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Wal-Mart threw the opening salvo: $4 prescriptions for more than 300 drugs, all of them generic substitutes.

Yesterday, Mark Murray, president of Meijer, announced that anyone could take a prescription for more than 70 generic antibiotics to their Meijer pharmacy, and the prescription would be free.

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Real Estate Minute with Ilyce Glink How To Compare Incentives From Builders Original Air Date: October 10, 2006

South Florida's real estate market has been unstable for economic and emotional reasons. The traditional forces of supply and demand, along with super-low mortgage rates and an influx of real estate investors have helped the real estate market turn on a dime. In addition, a growing number of wealthy…

Real Estate Minute with Ilyce Glink Median Prices are Falling, But That Doesn’t Mean Houses Aren’t Selling Original Air Date: October 4, 2006

Last week, I got an email from a home buyer who had been told by a builder's representative that because she was unagented when she first saw the property, the builder would refuse to pay an agent's fee if she later returned with an agent in tow.

You can read the article here…

This is from a Realtor in Washington State:

I listened to your piece on NPR this morning. We in WA state would appreciate experts like yourself to stop creating this self-fulfilling prophecy regarding the real estate market.

The fact is there are a few areas where the market is not as affected by the…

Real Estate Minute with Ilyce Glink Can’t Sell Your Home? Your Builder May Help You Original Air Date: September 22, 2006

I was interviewed on NPR this morning www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6123037 about what to do if you have an interest-only loan and want to sell in a deteriorating real estate market.

I got this response from one NPR listener:

I listened to your interview on NPR this morning. And I do…

Substituting for Clark Howard on September 4, Ilyce Glink offers her WSB listeners useful real estate advice, personal finance advice, and tips on making life just a little bit easier.

Real Estate Minute with Ilyce Glink Home Sales are Down, and then they go up Original Air Date: September 1, 2006

Selling your home? Expect it to take a while in this market. Buying a home? There are all kinds of new incentives out there to bring you to new properties on the market.

Real Estate Minute with Ilyce Glink Attract Buyers Any Way You Can Original Air Date: August 24, 2006

The National Association of Realtors announced this morning that existing home sales slowed 4.1 percent. There are now enough homes for sale on the market that if there weren't one more home put up for sale it would take 7.3 months to clear out the industry. That's the worst record since 1993 -- 13…

In a special version of the Ilyce Glink Show, Ilyce talks with radio personality and book author Tom Kelly, about his new book "Real Estate for Boomers and Beyond." Then, she and Monty Rose, a reverse mortgage expert, talk about the nuts and bolts of choosing and paying for a reverse mortgage.

Real Estate Minute with Ilyce Glink Want to sell? Give away a car Original Air Date: August 3, 2006

Real Estate Minute with Ilyce Glink Virtual Earth and counting Original Air Date: July 31, 2006

In this show, Ilyce talks about her visit to San Francisco and the real estate/technology conference she attended there. One caller wanted to know if Ilyce thought she should start a company that catered to aging baby boomers. Listen to this week's show to find out the answer to that question and…

In her July 23 show, Ilyce discusses the real estate market. More than half of home buyers in Atlanta, southern California, Salt Lake City, Naples, New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C. are using negative amortization loans to purchase or refinance their existing loans. Neg-Am loans, as they're…

Changes in marketing real estate have changed the agent/client relationship. The Internet has made real estate a much more transparent business. You can see what other agents are offering, can view listings that are for sale, learn all about a prospective neighborhood, and look up your own crime…

Substituting for Clark Howard on July 18, Ilyce Glink offers her WSB listeners useful real estate advice, personal finance advice, and tips on making life just a little bit easier.

When you're selling your home it's important to price the property in a way that will help it sell. If you price the property higher than comparable ones in the neighborhood, it's going to be harder to sell the property. What can you look for when you're a buyer? Learn clues to discover when a home…

In the current real estate market, a home may not sell for months. One home seller managed to sell her home at the first open house. She gives you tips on getting your house in "blue ribbon" condition and selling it fast.

As the spring blossoms are pushing up, so are new scams emerging. There's a new scam that's operating in some parts of the country involving teeth whiteners. But instead of getting their teeth whitened, folks are getting their bank accounts cleaned out. I'll have more on this scam and a few others…

The Federal Reserve Bank raised the short-term Fed Funds rate for the 16th time in a row. It now stands at 5 percent.

Anyone on a fixed income is probably pretty happy. It's easy to find a money market account paying above 4 percent, and there are other safe investments earning more than that.

But if…

Unfortunately for home sellers nationwide, the red hot seller's market of the last few years has cooled -- dramatically in some places. The best thing you can do is be realistic about your local market. Here are some things to keep in mind in a down seller's market.