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		<title>SoCal Real Estate Improves (Overview)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wickstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southern California’s housing market continued its step-by-step climb up from the January-February bottom as both sales and prices saw gains last month, a real estate information service reported.
A total of 19,181 new and resale homes sold in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Diego, Ventura, San Bernardino and Orange counties last month. That was down 13.3 percent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=straightforwardfinancial.wordpress.com&blog=3953060&post=614&subd=straightforwardfinancial&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rates Still Low, Pending Sales Up 32% From 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wickstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After falling to the lowest level in at least 38 years, long-term mortgages followed bond yields higher this week.
A 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaged 4.81 percent in the week ending Dec. 10, up from 4.71 percent last week. Long-term rates are still well below year ago levels, when 30 year mortgages averaged 5.47 percent.
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		<title>Find Out HERE if Your Loan is Owned by Freddie or Fannie</title>
		<link>http://straightforwardfinancial.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/find-out-here-if-your-loan-is-owned-by-freddie-or-fannie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wickstrom</dc:creator>
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There are amazing refinance opportunities at my fingertips for many clients who would otherwise not qualify for today’s great rates.  This is part of the Economic Stimulus plan that is actually helping plenty of my clients to save money at a time when every penny counts.  One major factor is to find out if Fannie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=straightforwardfinancial.wordpress.com&blog=3953060&post=605&subd=straightforwardfinancial&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lowest Mortgage Rates Ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wickstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The average rate on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell to 4.78 percent last week, matching the lowest level on record since Freddie Mac started keeping track in 1971.
The previous all-time low was set in April of this year.
Average rates on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages fell to 4.18 percent, the lowest since at least 2005, when Freddie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=straightforwardfinancial.wordpress.com&blog=3953060&post=604&subd=straightforwardfinancial&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Home Purchase Tax Credit Details</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wickstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visit this secure link for the most current and accurate information regarding the newly extended and expanded home purchase tax credit.
http://www.federalhousingtaxcredit.com/
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		<title>Senate Approves, Extends, and Expands Homebuyer Tax Credit</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wickstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Senate today voted unanimously Wednesday night to extend the $8,000 tax credit for home buyers beyond its scheduled November 30, 2009 expiration date.  The credit would be available until April 30, 2010.  Under the new legislation the credit will also now apply to home buyers who are buying their second or subsequent home.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=straightforwardfinancial.wordpress.com&blog=3953060&post=600&subd=straightforwardfinancial&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pending Home Sales Up, Here&#8217;s Why!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wickstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) &#8212; The number of contracts to buy previously owned homes in the U.S. rose in September for an eighth straight month as Americans rushed to meet a deadline for a home-buyer tax credit.
The index of signed purchase agreements, or pending home sales, rose 6.1 percent after a 6.4 percent gain in August, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=straightforwardfinancial.wordpress.com&blog=3953060&post=596&subd=straightforwardfinancial&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Consumer Confidence at a 26 Year Low</title>
		<link>http://straightforwardfinancial.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/consumer-confidence-at-a-26-year-low/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wickstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) &#8212; A key measure of consumer confidence continued to slip in October, with consumers&#8217; gauge of the current economic situation falling to a 26-year low, a research group said Tuesday.
The Conference Board, the New York-based research group said its Consumer Confidence Index fell to 47.7 in October from an upwardly revised 53.4 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=straightforwardfinancial.wordpress.com&blog=3953060&post=594&subd=straightforwardfinancial&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage Rates As Low As They&#8217;ll Get!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wickstrom</dc:creator>
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Federal Reserve Mortgage Backed Securities Purchase Program is Coming to an End 
 
Homebuyers &#38; Refinancers  only have brief window to grab the sub-5-percent rates we’re seeing now. Michael Cauley, a broker with Mortgage Resource Plus Inc. in Birmingham, notes that even though the Fed’s $1.25 trillion Mortgage-Backed  Securities buying spree isn’t ending until April, it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=straightforwardfinancial.wordpress.com&blog=3953060&post=587&subd=straightforwardfinancial&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rates At Low, Gradual Increase Over Next Few Months</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Wickstrom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Detroit News &#8211; If you&#8217;ve been waiting to see how low mortgage rates can go, you can stop. This is it.
The latest surveys show the national average rate on 30-year mortgages  stayed below 5 percent for the second or third week in a row, depending on which surveys you choose. While these ultra-low rates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=straightforwardfinancial.wordpress.com&blog=3953060&post=579&subd=straightforwardfinancial&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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