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		<title>New Home Permits in Marion Plummet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY RICHARD CONN
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OCALA - Permits issued in Marion County for new single-family homes during April dropped a whopping 71 percent from the same month last year.
The 168 permits issued last month were also the lowest monthly total since 2003, Building Department spokeswoman Tracy Gale said.
Building Director John O&#8217;Connor said that it&#8217;s difficult to gauge whether [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beck-realty.com/blog/2007/05/09/new-home-permits-in-marion-plummet/</link>
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		<title>How to Handle Low Ball Offers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By M. Anthony Carr

March 9, 2007
If your house has been on the market for quite a while (3 to 6 months), you may have already dropped your price and now you&#8217;re waiting for the buyers to rush in and make wonderful offers on this now-priced right property. And then it happens.
The lone buyer does appear, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beck-realty.com/blog/2007/03/27/how-to-handle-low-ball-offers/</link>
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		<title>Negotiation 201: Terms Over Price</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By M. Anthony Carr

March 16, 2007
Contrary to popular belief, the bottom line in contract negotiations is not always the bottom line. Obviously, how much you&#8217;re going to pay for or gain from the sale of a house is on the top of the spreadsheet; however, there are a certain percentage of contracts that fall apart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beck-realty.com/blog/2007/03/26/negotiation-201-terms-over-price/</link>
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		<title>Existing-Home Sales Post &#8216;Surprising&#8217; Gains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Existing-home sales rose strongly in February reaching the highest level since last April, and follows a healthy gain from January, according to the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORSÂ®.
Total existing-home sales â€” including single-family, townhomes, condominiums, and co-ops â€” rose 3.9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 6.69 million units in February from a downwardly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beck-realty.com/blog/2007/03/23/existing-home-sales-post-surprising-gains/</link>
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		<title>Florida House takes up affordable housing measure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[TALLAHASSEE, Fla. â€“ March 20, 2007 â€“ Floridaâ€™s House Committee on Infrastructure is considering legislation proposed by its chairman, Rep. Mike Davis (R-Naples), that aims to build on affordable-housing programs approved last year.
The bill would provide additional housing assistance to teachers and other public servants and base the taxable value of affordable housing on rental [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beck-realty.com/blog/2007/03/21/florida-house-takes-up-affordable-housing-measure/</link>
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		<title>Steady Climb Seen for Existing-Home Sales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Consumers are beginning to respond to more favorable housing market conditions, with existing home sales expected to steadily increase into 2008, according to the latest forecast by the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORSÂ®.
â€œAfter reaching what appears to be the bottom in the fourth quarter of 2006, we expect existing-home sales to gradually rise all this year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beck-realty.com/blog/2007/02/07/steady-climb-seen-for-existing-home-sales/</link>
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		<title>Housing too pricey? Aid exists â€“ for some</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ORLANDO, Fla. â€“ Jan. 29, 2007 â€“ Teachers, firefighters, police and other essential-services personnel who are being priced out of Central Floridaâ€™s housing market in Orange and Osceola counties got a boost Friday from a state program that awarded $10 million to build affordable dwellings for them.
The Florida Housing Finance Corporation (http://www.floridahousing.org) board agreed in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beck-realty.com/blog/2007/01/30/housing-too-pricey-aid-exists-%e2%80%93-for-some/</link>
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		<title>NAR: Gradual rise projected for home sales</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON â€“ Jan. 11, 2007 â€“ After bottoming in the fourth quarter of 2006, existing-home sales should gradually rise through 2007 and into 2008, while new-home sales should turnaround by summer, according to the latest forecast by the National Association of RealtorsÂ® (NAR).
David Lereah, NARâ€™s chief economist, says annual totals for existing-home sales will be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beck-realty.com/blog/2007/01/11/nar-gradual-rise-projected-for-home-sales/</link>
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		<title>NAR: Pending home sales indicate market stabilization</title>
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WASHINGTON â€“ Dec. 5, 2006 â€“ Pending home sales are hovering in a narrow range, another indication that a stabilization is occurring in the housing sector, according to the National Association of RealtorsÂ® (NAR).
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The Pending Home Sales Index, based on contracts signed in October, slipped 1.7 percent to a reading of 107.2 and is 13.2 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beck-realty.com/blog/2007/01/03/nar-pending-home-sales-indicate-market-stabilization/</link>
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		<title>Adviser: Worst of housing slump may be over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By JEANNINE AVERSA, AP Economics Writer Tue Dec 19, 3:06 PM ETÂ 

WASHINGTON - The worst of the housing slump might be over, although some pain is likely to linger, an adviser President BushÂ suggested Tuesday.
This year&#8217;s housing slowdown â€” which came off five straight years of booming activity â€” was a key force behind the overall [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://beck-realty.com/blog/2006/12/20/adviser-worst-of-housing-slump-may-over/</link>
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