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Sunday, September 09, 2007

Paris Hilton has a new address in Hollywood Hills

First it was sister Nikki. Then it was Paris who bought a home after getting out of jail. Now the Simple Life superstar and Vegas highlighter bought a new home in the Hills. She may not have liked her home too much. She listed it for $ 4.2 million and purchased a new home in more private area. "After she returned to her home in the busy Sunset Strip area of the Hollywood Hills, she listed it for $4.25 million and purchased a home on a street less traveled for $5.9 million. The asking price was $6.25 million. Hilton bought in the Beverly Hills Post Office area and, as she desired, in a gated community."

Hilton's new home was built in 1991 and has five bedrooms and six bathrooms plus separate guest quarters and an office in 7,400 square feet.


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Sunday, August 05, 2007

Homebuilders Offer Mortgage only to Push It Down The Throats of Unsuspecting Buyers who Can Not Afford It

The reckoning time has arrived. Homebuilders have created a monster that wants to swallow their business. It has also created a major headache for many ordinary folks.

Many observers are now saying that it was written the boom would come to an end. It was just a matter of time. In addition to banks and conventional lenders, homebuilders entered the prosperous field of mortgage to make money. The result are half-completed, half-empty houses and subdivisions all over California and the Central Valley.

In addition to spitting out subdivisions, many of which now stand half-empty, builders jumped into the mortgage business to a degree they never had. Wall Street provided the same encouragement it offered other lenders. Even as the housing supply began to exceed demand last year, builders kept sales brisk by pushing adjustable-rate, interest-only, and other risky loans. In some cases they attracted clientele who couldn't afford conventional mortgages. In others, builders allegedly violated federal lending standards to get customers to sign on the dotted line. KB Home (KBH ) paid a record $3.2 million settlement in July, 2005, to resolve allegations by the Housing & Urban Development Dept. that the builder's mortgage unit overstated borrowers' income, among other practices, to obtain loan approvals. KB, which denied wrongdoing, sold its loan business before settling.

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California, Central Valley's Hot Home Bargains