Bargain hunters buy up houses

Story date: 2007-09-09 03:27:00
Added on: 2007-09-09 03:58:53

Baltimore Sun - City home sales have dropped considerably since the market peak, when about 70 percent of ... deal he struck this summer and expects to go to settlement on this month, he said, the lender agreed to waive $28,000 of the balance on a $65,000 mortgage.


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