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Investment Sales Down

Vacation-home sales recovered in 2009 while investment sales fell sharply, according to the National Association of Realtors®. NAR’s 2010 Investment and Vacation Home Buyers Survey, covering existing- and new-home transactions in 2009, shows vacation-home sales rose 7.9 percent to 553,000 last year from 513,000 in 2008, while investment-home sales fell 15.9 percent to 940,000 in [...]
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Real Estate Hardest-Hit Fund

WASHINGTON, DC — The Obama Administration released the next steps in the recently announced Housing Finance Agency Innovation Fund for the Hardest Hit Housing Markets (“HFA Hardest-Hit Fund”). On February 19, 2010, President Obama announced additional funding for innovative measures to help families in the states that have been hit the hardest by the aftermath [...]
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American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009

The Energy Information Administration has released a report analyzing H.R. 2454 energy legislation. The major impact of the bill is “cap and trade”. Under the plan, greenhouse gases will be capped and reduced through 2050. Read The American Clean Energy Report
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CFTC Charges Philadelphia-area Resident with Operating $50 Million Ponzi Scheme

Release: 5594-09 For Release: January 8, 2009 CFTC Charges Philadelphia-area Resident with Operating $50 Million Ponzi Scheme Joseph S. Forte Confesses to Fraud Scheme and Failing to Register with the CFTC Washington, DC – The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced today that it charged Joseph S. Forte of Broomall, Pennsylvania with operating a [...]
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