Loudoun County news in brief
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Loudoun County will offer a free post-purchase counseling seminar to recent and prospective home buyers. The quarterly seminars, which will be administered ...

Study argues stimulus, other action averted second Great Depression; others ...
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This was before Obama's $787 billion stimulus, before the cash-for-clunkers program, before the home-buyer subsidies and so on. "These forecasts assumed no ...

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Street tables, orphan blocks: DC's blogs
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U Street Girl looked a restaurant inspection reports (always a good source of headlines). Meanwhile, Georgetown University's mascot was a target of a high ...

Meritage Homes swings to 2Q profit
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The homebuilder closed 36 percent more homes during the quarter as many homebuyers raced to wrap up deals in time to qualify for federal tax credits. ...

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DC area housing market relatively insulated from downturn, report finds
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A recently expired home-buyer tax credit -- $8000 for some first-time buyers and $6500 for certain repeat buyers -- also helped boost area sales in the ...

Senate GOP to hold hearings on Black Panther tale?
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That banks talked minority home buyers to subprime loans, EVEN WHEN THEY QUALIFIED FOR CONVENTIONAL LOANS only exacerbates the problem. ...

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Week ahead: Lots of economic data out this week, including Q2 GDP
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Sales plummeted 32.7 percent in May, after the expiration of a home buyers tax credit, so the question is whether the post-credit collapse is done with and ...

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Wikileaks, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Taliban
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Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection. "When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two senators would come every year to ...

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What went wrong with stimulus
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20/20 hindsight, the homebuyers tax credit was a waste, and there should have been better planning for how the unemployment extensions end. but other than ...

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Financial news schedule: July 26-Aug. 1
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Sales plummeted 32.7 percent in May, after the expiration of a home buyers tax credit, so the question is whether the post-credit collapse is done with and ...

Call it the great real estate disconnect of 2010: Mortgage rates have been at half-century lows and home prices have stabilized, but applications for mortgages have declined most weeks during the past three months, as measured by the Mortgage Bankers Association.

"It's the first time in our lives we've been hip. And it came to us -- we didn't go to it," said Melissa Talley, 51, winner of The Post's Mad Men Look contest.


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The housing bust isn't over, but the worst is past, according to economists participating in a U.S. Chamber of Commerce panel this week.


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When Kathy Weigel moved into her brick rambler in the community of North Town Creek in St. Mary's County in 1993, she got an unusual housewarming gift: a military-base ID card for the wife of Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad. The Conrads lived in the house in the 1950s, and the card was discovered...


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Q: In 1997, we created a living will for estate protection in case my mom went into a nursing home. It was set up so my sister and her husband received half the house while my sister's three kids got the other half.


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Call it the great real estate disconnect of 2010: Mortgage rates have been at half-century lows and home prices have stabilized, but applications for mortgages have declined most weeks during the past three months, as measured by the Mortgage Bankers Association.



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If you are trying to sell your home, you can rise above the competition by designing curb appeal into your property.


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Real estate settlements are often shrouded in mystery. There are many moving parts, multiple parties sitting impatiently at the table and piles of documents filled with legal mumbo jumbo.


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BOUNDARIES: Shady Mile Drive to the north, Route 235 to the west, Maple Road to the south and Dent Drive to the east.


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DEAR TIM: I'm restoring an older home that has a patio porch deck. It's covered, so perhaps it's just a deck porch. The wood was painted but is in bad shape due to neglect. What material would you install if you wanted to maintain the character of the house? I've seen composite porch decking, but...



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