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Pending home sales tumble to record low in July

Contracts to buy existing homes in the U.S. fell to a record low in July as rising prices and higher borrowing costs drove potential buyers out of the market. The National Association of Realtors on Thursday Pending Home Sales IndexThe index, based on signed contracts, fell 5.5 percent last month to 70.2, the lowest since […]

Former Baltimore prosecutor attends BBQ held in her honor while on home detention

Former Baltimore City Attorney Marilyn Mosby, despite being ordered by a judge to serve a year of house arrest, was partying with friends, supporters and family over the weekend at an event just a few miles from her Baltimore home. Mosby was convicted of mortgage fraud in February after testifying that he unintentionally made false […]

I turned my home into an 1850s Wild West town

A man lives in a dual time-warp house, with the inside set in the 1950s and the outside set in an 1850s Wild West town. Billy Gibbons, 68, renovated the home into a 1950s haven after his parents died in the mid-1990s. In the lounge, with its craggy, sepia-coloured walls, there's an original Bakelite TV […]

Gavin Newsom to Decide After CA Democrats Pass $150,000 Home Loans for Illegal Aliens

California Governor Gavin Newsom is set to make a final decision on legislation that would allow undocumented immigrants to get $150,000 mortgages as first-time home buyers after the state Legislature passed the final version of the bill on Wednesday. AB 1840, @AsmArambula The bill, which would expand the state's down payment assistance program to undocumented […]

White Sox season hits new low with painful mishap, home run robbery

Wednesday's game against the Texas Rangers featured a couple of wild plays that went against the White Sox, but no game may better represent the 2024 Chicago White Sox. Chicago suffered its 103rd loss of the season, a 4-3 defeat to the Rangers, but it was the intensity that really stood out along the way. […]

California lawmakers approve down payment ‘handout’ to illegal immigrant home buyers

The Democrat-controlled California Legislature has passed a controversial bill that would make California the first state in the nation to offer down payment assistance to undocumented immigrant homebuyers. Assembly Bill 1840, approved Wednesday, would allow undocumented immigrants access to the state's taxpayer-funded mortgage program, which offers up to $150,000 in down payment assistance to qualified […]