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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

• Fair housing advocates urge stop to foreclosures

  May 1, 2008 | via Grand Rapids Press 

  Discrimination is a hidden factor in the nation's mortgage crisis, creating a cost for everyone, according to fair housing advocates Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Essex couple find ID mixup a frustrating, lonely ordeal

  Mar 30, 2008 | via BurlingtonFreePress.com 

  ESSEX -- David and Jennifer Fountain thought they lucked out in early 2001, when their annual mortgage interest statement was returned promptly after it was sent in error to a Michigan man, also named David ...

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  Related Topix: Wyoming, MI, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Byron Center, MI

• Foreclosures dominate recent Grand Rapids home sales

  Mar 26, 2008 | via WZZM 

  A leading Grand Rapids realtor Wednesday said foreclosures are having a huge impact on the local housing market. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Real Estate, Housing, Foreclosures, Grand Rapids, MI, Grand Rapids Metro, Kent County, MI

• Home sales up as prices tumble

  Mar 25, 2008 | via WOOD-TV Grand Rapids 

  Prices have plummeted in major United States cities by an average of 11.5 percent. 11 comments

  Related Topix: Housing, Kent County, MI, Grand Rapids Metro, Grand Rapids, MI, Foreclosures

• Grand Rapids housing market begins to stir

  Mar 23, 2008 | via Latest News - The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com 

  Doreen and Mark Bolhuis have painted their foyer and purchased a new buffet to highlight the space of the room to help sell their East Grand Rapids house.

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  Related Topix: Wisdom Teeth, Health, East Grand Rapids, MI, Housing

Regional Headlines

• US housing shows signs of recovery

  7 hrs ago | via Telegraph.co.uk 

  Housing is back in demand in the US - especially when homes can cost only 10,000, writes James Quinn Other than being home to cereal giant Kellogg's, the town of Battle Creek is little known outside the ...

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  Related Topix: Michigan, Weather, Housing

• Michigan Especially Hard Hit by Foreclosures

  Thursday Jul 3 | via The Epoch Times 

  According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, nearly 2 million loans were in foreclosure nationwide during the first quarter of 2008.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Michigan, Foreclosures

• Jobless Michiganders tell of fight for survival

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Detroit Free Press 

  A typical day for Jim Stoner might go something like this: Wake up early and head to a local library to search for jobs online.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Mount Clemens, MI, Michigan, Roseville, MI

• Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevadan at Work column

  Monday Jun 30 | via Hotel Online 

  Jun. 30--TRUMP EXEC USES PERSONALIZED CARE TO BUILD CUSTOMER BASE: Steve Shalit decided to go into the hotel business after a ski trip to Vail, Colo.

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  Related Topix: Michigan, Colorado, Colorado Government, Housing

• Profile: Steve Shalit - Vice President and Managing Director, Trump...

  Monday Jun 30 | via Hotel Online 

  June 30, 2008 - TRUMP EXEC USES PERSONALIZED CARE TO BUILD CUSTOMER BASE: Steve Shalit decided to go into the hotel business after a ski trip to Vail, Colo.

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  Related Topix: Michigan, Colorado, Colorado Government, Housing

National Headlines

• Sister-Owned Welch Builders Thrives Despite Tough Market

  3 min ago | via The Daily News 

  IN THE BLOOD: Dawn Kinard, who co-founded Welch Builders LLC with her sister, Danya Welch, stands beneath a portrait of her father, Jackie Welch, owner of Welch Realty.

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  Related Topix: Germantown, TN, Real Estate, Shelby County, TN, Collierville, TN, Opinion

• Pawning Jewels Or TV's For Gas $$$

  3 min ago | via WBAL-AM Baltimore 

  This Liberty Loan and Jewelry employee holds up a ring and a necklace recently sold at the shop.

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  Related Topix: Baltimore Metro, Gwynn-Oak, MD, Mortgage, Home

• American dream goes global

  8 min ago | via Boston.com 

  She was raised in a little wooden house with a thatched roof in the Dominican Republic, a nation she left behind 17 years ago to clean offices in Boston's skyscrapers and dorm rooms at Harvard University.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, World News, Dominican Republic, Central America, Boston, MA

• Beware of reverse mortage scams

  9 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

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  13 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