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	Wisdom of the professional crowd The week's most popular news: Real Estate See the Latest Headlines » Powered by + Real Estate Freddie Mac Warns of Short Sale Fraud - dsnews.com Short sales are quickly gaining ground with homeowners, lenders, and investors alike, and industry data released this week shows that these pre-foreclosure transactions are being pushed through at a faster pace. Freddie Mac... 8 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share REO, preforeclosure properties selling at a larger discount - inman.com The share of bank-owned homes and homes in some stage of foreclosure dropped 5 percent from the first quarter to the second quarter, falling from 36 percent to 31 percent... 47 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Slowdown Impacts Commercial Real Estate Markets, Modest Improvement Seen - realtor.org Commercial real estate vacancy rates are flat and projections for growth have been moderated because economic growth and job creation have been weaker than expected... 16 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Proposal to bulk sell REO could hurt home prices: Radar Logic - housingwire.com At least one housing analyst is pushing back against a government proposal to dispose of the government's real-estate owned properties through bulk sales to investors. Quinn Eddins, director of research at data firm Radar... 18 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share Pre-Foreclosure Short Sales Jump 19% in Second Quarter - dsnews.com Short sales shot up 19 percent between the first and second quarters, with 102,407 transactions completed during the April-to-June period, according to RealtyTrac. Over the same timeframe, a total of 162,680 bank-owned REO... 51 shares  •  Read full story  •  Share See the Latest Headlines » Better. Faster. The New LinkedIn Mobile App for iPhone and Android. Don't want to receive email notifications? Adjust your message settings LinkedIn values your privacy. At no time has LinkedIn made your email address available to any other LinkedIn user without your permission. © 2011, LinkedIn Corporation