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Mortgage rates keep falling to record lows — so is now a good time to refinance?

The coronavirus pandemic has led to a dramatic decline in mortgage rates. But that doesn’t mean now is a good time to refinance for everyone. Last week, Freddie Mac FMCC, -0.94% reported that mortgage rates hit a new record low for the fourth time this year, with the average rate …

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Simple Ways To Improve Your Porch

A porch can have the potential to become a lot more than a place to enjoy the cold breeze on summer nights. It is a place that can become the home for entertaining guests, to have parties, and even small weddings. Your home’s porch can be turned into an extra …

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Dispatches from a Pandemic: As Spain welcomes back tourists, this tiny island finds ‘hearts divided’ with hope and anxiety

On the tiny Balearic island of Formentera, sometimes called Ibiza’s sister island, Raquel Calafat has been working hard to get the hotel that her great-grandfather established in the 1950s ready to greet tourists, who have been eerily absent for months. Calafat speaks of “corazones divididos” — hearts divided — to …

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