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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Misappropriation of Housing Settlement Funds</title>
		<link>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/05/a-misappropriation-of-housing-settlement-funds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 17:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Myles</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Lawsuit</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Modifications</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Housing</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Bankers</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Mortgages</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot off the New York Times presses is an amazing article penned by Shaila Dewan entitled, Needy States Use Housing Aid Cash to Plug Budgets. If this weren&#8217;t true (and sad), it would comical.
Talk about governments running so far in the red these days that they are acting more like crack addicts trying to secure their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Tax on Indemnity Mortgages: Another $36MM</title>
		<link>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/05/new-tax-on-indemnity-mortgages-another-36mm/</link>
		<comments>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/05/new-tax-on-indemnity-mortgages-another-36mm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Myles</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Taxes</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>IDOT</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Mortgages</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The Maryland Senate is expected to give final approval today to a package of tax hikes that will raise more than $300 million a year, with the bulk of it coming from increases of 5% to 15% on incomes of taxpayers making more than $100,000 per year.
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Buried in the legislation is a little noticed provision [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where is the bottom to the residential RE market?</title>
		<link>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/05/where-is-the-bottom-to-the-residential-re-market/</link>
		<comments>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/05/where-is-the-bottom-to-the-residential-re-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 May 2012 10:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Myles</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Foreclosure</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Housing</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Short Sale</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Foreclosures</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Delinquency Rates</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Historical Perspective</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Residential Real Estate</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Market Trending</dc:subject><dc:subject>market values of residential properties</dc:subject><dc:subject>Residential Foreclosures</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[When is the bleeding going to stop? Frankly, it&#8217;s hard to know. One bit of advice is to hold your powder before you pull the trigger on making distressed property investments. Although it&#8217;s true that this &#8220;may&#8221; be the time, sharpen your pencil and measure twice before moving forward. Here&#8217;s some data to support that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tale of 2 Commercial Real Estate Markets: Under and Over $2.5MM</title>
		<link>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/05/the-tale-of-two-commercial-real-estate-markets-under-and-over-25mm/</link>
		<comments>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/05/the-tale-of-two-commercial-real-estate-markets-under-and-over-25mm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 19:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Myles</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Historical Perspective</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Commercial Title Companies</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Commercial Real Estate</dc:subject><dc:subject>commercial real estate financing</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[
So what&#8217;s the state of the commercial lending marketplace? 
Although large projects over $2.5MM have shown signs of picking up some momentum in 2011 &#38; 2012, a major portion of small commercial-property deals in the U.S. have fallen through because of stricter lending standards, according to a National Association of Realtors survey.
While the commercial real [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CRE: Still Stressed, BUT Improving</title>
		<link>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/03/cre-still-stressed-but-improving/</link>
		<comments>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/03/cre-still-stressed-but-improving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Myles</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>CMBS</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>CMBX</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Commercial Real Estate</dc:subject><dc:subject>cre</dc:subject><dc:subject>Distressed Properties</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[        
The amount of commercial real estate backed by troubled loans in the United States continues to fall from a high of $191.5 billion set in March 2010.
So-called distressed real estate, which included properties in default or foreclosure and real estate taken over by lenders, totaled $166.9 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Positive Tea Leaves:Architecture Billing Highest Since &#8216;07</title>
		<link>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/03/positive-tea-leavesarchitecture-billing-highest-since-07/</link>
		<comments>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/03/positive-tea-leavesarchitecture-billing-highest-since-07/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Myles</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Architect Billing Index</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Economy</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Uncategorized</dc:subject><dc:subject>Architecture Index</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[

Led by the commercial sector, the Architecture Billings Index(ABI) &#8212; a true economic indicator &#8212; has now remained in positive territory four months in a row.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) said the February ABI score was 51.0, following a mark of 50.9 in January.
SEE: AIA Billings Index Shows Third Straight Month of Positive Growth (2/22/12)
The new projects inquiry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure Sale Fees: A Potential Quagmire!</title>
		<link>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/03/foreclosure-sale-fees-a-potential-quagmire/</link>
		<comments>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/03/foreclosure-sale-fees-a-potential-quagmire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 18:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Myles</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Foreclosure</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Foreclosures</dc:subject><dc:subject>Maryland Foreclosure Sale Fees</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a very interesting, and potentially scary, Maryland real estate issue, astutely identified by DLA Piper&#8217;s Jack Machen. 
Given the potential exposure of this ruling to most who follow our Maryland Commercial Title Blog, and operate in this arena daily, I thought I&#8217;d post this immediately. 
In Maddox v Cohn, the Maryland Court of Appeals, on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage Backed Securities: A Renewed Investment?</title>
		<link>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/03/mortgage-backed-securities-a-renewed-investment/</link>
		<comments>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/03/mortgage-backed-securities-a-renewed-investment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Myles</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Mortgage Baced Securities</dc:subject><dc:subject>mortgage backed securities</dc:subject>
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A Maryland real estate investment trust that invests in mortgage-backed securities is planning to raise up to $1.8 billion in a stock sale.
American Capital Agency in Bethesda said in a news release that it intends to use the proceeds from the secondary offering to buy up additional securities, as well as for general corporate purposes.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Feds are Leasing &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/02/the-feds-are-leasing/</link>
		<comments>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/02/the-feds-are-leasing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Myles</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac</dc:subject><dc:subject>Feds are leasing foreclosures</dc:subject>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. government has started selling off its stock of homes in foreclosure, as first reported in our article, Sell Government-owned Foreclosures, as Rentals, back on January 9, 2012.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) said Monday that a group of investors purchased the first of 2,500 homes being sold as part of a foreclosure-to-rental program.
The government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commercial Real Estate Looking Up</title>
		<link>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/02/commercial-real-estate-looking-up/</link>
		<comments>http://marylandcommercialtitle.com/blog/2012/02/commercial-real-estate-looking-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Myles</dc:creator>
		
	<dc:subject>Commercial Title Companies</dc:subject>
	<dc:subject>Commercial Real Estate</dc:subject><dc:subject>2012 Commercial Real Estate</dc:subject>
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Highlighting the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS predictions are: The National Association of Realtors&#8216; quarterly forecast shows all commercial sectors are experiencing improved fundamentals, with the multifamily market commanding the largest rent hikes. 
Likewise, a notable gain has been recorded by the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR). The SIOR Index, measuring the impact of 10 variables, spiked [...]]]></description>
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