Sidelined home buyers frozen by fears
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Home prices have plunged by 10 percent or more in some parts of the United States and interest rates on mortgages are at enticing levels, but many potential buyers are waiting for prices to fall further.
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Tiffanyâs holiday slowdown was unexpected and sent jitters through the luxury-goods industry, which had seemed invulnerable, even as the housing market began to sputter.
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According to a survey released earlier this week, denial is precisely what appears to be at work in the minds of many homeowners across the United States.
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Danger lurks down the road for people with interest-only mortgages.
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WASHINGTON -- Pending sales of existing homes fell in July to the lowest level in nearly six years as the mortgage market's troubles made it tough for many borrowers to finalize home purchases.
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Business & money: Â· Buyers renegotiate deal in face of tighter creditÂ· Housing sales fall for five successive months.
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Homes priced out of buyers' reach and unsold inventory could derail analysts' predictions that the market is near its bottom.
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A survey says first-time buyers cannot afford to get on the property ladder in most of the UK's towns. Are you affected?
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And so the great real estate boom has ended. Left in its wake are anxious sellers and hopeful renters, fidgety buyers and freebie-wielding developers, deserted open houses and blocks crowded with for-sale signs, scaled-back retirement plans and first-time homes that suddenly seem within reach.
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UK buyers take fright as thousands of illegally built homes are threatened with demolition
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Sellers worry that their costs will rise and they will have less protection against malicious buyers.
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Slowing real estate sales coupled with the subprime mortgage mess are two of the reasons some people say a recession is nigh.
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Pending sales of previously owned homes fell by a surprising 12.2 percent in July as credit tightened up amid troubles in the housing and subprime mortgage sectors, a real estate trade group said on Wednesday
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Rising energy prices and slow job growth make buyers cautious as the nation heads into the holiday season.
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A third of first-time home buyers may cut their offer for a property at the last minute, a survey finds.
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Homeowners unable to pay monthly mortgage bills and facing foreclosure shouldn't count on help from Washington this year. Regulators and lawmakers seem to be taking a wait-and-see approach as they confront the fallout from several years of lenders making too many home loans to people with inadequate credit.
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Investors have grown increasingly anxious about how soaring energy costs might dent consumer spending ahead of the what is widely expected to be a chillier than normal winter.