A Hot Home Market Causes New Headaches in Small Coastal Cities
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By Brenneman, Kristina  BANDON - Home sales typically suffer the winter blahs, but not in Bandon. It's as if the world-famous Bandon Dunes golf course turned this sleepy town into real-estate gold especially when you can see the Pacific Ocean from the living room couch.
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Despite a slight slump in home prices, high housing costs trouble local residents more than concerns about education and healthcare, a new poll showed.
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The bloodbath in the residential mortgage market is attracting some creatures of a darker disposition.
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By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Sep. 15--It is tempting to hurl rhetorical firebombs at a political system that fails to protect homeowners from fireworks damage just because they live in unincorporated areas. And to scorch the S.C.
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The latest data indicates that slowing home sales and the rising number of properties for sale is forcing more sellers to reduce prices in many locations across the country.
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The home improvement chain warned that dry conditions in some parts of the United States were hurting sales of outdoor products.
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Wildfires in Southern California  are exacerbating a difficult retail environment in a state  already hit by declining home sales and mortgage woes that have  cut into consumer spending.
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A new study by the RAND Corp. think tank found that people in high-sprawl regions have more health problems such as diabetes, breathing difficulties, migraine headaches and high blood pressure.
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Thanks in part to an explosion of demand for air-conditioners in hot places like India and China, the ozone layer is proving very hard to repair.
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The Small Business Administration steps up aid to businesses affected by recent weather-related disasters. Oct. 4, 2004 --As home and business owners throughout Florida and the Southwestern US pull things
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Drought, housing expansion, and oversupply of tinder make for bigger, hotter fires.
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Throughout the night, Hurricane Frances was lumbering by and Adam Nemec's stomach was churning. The winds howled and trees groaned before snapping outside the four-bedroom ranch-style house he bought two years ago.
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The price of home insurance on Cape Cod and the tony islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket is soaring, but thousands of homeowners are being insulated from the price shocks by a state regulatory system originally set up to protect low-income residents of inner-city neighborhoods.
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Seeking opportunity in a market clouded by fear.
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By Thomas R. Webber  With the recent heat wave we have all been baking through, it may be hard to believe that this month marks the change of seasons.
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When the Washington area's housing market boomed at the turn of the century, so did local government spending. Now a cooler market is creating budget gaps in a region that until recently was spared leaner times.
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For some prospective home buyers in Southern California, the effect of the U.S. mortgage crisis has been to keep them on the sidelines of the home market, wary of stepping in for fear prices will fall further.