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		<title>Time to buy a southern US residence?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The resurgence of the loonie and continued degradation of U.S. home prices are spurring more Canadians to invest in property south of the border.  Is the time right for you? 
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		<title>US Housing Recovery Appears Solid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 21:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#39;re continuing to post new US housing&#160;information to help Canadians who are planning to buy vacation homes in the US sun-belt.&#160; The following is a summary of Standard&#38;Poors (S&#38;P) Case Shiller Index ending October, 2009.&#160; For complete and detailed index report results, head to www.standardandpoors.com/indices/sp-case-shiller-home-price-indices/ The Standard &#38; Poor&#39;s/Case-Shiller home price index (covering 20 top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have US Housing Prices Stabilized?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 19:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Canadians considering a purchase of that &#8220;home in the sun&#8221; have much to consider&#160;given the conflicting data coming from various sources.&#160; Buried in all the information coming at us&#160;is something called &#8220;the shadow inventory&#8221; which are homes in the process of foreclosure and not yet counted as available for sale.&#160; Also, we should be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for U.S. Real Estate Ownership</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 19:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent post highlighted an article in the Globe and Mail focused on financing warm weather vacation properties.&#160; This post&#160;is a companio to that article written by Roma Luciw.&#160; Check out the LifePast50&#160;&#34;where to live&#34; post category for more.&#160; And, LifePast50 would sure appreciate responses from Canadians with actual southern buying experience &#8211; let us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canadians Buying Warm Vacation Properties</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Globe and Mail Update Published on Monday, Oct. 05, 2009 5:20PM EDTLast updated on Tuesday, Oct. 06, 2009 10:05AM EDT &#160; Canadians are still heading south of the border to snap up warm-weather vacation homes, but, unlike other foreign buyers, many snowbirds are now skipping the mortgage process entirely and paying cash for their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Vacation Home &#8211; Buy Now?</title>
		<link>http://lifepast50.ca/2009/10/arizona-vacation-home-buy-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We continue to look at Arizona housing prices with a particular focus on Tucson where more houses are selling but selling at lower prices. To answer the question "is now the time to buy?" this post concludes that prices won't go much cheaper while waiting risks incurring higher mortgage rates and possibly increasing house prices.]]></description>
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		<title>Sun Destination Housing Prices Bottoming</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an article by Lynn Adler published by the Globe and Mail Sept 29, 2009 For Canadians contemplating buying that &#8220;place in the sun&#8221; now might be the time. US home prices have started to climb for the third month in a row in July more proof a fragile US housing recover is under way.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. housing crisis continues &#8211; buy now?</title>
		<link>http://lifepast50.ca/2009/03/us-housing-crisis-continues-buy-now/</link>
		<comments>http://lifepast50.ca/2009/03/us-housing-crisis-continues-buy-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:38:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ We keep our readers and particularly those contemplating a purchase of a U.S. &#8220;place in the sun&#8221; up to date by replaying various media articles on the subject of U.S. home prices.  The focus will be on those articles related to prices in U.S. sun belt states.   Here is a recent article. U.S. mortgage woes break records J.W. ELPHINSTONE 11:32 EST Thursday, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is now the time to buy?</title>
		<link>http://lifepast50.ca/2009/03/is-now-the-time-to-buy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Feb 28, 2009  we are given the following update on the US economy, consumer confidence and housing prices. U.S. consumer confidence did a swan dive in February with the confidence index down 12.4 points to a level of 25.  According to the Conference Board, this is a level not seen since the survey began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Sun Belt Real Estate Prices</title>
		<link>http://lifepast50.ca/2009/02/us-sun-belt-real-estate-prices/</link>
		<comments>http://lifepast50.ca/2009/02/us-sun-belt-real-estate-prices/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Summarized from a Globe &#38; Mail article of Feb 20, 2009 by Thane Stenner of GMP Private Client LP.  Although the article refers to prices of  high end properties, the theme of the article should apply to moderately priced properties as well. Last week Mr Stenner met with a client who had just returned from [...]]]></description>
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