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Reid meets his match in Arizona in land tax-assessment challenge

For his part, Mr. Nicholson, a Republican, lowered the value of Mr. Reid’s property for 2011 to $683866 as part of a countywide revaluation after the collapse of Arizona’s real estate market, and the assessment will be $464250 for 2012, records show.
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3Jul2011 | Washington Times | Continued
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Mortgage Q&A: Client fails refi math test

By Henry Savage SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES Last week, I applauded the fact that interest rates are low, and I pointed out that it’s not helping the sluggish real estate market. I also noted that the drop in property values is prompting some
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23Jun2011 | Washington Times | Continued
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Mortgage Q&A: Inflation fear behind Fed change

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Why would the Fed want to raise rates when the economy and the real estate market are still suffering? A. Yours is a very good question.

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19Mar2010 | Washington Times | Continued
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Federal indictment names father, son in organized crime

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By Jeffrey Anderson A prominent Baltimore bail bondsman and real estate owner, once described by a federal prosecutor as “one of the most notorious drug

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18Mar2010 | Washington Times | Continued
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Charting the market: Patchwork foreclosure patterns

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Real estate is local, as you know, so you have to consider each county (and even neighborhood) to be its own market. And one year’s data doesn’t tell the

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11Mar2010 | Washington Times | Continued
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TYREE: Spend, spend, spend goes the folly

Many of the early Midwestern railroads were roads to nowhere, built on the fond expectations of real estate speculators that development would follow the

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1Mar2010 | Washington Times | Continued
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Cover story: To sell and buy with the same agent?

Peggy Speaker, an associate broker with Long & Foster Real Estate in the District, says that on the listing side, she feels confident she can give advice

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18Feb2010 | Washington Times | Continued
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BIRNBAUM: Democrats have left a power vacuum

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Commercial real estate and the credit markets are still reeling. China, the new engine of global growth, is applying the brakes and, soon,

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16Feb2010 | Washington Times | Continued
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Sagging senators seek Obama bump

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Polls show a slew of Republican challengers – among them Mrs. Lowden and Las Vegas real estate developer Danny Tarkanian – ahead of Mr. Reid in potential

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16Feb2010 | Washington Times | Continued
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WH wants to help firms with property loans

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Mr. Obama said allowing small firms to refinance their commerical real estate loans and mortgages through the SBA would help them secure the capital they

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5Feb2010 | Washington Times | Continued