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Another reason to buy a home in US, from CNBC

Home sales are bouncing along the bottom, home prices still haven't hit bottom, and government proposals to juice the housing market are simply falling flat.

The one bright spot in the hardest hit markets is foreign investment. While international buyers made up just 3 percent of home purchases nationally in September, according to the National Association of Realtors, they made up a far higher share in Miami and Phoenix, where the now-burst housing bubble left the greatest rubble.

Investors are buying up the distressed inventory at a fast clip, but not fast enough.

So why not try to get more?

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HOUSING: San Diego courthouse boots trustee sales

San Diego County court administrators will end the decades-old practice of selling foreclosed houses on the courthouse steps in downtown San Diego on Aug. 31, administrators said Monday.

Trustee sales, in which lenders auction off foreclosed properties, grew in popularity in recent months as investors went looking for cheap houses to fix up and sell or rent. What once attracted a dozen professionals can now bring in 40 or more interested buyers on any given day.

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