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by Sasha Chavkin ProPublica, Feb. 2, 2011, 3 p.m.
Gulf spill paymaster Kenneth Feinberg today released a draft of his long-awaited methodology for deciding payments on final claims for damages from the BP oil spill 2013 and has endorsed an optimistic prediction of how quickly the region2019s economy will recover that is likely to spark controversy among claimants. [more]
Laurie Johnson, KUHF News
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September marks the third month in a row that Houston’s home sales are down. Margie Dorrance chairs HAR, the Houston Association of Realtors. HAR releases monthly numbers, tracking the housing market. Dorrance says September sales this year are down 18 percent from the same month last year.
“Our pricing is holding up unbelievably well. Single-family homes were up five percent, which is a really good thing. But the volume, meaning the number of sales, was down. What that’s telling us, quite honestly, is that some of the upper end was stronger. That is telling us there haven’t been that many people buying that many houses.”
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