| Week of January 8, 2009 (Miami Today) |
| CONTRACTS COMING: Though Miami-Dade has yet to set a date for commissioners to consider Marlins ballpark contracts, officials expect a vote this month on final construction, non-relocation, assurance and management agreements. |
| 01/07/2009 |
| Business agenda (Miami Herald) |
| MONDAY IRS Certified Tax Preparation Classes: Learn how to prepare income taxes using a computer for the annual tax preparation program; 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Coral Gables Branch Library, 3443 Segovia St., Coral Gables; free. 305-975-0954. |
| 01/05/2009 |
| Home Buyers Finding Bargains In South Florida (CBS4 Miami) |
| In South Florida's depressed housing market some home buyers are finding bargains, but not in the townhouse or condo markets. According to the real estate website CondoVultures.com prices for single family homes in Miami Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties have fallen on average 39 percent in 2008; condos and townhouse prices have fallen 37 percent on average. |
| 12/23/2008 |
| Riding the housing bust (Fortune via Yahoo! Finance) |
| If you want to mark the moment when real estate morphed from every American's dream investment into every American's nightmare, try the third quarter of 2007. That's when the foreclosure rate, which had been slowly creeping upward for three decades and was flat all spring, suddenly leaped 32%, from .59% to .78% of all mortgages. |
| 12/23/2008 |
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