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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Thursday Jun 19 | via Realty Trac 

  The euphoria that surrounded six years of escalating home prices, record levels of home sales and rock-bottom interest rates crashed and burned in 2007, forcing many foreclosure investors to ratchet down their ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Housing, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• More people, not enough jobs, housing prices through the roof, Marist economic report says

  Friday Jun 27 | via Mid-Hudson News 

  POUGHKEEPSIE While the population of the Hudson Valley continues to grow, there are not enough jobs in the region to go around.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Poughkeepsie, NY, Columbia County, NY, Greene County, NY

• Evaluating real estate market can be difficult

  May 31, 2008 | via Times Union 

  Is the real estate market in Greene and Columbia counties stronger, weaker or the same as in the rest of the Capital Region? That isn't an easy question to answer.

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  Related Topix: New York, Catskill, NY, Greene County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Banking, Financial Services, Greene County Bancorp, Real Estate

• NYC transplants find Greene County land and home prices appealing

  Aug 13, 2007 | via The Business Review (Albany) 

  DONNA ABBOTT VLAHOS Aaron Flach and his brother expect to spend about $1.5 million to convert a former school in Coxsackie into 12 apartments with tall ceilings, custom kitchens, hardwood floors and a new ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Coxsackie, NY, Greene County, NY, Home Listing, Home, Schenectady, NY

Regional Headlines

• Bad economy means good business for repo men

  Friday | via Thehour.com 

  BRIDGEPORTAssociated PressThis is what it looks like when a gilded age turns to brass: the boats, motor homes and expensive cars bought during the good times are turned over to the repo men in favor of paying ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, New York Government, New York, Connecticut, Connecticut Government, Foreclosures

• Buffalo area tops for job growth

  Friday | via Buffalo News 

  Where was the New York State metro area with the hottest job growth in June? Would you believe Buffalo Niagara? While the region's job market was more tepid than scorching hot, the area still managed to add ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, New York, State University of New York System, Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Metro, Buffalo (State University of New York System), Allegany County, NY

• Politics is Everyone's Business

  Friday | via Rome Observer 

  The empire strikes back Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is flanked by Deputy Majority Leader Thomas Libous, R-52 Binghamton and Senator Joseph Griffo, R-47. Griffo invited his fellow Republicans to tour the ...

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  Related Topix: State University of New York System, Binghamton (State University of New York System), Home, Mortgage, New York, Oneida County, NY, Madison County, NY

• Your News Dissector Goes To Washington: NACA Helping Home Owners Big Time

  Friday | via News Dissector's Weblog 

  I arrived in our super hot Capital City to attend NACA's anti-foreclosure event at the Capital Hilton.

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  Related Topix: Washington Post, Publishing, World News, Ethiopia, Africa, New York, Foreclosures

• Economic role reversal

  Thursday | via The Telegraph 

  German broker Dirk Mueller at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Washington, July 17: The global slowdown stemming in part from the deepening US financial crisis is hitting the world's richest nations the hardest ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing, New York, York (Pennsylvania State University System)

National Headlines

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  3 min ago | via Quamnet 

  "This is a challenging time for families across our nation," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, Housing, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Property cools in capital with glum economy

  5 min ago | via Viet Nam News 

  Certain sectors of the Ha Noi real estate markets have cooled over the past few months as a result of the global economic slowdown, domestic inflation and limited liquidity on the market driven by high interest ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Ha Tay, Vietnam, World News, Ha Noi, Vietnam, Vietnam

• Real estate newsmakers

  3 hrs ago | via News Press 

  Originally from Long Island, N.Y., Brownyard relocated to Houston, Texas, where she was in the insurance business.

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  Related Topix: Northeastern University, Housing, Cape Coral, FL, Sanibel, FL, Morris (University of Minnesota System)

• What to do in a time of foreclosures

  3 hrs ago | via Lansing State Journal 

  'If there's ever a time to buy, it's certainly now because the prices are so low,' said David Whitcomb, broker and owner of Whitcomb Realty in Lansing.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Lansing, MI, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ingham County, MI

• Foreclosures affect communities

  3 hrs ago | via Lansing State Journal 

  The foreclosure crisis affects more than just individual homeowners. It has an impact on entire neighborhoods and communities.

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  Related Topix: Lansing, MI, Lansing Metro, Foreclosures