Seeing the signs of a wrecked housing market

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The statistics are staggering. Nearly 528,000 homes were taken over by lenders in the first half of this year and the country is on track to see the repossession of one million homes by the end of 2010. By comparison, in years past, lenders have historically taken over approximately 100,000 homes every year.

Grosse Pointe, Michigan resident, David Fleig sees signs of the damaged housing market everyday in his neighborhood. Fleig says, “The ‘For Sale’ signs are like weeds.” He and his neighbors joke that all houses are “50 percent off.”

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