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| USA Today | Real Estate | National |
| Housing official: Mortgage aid falls short, program changes coming |
| Nov 20, 2008 - Two government programs designed to help hundreds of thousands of delinquent borrowers avoid foreclosure are having negligible ...

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| New York Times | Real Estate | National |
| Ambac Reaches Agreement on $3.5 Billion in Exposure |
Nov 20, 2008 - The bond insurer said that it had reached an agreement with counterparties to terminate $3.5 billion of its exposures to risky mortgage-backed debt, which would improve its capital position.
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| Bizjournals | Real Estate | Northern Florida |
| Economy will rebound in 2009 |
| Nov 19, 2008 - The U.S, economy in the past 2 months "has declined faster than any of us have seen in our careers," Bank of America chief economist Lynn Reaser said Wednesday at a lunch hosted by the Economic Roundtable of Jacksonville. |
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| Bizjournals | Real Estate | South Florida |
| Parkland project moves forward |
| Nov 19, 2008 - Lennar Corp.’s massive Parkland development has cleared another hurdle toward approval from Miami-Dade County. |
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| Bizjournals | Real Estate | Central Florida |
| October architecture billings fall |
| Nov 19, 2008 - The American Institute of Architects reported its Architectural Billings Index last month hit its lowest level since the group began tracking the figures in 1995. |
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| Bizjournals | Real Estate | Central Florida |
| Community Health bans tobacco |
| Nov 19, 2008 - Community Health Centers Inc.’s 10 clinics in Orange and Lake counties will impose a tobacco ban Nov. 20 — the date of the American Cancer Society's 33rd Great American Smokeout. |
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| Bizjournals | Real Estate | South Florida |
| S. Fla. has eight-month backlog of unsold homes |
| Nov 19, 2008 - South Florida has more than eight months’ worth of unsold homes in the pipeline, according to Metrostudy, a national housing research company. |
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| Bizjournals | Real Estate | Northern Florida |
| Conference focuses on logistics in Florida |
| Nov 19, 2008 - A two-day conference for private equity firms and lenders interested in investing in Florida private companies kicked off with tours of Jaxport, Cecil Field and Cecil Commerce Center. |
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| Bizjournals | Real Estate | Central Florida |
| Seminole schools gets $356,120 grant |
| Nov 19, 2008 - AT&T Inc. has awarded $356,120 over the next four years to the Seminole County School District to support its transition program for ninth-graders who achieved limited academic success in eighth grade. |
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| Bizjournals | Real Estate | Central Florida |
| Orlando 3Q home sales up, values fall |
| Nov 19, 2008 - The Orlando market saw an uptick in single-family home sales for the third quarter, but a continued drop in existing condo sales and values for all homes, according to the Florida Association of Realtors. |
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