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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Jun 19, 2008 | 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

• How to sell quickly and get your price

  Jun 15, 2008 | via The Honolulu Advertiser 

  How do you sell a house in 7 days in a market where, for most sellers, 50 to 60 days is the norm? Colonel Christopher Mullin, weapons systems officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, says he did it with the help of a ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Marketing, Kaneohe, HI, Real Estate, Aiea, HI

• Wages lag behind rental rates

  Apr 7, 2008 | via Inman 

  Report: minimum-wage increase not enough to close gaps By Glenn Roberts Jr. , Monday, April 7, 2008.

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

• Prudential opens new Aiea office

  Feb 20, 2008 | via The Honolulu Advertiser 

  PEARLRIDGE - Prudential Locations, Hawaii's largest locally owned and operated real estate firm, held the grand opening of its new Pearlridge office last week.

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  Related Topix: Aiea, HI, Hoolehua, HI, Puunene, HI, Real Estate

• Appraisal businesses mark year at Harbor

  Jan 16, 2008 | via The Honolulu Advertiser 

  AIEA - By now, Oahu property owners have received their real property assessments, and for some the figures might be unexpected.

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  Related Topix: Aiea, HI, Kaumakani, HI, Housing

Regional Headlines

• Hawaii developers council discuss state of Hawaii real estate

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via KHNL-TV Honolulu 

  The current state of the economy and cooling real estate market leave people who live here in the islands wondering about the market's future direction.

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  Related Topix: Honolulu Metro, Honolulu, HI, Real Estate, Hawaii

• Mortgage woes blamed for this years' filings

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via Honolulu Star-Bulletin 

  Bankruptcies are on the rise in Hawaii, due mostly to a higher percentage of filings related to real estate problems.

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  Related Topix: Honolulu Metro, Honolulu, HI, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Hawaii

• UPI NewsTrack Business

  Saturday Jun 28 | via Daily India 

  Hawaii requires solar water heaters HONOLULU, June 28 -- Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle says the state has moved closer to energy independence by requiring solar water heaters in all new home construction.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Hawaii Government, Hawaii, Mortgage

• Hawaii requires new homes to have solar water heaters, trying to cut fossil fuel imports

  Friday Jun 27 | via PR-inside.com 

  Hawaii, which relies heavily on imported fossil fuels, has become the first U.S. state to require solar water heaters in new homes, pleasing environmentalists but frustrating residents upset with the island ...

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  Related Topix: Hawaii, Hawaii Government, Housing

• Governor Lingle releases funds to assist Habitat for Humanity

  Jun 23, 2008 | via KHNL-TV Honolulu 

  Fifteen island families will be getting some much needed help on the home front.

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  Related Topix: Hawaii, Hawaii Government, Mortgage, Home

National Headlines

• Existing Home Sales Drop Again

  14 min ago | via On Wall Street 

  June proved to be a pretty hot month, but not in the housing market. The latest figure from the National Association of Realtors shows that existing home sales in June fell, as did the median price of a home.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Real Estate, Housing

• Stock market outlook mixed

  14 min ago | via The Toronto Star 

  Overseas stock markets were gloomy but Wall Street index futures pointed to a modest recovery Friday from the previous session's sharp losses.

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  Related Topix: Housing, New Brunswick, Canada, Canada, Woodstock Area, NB, Juniper, NB, York (Toronto, ON), Ontario, Toronto, ON

• John Edwards in town

  14 min ago | via Off the Kuff 

  Former Senator and Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards was in town this week to promote his anti-poverty agenda.

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  Related Topix: North Carolina, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, John Edwards, 2008 Presidential Election

• U.S. 2Q foreclosure filings more than double 8:28 Am CT

  15 min ago | via Denton Record-Chronicle 

  The number of households facing the foreclosure process more than doubled in the second quarter compared to a year ago, according to data released Friday.

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  Related Topix: Irvine, CA, Housing, Foreclosures, Stockton, CA, Stockton Metro

• Federal Bill Will Provide Incentive To 2nd Lienholders To Allow Refinance

  15 min ago | via The Real Estate Bloggers 

  While I am still not thrilled with the 300 billion dollar housing bill working it's way through Congress, they did insert some logic into the process.

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