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		<title>Six Myths Surrounding the Home Buyer Tax Credit</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great video on the important points of the homebuyer tax credit&#8230; http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/living/2009/11/08/nr.homebuyer.tax.credit.cnn
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		<title>Obama to Sign Tax Credit Extension Today!</title>
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		<title>Tax Credit Likely to Be Extended, and Include Move Up Buyers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>End of the Recession?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:18:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See the Pittsburgh Post Gazette&#8217;s take on &#8220;what it will take&#8221;
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		<title>Six Signs Your Home May Increase in Value&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The housing market shows signs of a recovery. Is the Pittsburgh area on the upswing? http://www.smartmoney.com/personal-finance/real-estate/6-signs-your-home-will-increase-in-value/?cid=1108
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		<title>If you&#8217;ve been sitting on the real estate fence, it&#8217;s time to act&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In short, the data suggest that real-estate prices hit a bottom some time during the second quarter, and have now begun to rise. There&#8217;s no way to be certain that this marks the end of the long, painful correction that followed the real-estate bubble, but clearly prices are no longer in free-fall. That means if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prudentialpreferred.wordpress.com&blog=3801896&post=281&subd=prudentialpreferred&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsburgh Named &#8220;Cheaper to BUY than RENT!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://prudentialpreferred.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/pittsburgh-cheaper-to-buy-than-rent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 20 metro areas around the U.S., the cost of buying a home is only a little more — and in two metros actually less — than renting
Number # 2. Pittsburgh Metro (Penn.)Own/rent ratio: 97%Annual cost to own: $8,947Annual cost to rent: $9,252The Pittsburgh area has a population of about 2.3 million. The former steel town now has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prudentialpreferred.wordpress.com&blog=3801896&post=277&subd=prudentialpreferred&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The housing market is a buyer&#8217;s market and they are buying!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Existing home sales jump to two year high! The National Association of Realtors reports sales of existing homes jumped 7.2 percent in July, the biggest monthly increase since it began keeping track in 1999.
Sales rose to an annual pace of 5.24 million. It was the fourth consecutive monthly increase in existing home sales, the longest streak since June [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prudentialpreferred.wordpress.com&blog=3801896&post=272&subd=prudentialpreferred&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pittsburgh Ranked in Top 10 US Housing Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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Are there really places around the U.S. where home values are going up? How about right here in Pittsburgh! According to real-estate site Zillow.com&#8217;s second-quarter home value index, there are more than 30 metro areas across the country where values have risen from the first quarter of the year to the second quarter. And Pittsburgh [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prudentialpreferred.wordpress.com&blog=3801896&post=269&subd=prudentialpreferred&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>UPMC Honored as one of the Best of the Best in USA!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America&#8217;s Best Hospitals: the 2009–10 Honor Roll They&#8217;re the best of the best—the 0.4 percent of all hospitals with high scores in 6 or more specialties . This year, the 20th for Best Hospitals, institutions are ranked in 16 specialties, from cancer and heart disease to respiratory disorders and urology. A total of 4,861 hospitals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=prudentialpreferred.wordpress.com&blog=3801896&post=267&subd=prudentialpreferred&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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