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		<title>US Mortgage Rates Rise for Third Straight Week</title>
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					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prashant Gopal]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[drop in home sales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home sales impact on HO insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance United States]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Mortgage rates in the US, already the highest in almost a year, rose for a third week, squeezing affordability as home price growth accelerates. The average for a 30-year, fixed loan climbed to 6.58% from 6.55% a week earlier, Freddie &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Many State Flood Maps Are Not Up to Date. Connecticut Is Trying to Fix That.</title>
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					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prashant Gopal]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[East News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connecticut floods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FEMA flood maps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[First Street Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Flood Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flood risk]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Connecticut is taking an unusual step to confront a growing national problem: flood maps that lag reality. The state has launched a public climate-risk mapping tool where residents can see the estimated flood exposure of their property — along with &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Homesellers Pull Listings Off Market as Interest Fades</title>
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					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prashant Gopal]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Southeast News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida homeowners insurance market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HO policies in Southeast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homeowners insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[property insurance sales]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Homesellers in the US are yanking listings off the market, as the nation&#8217;s real estate sector stagnates. Nearly 85,000 sellers removed their properties in September, the highest number for that month in eight years, according to Redfin. The number of &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wildfire Crisis is Roiling California&#8217;s Insurance Market</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2019/11/27/549756.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prashant Gopal]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[West News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Wildfires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[damage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[power outages]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Lauris Bye, a homebuilding industry veteran who moved to Southern California&#8217;s wildfire-prone hills decades ago, felt confident about the newly built house he was buying about 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles. It had safety features tucked into the &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Housing Crunch in California&#8217;s Pushing Developers Deeper into Wildfire Zones</title>
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					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prashant Gopal]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[West News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California Wildfires]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Danger]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[The Santa Ana winds were blowing as Greg Medeiros ducked behind his Chevy Tahoe on a remote hillside 25 miles from the edge of Los Angeles&#8217;s sprawl. He gestured to the valley below, describing his vision of Centennial, the city &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Homes Are Being Built, Raised to Withstand Extreme Weather</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2019/05/13/526166.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prashant Gopal]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2019 05:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[National News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hurricane rebuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resilient building standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roy Wright]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[Breezy Point is beautiful in the summertime, a quaint neighborhood sitting on a slim peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic just south of New York City. In a storm, though, that dreamy setting can become a nightmare. Breezy Point &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Boston Marathon Attacks Convinced Smaller, Midsized Firms to Buy Terror Insurance</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2014/04/17/326686.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prashant Gopal]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 12:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[National News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston Marathon insurance]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[For landlord Peter Zagorianakos, terrorism insurance wasn&#8217;t a necessity until the bombs went off last April at the Boston Marathon and revealed a frightening pattern. Two buildings he owns stand within a half-mile (0.8 kilometer) of the race&#8217;s finish line &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>CoreLogic to Buy Marshall &#038; Swift/Boeckh, DataQuick for $661 Million</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2013/07/01/297209.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[Prashant Gopal]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2013 12:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[National News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Moves & Mergers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[claims analytics services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CoreLogic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DataQuick Information Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marshall & Swift/Boeckh]]></category>
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							<description><![CDATA[CoreLogic Inc. agreed to buy three real estate data companies from TPG Capital&#8217;s Decision Insight Information Group for $661 million to expand its coverage of the property and casualty insurance industries. CoreLogic will acquire Marshall &#38; Swift/Boeckh, DataQuick Information Systems &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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