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• Long live full-service commissions
  Perspective: How technology can work to secure your value

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• Study sets benchmarks for customer service
  Keller Williams, Prudential top J.D. Power survey

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• Frontdoor signs deal with Relocation.com
  Real estate technology brief

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• Social media can do wonders for RE biz
  Inman blog scan

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• Theft of escrow funds nets 12 years in prison
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• Real estate marketing and an orange monkey
  Factory Tour: HomeGain

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• Mortgage applications up slightly
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• Quantity, quality vary at real estate search sites
  Study: Some sites serve up stale, inaccurate property info

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• Rules, creepers and one-way streets
  Letters From the Home Front

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Real Estate News From CNN

• 2M borrowers avoid foreclosure
  Hope Now has helped more than 2 million at-risk borrowers stay in their homes during the past 13 months, according to numbers released by the coalition on Wednesday.

  

  
• Unlocking your home equity
  The housing rescue package that Congress scrambled to pass in July was aimed primarily at stemming foreclosures and shoring up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. But it also contains provisions that make reverse mortgages a better deal for older homeowners who want to turn their equity into cash.

  

  
• Housing fix backfires
  Back in February, Congress passed into law a quick fix for the housing market. Unfortunately, it hasn't done much good.

  

  
• Home prices plummet in a new record
  National U.S. home prices fell a record 15.4% in the second quarter compared with last year, according to a report out Tuesday.

  

  
• Mortgage volume rises
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• Latest home prices - first quarter
  Single-family home prices dropped 7.7% in the first quarter in the largest year-over-year decline since the National Association of Realtors began reporting prices in 1982.

  

  
• Where home prices are headed next
  The housing implosion is nowhere near over. In 75 of the 100 top U.S. cities, prices are expected to fall in the next 12 months according to Fiserv Lending Solutions.

  

  
• Mortgage fraud still soaring
  With the housing market in turmoil and lending standards tougher than ever, you'd think that the kind of unscrupulous activity that helped plunge the industry into crisis would be a thing of the past.

  

  
• New home sales rise, but grim news lurks
  The housing sector offered another mixed bag of news Tuesday, as new home sales rose slightly in July only after June sales were revised downward, according to a key government report.