| Home of the Week: Rancho Mirage villa with its own golf course |
The 249-acre Porcupine Creek is designed for swingers.
A golfer's personal paradise can be found at Porcupine Creek, a 249-acre estate in Rancho Mirage that features a Mediterranean-inspired villa, four casitas, four guesthouses and a private 19-hole golf course, with that extra hole available for playoff games.
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| FHA and Fannie Mae getting tougher with reverse mortgage borrowers |
| Here's a sobering message for anyone who has a federally insured reverse mortgage or plans to apply for one: If you don't pay your local property taxes or hazard insurance premiums, you should know that the risk of losing your house to foreclosure is about to increase.
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| California home prices jump 20.9% in May |
Tax incentives spur sales. The median home price rises to $278,000, reflecting less a rise in housing values than a shift in sales toward more expensive coastal markets.
Fueled by tax incentives, California home sales rose in May, helping lift the Golden State's median home price by 20.9% from its year-earlier mark.
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| Oil Spill Delivers Recovery Setback |
| The Gulf of Mexico oil spill is imperiling billions of dollars of commercial real-estate investments with potentially grave repercussions for developers, lenders and investors. |
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| Qataris Continue London Buying Spree |
| Barwa said it will buy Park House development in London's fashionable West End district for $369 million, as Qatari investors continue to snap up prime real estate in the city. |
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| Dallas Condo Project: Exception to the Slump |
| Developers will start construction later this month on a long-planned luxury high-rise condominium in Dallas, an unusual example of new development for a sector that was battered by the housing bust. |
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| Apartment Leases, Rentals Pick Up |
| Some of the nation's largest apartment-building landlords are reporting that rent declines have stopped and some are even boasting modest increases. |
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| St. Joe's Gulf Presence Not a Plus |
| Prominent Florida Panhandle landowner St. Joe has seen its stock pummeled on concern that the oil spill could cut into its tourism business. |
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| 10 stocks to watch |
| Apple, the nation's biggest technology company by market value, appears on an MSN Money list of recommended stocks. Here are StockScouter's best investment ideas. |
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| Bad credit? How to buy a car anyway |
| You won't get the deals reserved for those with stellar credit scores, but there are still ways of snagging some new wheels if you really need them. |
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| A car payment is not a fact of life |
| A simple formula can help you figure out how much you can afford to borrow -- and for how long. If you're lucky, it could be the last time you'll need to finance a vehicle. |
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| Turks and Kurdish rebels clash |
| June 19 - In one of the deadliest clashes in recent months, at lease twenty-two people were killed-- including ten soldiers- in fighting between Turkish troops and Kurdish rebels. Jon Decker reports.
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| Excitement builds at Wimbledon |
| June 19 - Spaniard Rafael Nadal is hoping to follow up his win at Roland Garros with another Grand Slam on the grass courts of Wimbledon. Jon Decker reports.
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| Florida braces for more oil |
| June 19 - Along the Florida panhandle, hundreds of small tar bills now litter the beaches of Destin, a popular fishing and tourist village. Jon Decker reports.
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| U.S. urges Kygyzstan on crisis |
| June 19 - The U.S. envoy for Central Asia urges Kyrgyzstan to create conditions for a safe return of hundreds of thousands of refugees uprooted by last week's outburst of ethnic violence.
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| Fastest growing counties in the U.S. |
| The fastest growing large county in the United States is not in a trendy Sun Belt state. It's in Illinois, a member in good standing of the Rust Belt. |
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| Feds bust 485 mortgage fraudsters |
| The Justice Department on Thursday trumpeted its efforts to crackdown on mortgage fraud, saying it launched an interagency plan to detect costly scams. |
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