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• Beyond the Foreclosure Blame Game

  Wednesday Jun 18 | via Realty Trac 

  Real estate investors are becoming a convenient scapegoat for many looking to assign blame for the recent surge in foreclosures and faltering real estate market.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Local Headlines

• Homebuyers have a new option in Ventura County

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Ventura County Reporter 

  Thousand Oaks business LoanSmart Inc. is trying to get the word out about a strategy for homebuyers to contend in Ventura County's less-than-ideal real estate market: loans offered by the Federal Housing ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Ventura County, CA, Ventura, CA

• 15 arrested in activities at 2 homes left vacant

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Ventura County Star 

  Fifteen people - eight adults and seven juveniles - were arrested Friday night in suspected vandalism and trespassing at two vacant south Oxnard homes police think might be in the foreclosure process, according ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Oxnard, CA, Ventura County, CA

• Police Warning: Foreclosed Homes Hosting Teen Parties

  Friday Jun 27 | via KNBC Los Angeles Channel 4 

  Police in Oxnard said Friday that foreclosed homes are turning into party locales for teenagers.

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  Related Topix: Family, Teenagers, Oxnard, CA, Foreclosures

• BofA to cut 7,500 jobs in merger

  Friday Jun 27 | via Venturacountystar.com 

  By Stephanie Hoops and Jenni Mintz shoops@VenturaCountyStar.com jmintz@VenturaCountyStar.com Friday, June 27, 2008 The ink isn't even dry on the deal, but Bank of America Corp.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Ventura County, CA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Banking, Bank of America, Westlake Village, CA

• Median home price at $487,790 in the county

  May 26, 2008 | via Venturacountystar.com 

  Ventura County's sales of existing, single-family detached homes last month fell 12.7 percent from a year ago and 7.2 percent from April, California Association of Realtors reported today.

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  Related Topix: Ventura County, CA, Housing, Real Estate

Regional Headlines

• Californians feel pinch--and pinch pennies

  15 hrs ago | via McClatchy DC 

  Skyrocketing gas prices have collided with layoffs, foreclosures and food costs to change the way we live in everyday ways.

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  Related Topix: California, Foreclosures

• Good food gives chef satisfaction

  23 hrs ago | via Hattiesburg American 

  Pilgrimages are typically once-in-a-lifetime events. If one is lucky he or she might get to make two or three pilgrimages over the course of their life.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

• Builder incentives: Just marketing, or the real deal?

  20 hrs ago | via KCPQ 

  Most new-home buyers find it hard to resist the lure of builder incentives -- paid closing costs, an allowance for free upgrades at the design center or interest-rate buy-downs. But are they really worth it? ...

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  Related Topix: Marketing, California, Foreclosures, Construction, William Lyon Homes, Home Listing, Home

• Another 'gimmick'

  22 hrs ago | via Fresno Bee 

  Governor's lottery plan gains few defenders. There's not much good news at the moment about the state budget -- it's overdue, as usual; there's no sign of agreement anytime soon; no permanent fix is in sight -- ...

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  Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Nontraditional tenants occupy dark stores at malls

  Saturday | via Journal News 

  Community college classes in the old mall movie theater. A DMV office across from the Starbucks.

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  Related Topix: Housing, California, California Government

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