 12.6% to $152,950, the median sale pr... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:56:52 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>info@homesofminnesota.com (Homes of Minnesota Team)</author>
            <title>Foreclosure News in the Twin Cities</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ March was dismal for home sales in the Twin Cities are housing market - 
except for when it comes to foreclosures. Sales of homes in foreclosure 
rose dramatically compared to the same month of 2010.The number
 of signed purchase agreements in March was down compared to the year 
before, mainly because the first-time homebuyer tax credit was still 
stimulating the market at the time. There was a big drop-off last month 
in the number of homebuyers who didn't want a foreclosure or short sal... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 18:33:38 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>info@homesofminnesota.com (Homes of Minnesota Team)</author>
            <title>Busted House a Boon to Community</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ Five long years after it was snapped up by a bank in foreclosure, a dilapidated house at the intersection of Oakdale and Butler avenues in West St. Paul has been dropped into the hands of the city's economic development authority. The donation is an unusual opportunity amid the mortgage mess.In an emailed statement, U.S. Bank spokeswoman Teri Charest said the donation &quot;was the best option because of the value it provides the community. We applaud their efforts to turn this space into someth... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:02:05 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>info@homesofminnesota.com (Homes of Minnesota Team)</author>
            <title>Vacant Buildings Decline in Saint Paul</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ The number of registered vacant houses in the city of St. Paul has been dropping since hitting its peak in 2008. The number of houses being fixed up and put back on the tax rolls has also been increasing steadily.The number of registered vacant buildings in the city went from 370 in 2004 to a record of more than 2,000 in 2008. The number decreased to 1,600 in 2009 and about 1,500 last year. About 90% of the vacant properties are single-family residences or duplexes. Vacant houses only make up ab... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:01:32 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>info@homesofminnesota.com (Homes of Minnesota Team)</author>
            <title>Home Price Time Machine</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ The Finance and Commerce blog pointed us in the direction of a new way to look at which communities have been hit hardest by the foreclosure crisis. They mentioned that Calculated Risk had created a unique graphic that doesn't just look at how much housing prices have declined, it compares markets by how far backward in time housing prices have retreated.In the Twin Cities area, for instance, prices have fallen to the point they were at in 2001. In Dallas, prices have only retreated to 2006 pric... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 18:46:35 -0600</pubDate>
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            <author>info@homesofminnesota.com (Homes of Minnesota Team)</author>
            <title>To Buy a Foreclosure Home or Not to Buy a Foreclosure Home?</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ You may have heard the news that thousands of foreclosures around the country may be invalid because of bank paperwork problems. Multiple major lenders have frozen tens of thousands of foreclosures while paperwork is reviewed for mishandling.This could potentially impact people who have bought a foreclosed home, want to buy a foreclosed home, or financially distressed homeowners who are behind no their payments, even if they have not yet received a notice of foreclosure filing.For recent buyers ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 23:34:03 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>info@homesofminnesota.com (Homes of Minnesota Team)</author>
            <title>Campaign Signs at Vacant St. Paul Houses</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ Vacant and foreclosed houses and buildings in Saint Paul have started sprouting political campaign signs. One of the first people to notice the signs was a real estate agent who found a campaign sign for Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher on the lawn of a foreclosed St. Paul home. As sheriff, his office has a role in the foreclosure process. Gazing down the block, more signs were planted outside vacant houses. Though it may seem funny or harmless, it is a violation of Minnesota law to put signs ... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 20:00:49 -0500</pubDate>
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            <author>info@homesofminnesota.com (Homes of Minnesota Team)</author>
            <title>Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity Buys 8 Saint Paul Houses for $8</title>
            <description> <![CDATA[ Eight properties in St. Paul were purchased for $8 recently. The deal struck between St. Paul and Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity was for properties in two of the neighborhoods hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis. Seven are in Payne-Phalen, the eighth is in Summit-University.Five of the Payne-Phalen properties will be part of a program taking place this October when former President Jimmy Carter will visit to help build or fix up 20 homes in struggling Saint Paul and Minneapolis neighborhoods... ]]> </description>
            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 22:22:36 -0500</pubDate>
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