No housing woes in booming Washington state
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While California suffers in the housing crisis, the economy of nearby Washington state is flourishing with strong job growth and some of the highest appreciation in home prices in the nation.
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Southwest Washington is an antique vision of the future. It's mid-century's idea of "progress," a never-to-be-repeated experiment in bulldozing shabby if genuine neighborhoods and replacing them with chilly high-rise modernity. To this day it struggles to present much sense of life or soul.
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The fundamentals (eg, wage or population growth) are present to support a strong property market in Hong Kong. Wages in Hong Kong are not rising.
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Sen. John Kerry has a lot of worries in the closing days of the presidential election, but Washington state is not one of them.
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Sales of new homes rose 16.2 percent  in April, the sharpest climb in fourteen years, while prices  fell a record 11 percent, according to a government report on  Thursday that showed home builders taking extraordinary steps  to move houses.
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WASHINGTON -- Most parts of the country saw modest economic growth in the past month, although there were pockets of sluggishness as businesses continued to cope with fallout from the troubled housing and automotive industries.
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WASHINGTON : Home building in the United States soared by an unexpectedly steep 8.3 percent in July, recovering from a slump the previous month as weather improved, a government report showed.
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SEATTLE, Washington  -- More than a million
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WASHINGTON -- State finances remained stable so far this fiscal year, with revenues on target or better and fewer states spending more than they planned, the National Conference of State Legislatures reported.
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Jun. 19--Northwest ratepayers got a boost recently when Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., convinced the House Natural Resources Committee to agree that hydropower is a renewable energy resource.
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House price growth remains strong despite concerns about interest rate rises, Land Registry figures show.
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The number of homes on the market is big, and likely to get much bigger.
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Even when experts were declaring the economy healthy, many Americans voiced a vague, but persistent dissatisfaction. True, jobs were relatively plentiful over the last few years. It was easy to borrow and very cheap. The sharp rise in the value of homes and plentiful credit cards encouraged a nation of consumers to get out and buy. But to many people, something didn't feel right, even if they couldn't quite explain why.
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By Victoria Pierce Daily Herald Correspondent  With big yards, beautiful homes, good schools and plenty of restaurants and other amenities nearby, you'd think people in the suburbs would be happy all the time.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Feb.
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The most satisfied new-home buyers in the Washington area last year were those who purchased a home from Pulte Homes Inc., the nation&#39;s largest builder, according to a survey released this week.
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Sales of new U.S. homes defied  predictions of a slowdown in April and rose 4.9 percent while  prices climbed, although the supply of homes for sale hit a  record, a government report showed on Wednesday.