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• Foreclosure Activity Increases 4 Percent in April

  Tuesday May 13 | via Realty Trac 

  Foreclosure filings - default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions - were reported on 243,353 properties, a 4 percent increase from the previous month and a nearly 65 percent increase from April ...

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  Related Topix: Vallejo, CA, Vallejo Metro, Foreclosures

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• A Foreclosure Bargain for Their "Forever House"

  Wednesday May 14 | via Realty Trac 

  Karen Krynen saw an opportunity. Nestled at the top of a hill with a long private driveway, the bank-owned property sitting on a huge 40,946 square foot lot was exactly what she was looking for.

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  Related Topix: La Habra Heights, CA, Foreclosures, Home Listing, Home

• Pair get suspended terms in S. Jersey betting ring

  Yesterday | via Gloucester Co. Times 

  TRENTON Two Philadelphia men each received suspended five-year prison terms Friday for running a gambling ring in South Jersey and Philadelphia and for falsifying a mortgage application.

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  Related Topix: Trenton, NJ, Home, Mortgage, Philadelphia, PA Metro, Atlantic County, NJ

• Pair charged in betting ring receive suspended sentence

  Friday | via Press of Atlantic City 

  Two Philadelphia men were sentenced to a suspended five-year prison term Friday after admitting that they lied about their employment when buying a Margate condominium to cover that their real income source was ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Linwood, NJ, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Atlantic County, NJ

• Norman G. Mathis Sr.

  Wednesday Apr 30 | via Asbury Park Press Online 

  Norman G. Mathis Sr., 93, of Ocean City, passed away Friday, April 18 at The Shores at Wesley Manor, Ocean City.

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  Related Topix: Atlantic City, NJ, Home, Mortgage, Absecon, NJ, Ocean City, NJ, New Gretna, NJ

• Subprime loans more common in Atlantic, Cumberland than statewide

  Apr 5, 2008 | via Press of Atlantic City 

  The subprime mortgage crisis hit Atlantic and Cumberland counties more strongly than the rest of the state, according to loan tracking figures that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York started releasing last ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Bank of New York, Banking, Financial Services

• 1990s recession teaches lessons for today

  Mar 2, 2008 | via Press of Atlantic City 

  Each week of this year brings fresh evidence that the economy is at best slowing, and probably shrinking.

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  Related Topix: Gaming, Pinnacle Entertainment, Housing, Atlantic County, NJ, Atlantic City, NJ

• Home-equity lines stay open in southeastern New Jersey

  Yesterday | via Press of Atlantic City 

  As another consequence of the subprime mortgage fallout, some of the country's major lenders are suspending or heavily limiting home-equity lines of credit as a way to protect themselves from deflating home ...

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  Related Topix: Credit Card Debt, Personal Finance, Collingswood, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, New Jersey

• Mt. Arlington Realtor receives top honor

  Wednesday May 14 | via Daily Record 

  Mount Arlington resident Patti DiGeronimo -- an associate with Prudential New Jersey Properties Roxbury -- has earned the Quality Service Certified Platinum award, one of the industry's top recognitions.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Mount Arlington, NJ, New Jersey, Home Buying

• Home sales up in N.J. but prices fall in U.S.

  Wednesday May 14 | via Daily Record 

  WASHINGTON -- Median home prices fell in two-thirds of cities surveyed during the first three months of 2008 while 46 states reported declining sales, a real estate trade group reported Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, New Jersey

• New Jersey real estate defies national trend: Sales rise 4 percent in first quarter of 2008

  Tuesday May 13 | via Home News Tribune 

  Sales volume of existing New Jersey single family homes, condominiums and co-ops in the first quarter of 2008 increased 4 percent from the same period last year, indicating New Jersey continues to defy national ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Atlantic City, NJ, New Jersey, Real Estate

• Moriarty/Love Introduce Bill to Criminalize Residential Mortgage

  Friday May 9 | via PoliticsNJ 

  Assemblyman Paul Moriarty and Assemblywoman Sandra Love have introduced legislation to address the many incidents of fraud that helped fuel the recent national mortgage meltdown.

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  Related Topix: New Jersey, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Donald Payne, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat

• St. Louis Real Estate-Market Watch May 17th, 2008

  3 min ago | via St. Louis Real Estate Voice 

  St. Louis Real Estate Market Watch by Art Wagner @ Keller Williams Realty Southwest, Sunset Hills, Mo.

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  Related Topix: Sunset Hills, MO, Real Estate, Housing

• Cook County Sheriff

  7 min ago | via Baker County Standard 

  Find Cook foreclosures from a large database of foreclosure listings in the country from ForeclosureFreeSearch.com. www.foreclosurefreesearch.com Inmate Search Unlimited $19 Search for Inmate Record & ...

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  Related Topix: Cook County, IL, Foreclosures

• Chester County

  7 min ago | via Baker County Standard 

  ALMOST NEW 2,000 SQFT three story brick facade, end unit with southern exposure! Very bright and cheery home next to open space on a quiet low traffic street.

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  Related Topix: Chester County, PA, Foreclosures, Medicine, Health, Massage Therapy, Health, Kennett Square, PA

• Nats set for $50 tax cut trump

  1 hr ago | via Manawatu Evening Standard 

  National appears poised to trump Labour with tax cuts worth at least $50 a week to the average worker, as a new poll shows increasing living costs are driving up expectations.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Big Bills on Housing: Residents challenge taxes

  10 min ago | via Detroit Free Press 

  Property assessments prove hard to change BY CECIL ANGEL * FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER * May 18, 2008 Eileen McDonell put her Westland home on the market two weeks ago because the 91-year-old widow wants to move to ...

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  Related Topix: Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro, Detroit Metro, Housing, Farmington Hills, MI, Commerce Township, MI