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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

• As real estate declines, agents flee

  Wednesday Jun 18 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  The party's over, and thousands of Georgia's real estate sales agents are going home.

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  Related Topix: Sales, Home Listing, Home, Cherokee County, GA, Real Estate

• Tag Realty to Sell New Homes in Cherokee County

  Tuesday Jun 17 | via Atlanta Real Estate Forum.com 

  If you are looking for a new luxury home in Cherokee County, then you're in luck because the expertise and experience of Abbi Schaefer and her team of real estate agents from Tag Realty will be assisting home ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Cherokee County, GA, Home Listing, Home, Housing

• Ajc 2008 Home Sales Report: Decline in sales, resales

  Wednesday Jun 11 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  In east Cobb, Page Morgan of Re/Max Greater Atlanta said houses are moving, if slowly.

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  Related Topix: Cherokee County, GA, Cobb County, GA, Atlanta Metro, Housing

• Bookmark 'Register Now for ULI's The Future of Brookhaven' to del.icio.us

  May 10, 2008 | via Atlanta Real Estate Forum.com 

  Lenore Place has finally opened in eastern Cherokee County, and to celebrate the new homes being ready for sale and public viewing, Southern Star is offering to pay the first six months of mortgage interest on ...

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  Related Topix: Social Software, Cherokee County, GA, Mortgage, Home, Woodstock, GA

• Foreclosure auctions a tough place to get a bargain

  May 7, 2008 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Lisa and Don Price hoped to buy their dream home near Lake Allatoona on Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Atlanta Metro, Gwinnett County, GA, Cherokee County, GA, Woodstock, GA, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• New Prudential Realty Office Open in Roswell

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via Atlanta Real Estate Forum.com 

  Prudential Georgia Realty, which is consistently named one of the 10 most productive affiliates in the 2,100-office Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Roswell, GA, Georgia, Cobb County, GA, Atlanta, GA

• Real estate market threatening Georgia banks

  Saturday Jun 28 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Georgia's banks have built up the nation's heaviest concentration of loans to now-struggling home builders and real estate developers.

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  Related Topix: Georgia, Real Estate

• Fighting Foreclosure Scams

  Friday Jun 27 | via WSB-AM Atlanta 

  With foreclosures in Georgia hitting record highs, state lawmakers want to go after those companies who claim they can rescue homeowners from foreclosure but in reality want to scam them.

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  Related Topix: Georgia, Foreclosures

• Southwest Georgia Financial Corporation Declares Quarterly Cash Dividend

  Thursday Jun 26 | via Business Wire 

  Southwest Georgia Financial Corporation , the parent company of Southwest Georgia Bank, announced that its Board of Directors at its meeting yesterday declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of $0.14 per ...

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Georgia, Moultrie, GA, Colquitt County, GA, Home, Mortgage

• Movers feel housing's pinch

  Monday Jun 23 | via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Georgia Pack and Load's Felix Fowler helps a couple load. The company lost $50,000 in three months due to a dip in business.

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  Related Topix: Lilburn, GA, Hartsfield, GA, Georgia, Housing

National Headlines

• Beware of reverse mortage scams

  6 min ago | via Jacksonville Daily News 

  Columnist's Note: This letter has been edited for length. Dear Troubleshooter: I read your column all the time and find it most informative.

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  Related Topix: Family, Elderly, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Condo Volume for June down 52% from the high

  2 hrs ago | via Ardell's Seattle Real Estate Blog 

  The number of King County condo sales in June of this year is 52% lower than the highs of 2005 and 2006 and a little more than 50% lower than June of last year.

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  Related Topix: Housing

• Acacia revamps and expands mortgage business

  3 hrs ago | via Bizjournals 

  While many lenders are ‘running away’ from residential mortgages, Acacia Federal CEO James Barber plans to almost quadruple the amount of home loans his bank originates each month.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• No Velvet Rope

  Thursday Jul 3 | via SmartMoney 

  THESE DAYS CONSUMERS are dealing with skyrocketing prices for everything from a gallon of gas to a gallon of milk.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Retirement

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  9 min ago | via The Business Journal of Phoenix 

  High foreclosure rates and the increasing number of individual and small-business bankruptcies are keeping attorney Dan Gukeisen’s services in demand.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures