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		<title>WSJ:  Real culprit in the foreclosure crisis is not subprimes, it’s negative equity loans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Brunner, CEO of VAR</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Excellent piece in today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal on what&#8217;s really behind the explosion in foreclosures.
It&#8217;s not subprime mortgages or liar loans or even rate resets, according to the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>HARP Throws Life-Line to “Upside-Down” Homeowners</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danilo Bogdanovic</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Many homeowners who are trying to refinance, but can&#8217;t because they are &#8220;upside-down&#8221; have just been thrown a life-line. The Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) has just been...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Climate bill and real estate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Kantor, Blogmaster</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[So the House passed the climate bill. Or the energy and climate-change bill. Or the American Clean Energy and Security Act. Or whatever you want to call it. It&#8217;s got stuff to annoy the heck out...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Commonwealth Contest winner!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Kantor, Blogmaster</dc:creator>
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		<title>Commonwealth contest instructions!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Kantor, Blogmaster</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ready to see if you&#8217;ll win a Flip Mino HD camcorder? Then let&#8217;s get to it. 

Read all these instructions carefully before proceeding.
You have five answers from the magazine. Take the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Form Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Blake Hegeman, VAR Associate Counsel</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Virginia Association of REALTORS® has made the following changes to its forms:
Form 600 (Residential Contract of Purchase) has been updated. Section 18 has been revised to include statutorily...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Short sales &amp; REOs continue to frustrate</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Martin, blogmaster emeritus</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[NAR reports that 40% of Realtors have been involved in the sale of a distressed property over the past year. With over a million transactions per year, inevitably a few will go bad, regardless of the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>What was hot in Commonwealth Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Kantor, Blogmaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business of Realty]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The June issue of Commonwealth Online had one of the highest clickthrough rates ever thanks to things like the first-time homebuyer’s credit and all those new laws passed by the General Assembly.
The...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Home sales in May: Good and bad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Kantor, Blogmaster</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The good news: May existing-home sales were up over April (2.4 percent, according to NAR). The bad news: They were down 3.6 percent from May 2008. 
My conundrum when writing this: Do I focus on the...<div class="feedflare">
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		<title>Smartphones: BlackBerry is #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Kantor, Blogmaster</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Get this: RIM pretty much controls the smartphone market these days. The BlackBerry Curve is #1 in the market, the BlackBerry Storm is #3, and the BlackBerry Pearl is #4. (Apple’s iPhone lost 10...<div class="feedflare">
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