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		<title>Will 2012 Bring a Housing Recovery? Some Experts Think So</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2011/12/26/will-2012-bring-housing-recovery-some-experts-think-so/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2011/12/26/will-2012-bring-housing-recovery-some-experts-think-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Flammer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Improved jobs numbers and stabilized prices for nondistressed homes leads investment bank Barclays Capital analyst Stephen Kim to believe that a housing market recovery is on the horizon. This is great news for those that own Chicago real estate. Key to his prediction though is the fact that prices for nondistressed homes will have stabilized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Builders On: Less New Homes Going Up</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2011/09/20/builders-on-less-new-homes-going-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2011/09/20/builders-on-less-new-homes-going-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[August building permits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[August housing starts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[builder confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commerce Department]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/?p=22532</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday, Chicago Real Estate Forum discussed builder confidence falling in the market for newly built, single-family homes. Looks like those builders were right. The Commerce Department on Tuesday released its residential construction statistics for August 2011 to show that U.S. housing starts fell 5.0 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 571,000 units. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Home Construction Struggling</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2011/06/18/new-home-construction-struggling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2011/06/18/new-home-construction-struggling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[builder confidence June]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[housing market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing Market Index June]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/?p=19070</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Builders aren&#8217;t feeling very confident these days. According to June&#8217;s National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI), builder confidence in the market for newly built, single-family homes fell three points to 13. Any score over 50 means that more builders see sales conditions as good rather than poor. The last time the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Week Later: Your Thoughts on the Housing Market?</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2011/06/16/a-week-later-your-thoughts-on-the-housing-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2011/06/16/a-week-later-your-thoughts-on-the-housing-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carol Flammer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago Real Estate News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal Tax Credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago home values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equifax personal finance blog]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/?p=18959</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chicago and the U.S. received another round of gloomy forecasts for the real estate market last week. According to the Equifax Personal Finance Blog, a wide array of different sources confirmed the bad news for American homeowners, would-be buyers and the housing market as a whole. Real estate expert Ilyce Glink reported this news in her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GSE Housing Financers Being Shown the Door</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2011/02/11/gse-housing-financers-being-shown-the-door/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2011/02/11/gse-housing-financers-being-shown-the-door/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mortgages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fannie Mae]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/?p=14145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fannie and Freddie are dead. That&#8217;s how the Obama administration described troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Friday. The government-sponsored entities, or GSEs, are seen as partly responsible for the breakdown of the 2008 housing and financial markets. But even before the crisis, opponents warned that the mortgage houses were risky, mainly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Builder Confidence in New Construction Up for Second Straight Month</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2010/11/16/builder-confidence-in-new-construction-up-for-second-straight-month/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2010/11/16/builder-confidence-in-new-construction-up-for-second-straight-month/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 20:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Single Family Homes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[HMI]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/?p=10717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night on the radio I heard a report that the builder confidence index regarding new home construction was coming out today and that experts expected bad news. I&#8217;m happy to report that they were wrong. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Index (HMI) for November did in fact come out today, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago and Suburban Home Sales Keep Moving Up</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2010/07/22/chicago-and-suburban-home-sales-keep-moving-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2010/07/22/chicago-and-suburban-home-sales-keep-moving-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chicago Real Estate News]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/?p=6593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago real estate market is showing signs of stabilization. On Thursday, the Illinois Association of Realtors (IAR) reported that existing home sales went up for the 10th straight month in Chicago and throughout Illinois. According to IAR&#8217;s latest report, there were 2,526 total home sales in June 2010 in the city of Chicago; that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Construction Activity Saw Largest Increase in Almost 10 Years</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2010/06/01/construction-activity-saw-largest-increase-in-almost-10-years/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2010/06/01/construction-activity-saw-largest-increase-in-almost-10-years/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chicago Real Estate News]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[construction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic recovery]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/?p=5148</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The hardest-hit sector of the real estate industry is showing signs of improvement. The U.S. Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce on Tuesday announced that construction spending throughout the nation in April 2010 rose by 2.7 percent to an annual rate of $869.1 billion compared to March. That&#8217;s the largest one-month increase since August [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Site Upgrade Makes Virtual Home Tour Better Than Reality</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2010/05/26/web-site-upgrade-makes-virtual-home-tour-better-than-reality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2010/05/26/web-site-upgrade-makes-virtual-home-tour-better-than-reality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 17:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Internet Marketing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[housing market]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/?p=4969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the olden days, when the only way to see an open house was to make an appointment and walk around it? Today, through web sites such as FloorPlanOnline (FPO), you can virtually tour houses from your own home on your computer. And now, an upgrade of that web site takes the virtual tour even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Prices in Illinois Finally Inching Up</title>
		<link>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2010/05/24/home-prices-in-illinois-finally-inching-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/2010/05/24/home-prices-in-illinois-finally-inching-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 21:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tracey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chicago Real Estate News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cook]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dupage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Will]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.chicagolandrealestateforum.com/?p=4942</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Good news about the Illinois and Chicago real estate market is so nice, isn&#8217;t it? Well, here is some more, and it happens to be the news we&#8217;ve been waiting for. Each month this year we&#8217;ve reported on an increase in sales, and April was no different. According to the Illinois Association of REALTORS, 10,323 [...]]]></description>
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