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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Orlando Short Sales

  Sunday Jul 13 | via The Condo Metropolis Blog 

  Short Sales: An acceptable exit strategy? Most of you who bought investment condos in 2005-2006 have told me the same gut-wrenching story: You're desperate to sell and wouldn't even mind taking a small loss if ...

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  Related Topix: Orlando, FL, Orlando Metro, Personal Finance, Mortgage, Foreclosures

• Column: Is coverage of banking troubles `reprehensible'?

  20 hrs ago | via Houston Chronicle 

  You can add John Reich, head of the Office of Thrift Supervision, to the Bad News Brigade.

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  Related Topix: Orlando Metro, Mortgage, Home

• We think: Orlando's budget doesn't reflect struggles of city taxpayers

  Yesterday | via The Orlando Sentinel 

  Save the Date Invitation What: Public's chance to comment on a proposed city budget that increases staff and expenses even while more local residents lose jobs and face mounting food and fuel bills. 35 comments

  Related Topix: Orlando Metro, Orlando, FL, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• 'A golden opportunity' for government-subsidized housing

  Yesterday | via The Orlando Sentinel 

  With hundreds of vacant homes and condos in the Orlando area -- many of them in foreclosure, with banks looking to unload them for less than $100,000 -- some experts say the answer to the region's seemingly ... 22 comments

  Related Topix: Winter Park, FL, Foreclosures, Orlando, FL, Orlando Metro

• Churches should help in foreclosure crisis, housing leader says in Orlando

  Yesterday | via El Sentinel 

  Church groups should take a more active role in helping their members and others keep their homes during the current surge in foreclosures, one of the top regional executives with the U.S. Department of Housing ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Orlando Metro, Orlando, FL, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• Financial regulator asked to step down

  6 hrs ago | via WMNF-FM Tampa 

  On Sunday, the Miami Herald published an investigation titled "Borrowers Betrayed." It revealed that state regulators allowed thousands of ex-convicts to enter the mortgage business.

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  Related Topix: Pinellas County, FL, Tampa, FL, Foreclosures, Florida, Florida Government

• A Long Housing Boom Won't Yield to a Brief Recovery

  15 hrs ago | via The US Market Blog 

  Scott Almeida had a problem. Fresh out of jail and in need of some money, Scott needed to find a job quick.

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  Related Topix: Florida, Home, Mortgage

• Banking Regulator Pressed to Step Down

  20 hrs ago | via The Ledger 

  Published: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 at 7:08 a.m. TALLAHASSEE Florida's top banking regulator is under fire after a newspaper investigation exposed that ...

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  Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Broken system

  Yesterday | via Tallahassee.com 

  For generations, Florida has been known as a land of opportunity, sunshine and swindle.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Florida, Florida Government

• Showdown over mortgage brokers near

  Yesterday | via Bradenton Herald 

  Amid mounting criticism of his leadership, Florida's top mortgage industry regulator promised Monday to find out why his agency allowed thousands of people with criminal histories to sell home loans in the ...

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  Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

National Headlines

• Editorial: The nation gets further in debt

  1 min ago | via Enterprise-Journal 

  Congress and President Bush have little choice but to prop up the mortgage loan business with an infusion of taxpayer money into the housing market.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Opinion

• Minimize the impact of divorce on your credit

  1 min ago | via Southern Illinoisan 

  If you're planning to file for divorce this year or are already splitting your assets with your soon-to-be ex-spouse, your credit is likely to take a hit.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Stocks head for mixed open ahead of housing data

  1 min ago | via The Oregonian 

  Wall Street headed for a mixed open Thursday as investors awaited a report on the troubled housing market and watched oil prices edged higher.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Housing, US Politics, US News

• Lettings boom as home sales growth slows

  2 min ago | via Scotsman.com 

  THE average cost of renting a flat in the Capital has continued to rise as sales growth in the wider property market slows, new research has found.

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  Related Topix: Housing

• Housing rescue bill halfway to the president's desk

  2 min ago | via WHO-TV Des Moines 

  The massive mortgage rescue bill cleared by the House yesterday is expected to win final Senate approval next week.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, George Bush