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Real Estate Tales
From housing’s front lines, here are eight stories—about fraught-filled foreclosures, diminishing home values, development downturns, souring investments, and unlikely bargains—that track the perils and pluses of today’s residential real-estate market
by Dennis Rodkin
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It’s been a bumpy ride down from the heights of the real-estate market. Falling prices, short sales, foreclosures, troubled condo buildings—the stories circulating today are far different from those told five years ago, when housing values were shooting straight up. On the following pages I have gathered a set of tales from housing’s front lines that track those changes in the local real-estate market. They include personal stories from homeowners, developers, and an investor—and all of them had skin in this game. Some of them got skinned, but others came out on top. Read on to see who made the best of a bad situation.
 Investing in Condos |  Slowed Development |  Finding a Bargain |  Sinking Value |
 Stuck in Mortgage Limbo |  Buying at Foreclosure |  A Quick Sale |  Condos Go Rental |
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