table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7 style=vertical-align:top;trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif/font/tdtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbr /div style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1 //divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tamp;fd=Ramp;usg=AFQjCNEbM9AK0n38VCpZS8UKYhtUl8lU0wamp;url=http://www.nuwireinvestor.com/articles/developer-funding-in-portugals-housing-market-58681.aspxbDeveloper Funding in bPortugal#39;s/b Housing Market/b/abr /font size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fNuWire Investor/font/b/fontbr /font size=-1Some prospective homebuyers in bPortugal/b who are having trouble securing a bank loan now have the option of getting funding from the bproperty/b developer. bPortuguese property/b agent Infinito Real reports that some borrowers are being given the opportunity b/b/fontbr /font size=-1 class=p/fontbr /font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dVJCCSCNWlnpjdMamp;ned=usnobrb/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table
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table border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=7 style=vertical-align:top;trtd width=80 align=center valign=topfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif/font/tdtd valign=top class=jfont style=font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serifbr /div style=padding-top:0.8em;img alt= height=1 width=1 //divdiv class=lha href=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tamp;fd=Ramp;usg=AFQjCNGb3KdS-XhgY8wXEIdCPlw8ogM3hQamp;url=http://www.canadianbusiness.com/article/69243--spain-approves-bank-reforms-to-clean-up-real-estate-mess-revive-banks-and-sick-economybSpain approves bank reforms to clean up breal estate/b mess, revive banks and b/b/b/abr /font size=-1bfont color=#6f6f6fCanadianBusiness.com/font/b/fontbr /font size=-1Spain#39;s development ministry now estimates there are 687000 unsold new homes on the national market, but other studies put the number as high as 1.6 million in the nation of 47 million. There is no government figure for used bhomes for sale/b, b/b/fontbr /font size=-1 class=p/fontbr /font class=p size=-1a class=p href=http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=daVrs8XH_P1LLhMamp;ned=usnobrband morenbsp;raquo;/b/nobr/a/font/div/font/td/tr/table