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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

• Bexar County foreclosure filings slide below 900

  Thursday Jun 12 | via MySanAntonio.com 

  Bexar County foreclosure filings dipped below 900 for the first time in five months, continuing a general trend of declines.

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  Related Topix: Bexar County, TX, Foreclosures, San Antonio Metro, San Antonio, TX

• Nonprofit Group Helping Troubled Homeowners

  May 21, 2008 | via KSAT-TV San Antonio 

  In two weeks, 949 Bexar County homes will go on the auction block because of foreclosures.

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  Related Topix: Social Security, Personal Finance, Bexar County, TX, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage

• S.A.'s existing-home sales decrease, but prices rise

  May 20, 2008 | via MySanAntonio.com 

  In San Antonio, fewer existing homes were sold in April than last year, but the bad news is tempered by increased sales prices and foreclosure rates that have remained flat.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, San Antonio Metro, Housing, Real Estate, Foreclosures, Bexar County, TX

• Appraisals up average of 4.4 percent

  Apr 17, 2008 | via MySA.com 

  Just how average is your house? About 95 percent of homeowners countywide will have received this year's property appraisal notices by today, and existing home values - on average - have increased by about 4.4 ...

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  Related Topix: Bexar County, TX, Home, Mortgage, San Antonio Metro

• Housing market still is cooling

  Apr 17, 2008 | via MySanAntonio.com 

  San Antonio's housing market continues to weaken, with fewer home sales in March and a higher-than-average number of homes set for the May foreclosure auction.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Bexar County, TX, Anton, TX, Real Estate, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• Will AG Abbott Sue Countrywide?

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Capitol Annex 

  Via a new blog, Foreclosure Buzz , by Texas Rural Legal Aid attorney Robert Doggett, the question is posed with regard to lawsuits against mortgage lender Countrywide , " Is Texas Next? " Quoting the Forney ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Blog News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Texas

• Business briefly

  Friday Jul 4 | via Lubbock Avalanche-Journal 

  A hedge fund cheat who tried to fake his own death and spent nearly a month as a fugitive told a judge Thursday that he really did try to commit suicide while on the run, saying he thought it would be better to ...

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

• DFW area home foreclosures take a bigger bite

  Friday Jul 4 | via Star-telegram.com 

  By ANDREA JARES A higher percentage of homes is posted for foreclosure than 10 years ago, despite significant growth in the number of homes built and sold in recent years.The figures released Thursday from ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Texas

• 1 in 59 Metroplex homes posted for foreclosure this year

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Star-telegram.com 

  Andrea Jares A higher percentage of homes is posted for foreclosure than 10 years ago, despite a significant growth in the number of homes built and sold in recent years.The figures released Thursday from ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Housing, Texas

• Texans pull out of B&B fundraising

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Guardian Unlimited 

  TPG decided to use a get-out clause that allowed it to pull out of the financing .

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  Related Topix: Texas, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

National Headlines

• Sister-Owned Welch Builders Thrives Despite Tough Market

  8 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 $$$

  8 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

  12 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

  14 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

  17 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