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• Foreclosure Activity Increases 4 Percent in April

  Tuesday May 13 | via Realty Trac 

  Foreclosure filings - default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions - were reported on 243,353 properties, a 4 percent increase from the previous month and a nearly 65 percent increase from April ...

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  Related Topix: Vallejo, CA, Vallejo Metro, Foreclosures

Featured Article

• Foreclosure Activity Increases 4 Percent in April

  Tuesday May 13 | via Realty Trac 

  Foreclosure filings - default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions - were reported on 243,353 properties, a 4 percent increase from the previous month and a nearly 65 percent increase from April ...

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Vallejo, CA, Vallejo Metro, Foreclosures

• FBI: Bemidji realty scam inflated property values

  Apr 12, 2008 | via KARE-TV Minneapolis 

  An FBI affidavit accuses a real estate agent in Bemidji of participating in a conspiracy to inflate property values in through sham sales, kickbacks, and falsified loan applications.

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  Related Topix: Minneapolis, MN, Foreclosures, Real Estate, Bemidji, MN, Publishing, Media, Cass County, MN

• Cass Board looks ahead to 2008 cha...

  Feb 14, 2008 | via The Pilot-Independent 

  Cass Board looks ahead to 2008 challenges, opportunities Gail DeBoer / Staff writer Last updated: Thursday, February 14th, 2008 08:37:57 AM The year 2008 should be an interesting one for the Cass County Board, ...

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  Related Topix: Backus, MN, Foreclosures, Cass County, MN, Walker, MN

• Mixed news on April housing starts

  Yesterday | via Finance and Commerce 

  A new U.S. Department of Commerce report offers some encouraging signs for the slumping national housing market, even as local builders try to recover from an unseasonably wet and cool spring.

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  Related Topix: Minnesota, Foreclosures

• Dad charged with defrauding soldier son serving in Iraq

  Thursday | via StarTribune 

  After serving his country on active duty for nearly two years, including fighting in Iraq, Minnesota National Guardsman Aeren Nauman returned to Minnesota to find a financial battle waiting.

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  Related Topix: Long Lake, MN, Hennepin County, MN, Wayzata, MN, Life, Veteran Affairs, Minnesota, Home, Mortgage

• Fraud worsened in 2007, FBI says

  Wednesday May 14 | via Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

  The appraisal for these condos, which were involved in a mortgage fraud, said they were recently renovated to include Brazilian hardwood and granite countertops and were worth $275,000, according to the FBI.

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

• Foreclosed homes auctioned off in Bloomington

  Saturday May 10 | via KSAX 

  More than 100 homes were on the auctioning block at an event held at the Bloomington Marriott Saturday.

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  Related Topix: Minnesota, Mortgage, Home

• Home buyers left on hook to repair bad septic system

  Thursday May 8 | via Star Tribune 

  Contact us at whistleblower@startribune.com or visit the new blog, www.startribune.com/whistleblower Blog post: The Whistleblower: Righting wrongs in the community More from North Metro Eric and Toni Kohnke ...

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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Real Estate, Minnesota

• Money

  5 min ago | via KRON 4 

  Can You Pass the Home-Buyer's Fiscal Fitness Test? Tumbling home prices may seem to offer bargains, but they also raise real concerns about the value of real estate.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate

• Elder Law: Latest word from the IRS of interest to most seniors

  4 hrs ago | via News Press 

  Last week, I wrote about giving back early Social Security benefits in exchange for larger benefits at regular retirement age, the two-year period for the surviving spouse to sell their residence for the full ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Healthcare Law, Law, Social Security

• Lee County's subprime holes may deepen

  4 hrs ago | via News Press 

  For every 1,000 homes in Lee County, 62 are financed with the shakiest of loans.

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  Related Topix: St. Lucie, FL, Housing, Lee County, FL

• Attractive dividends become hard to find

  4 hrs ago | via News Press 

  When Wachovia Corp. cut its dividend by 41 percent recently, the bank followed the example of other financial companies that have responded to bad home loans and tight credit markets by lightening the wallets ...

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  Related Topix: Wachovia Corporation, Banking, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage

• ERA Morrison listed in RISMedia report

  10 min ago | via Lowell Sun 

  ERA Morrison recently announced that it has been named to RISMedia's 20th Annual Power Broker Report, which identifies and ranks America's largest residential real estate brokerage companies by transaction ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Mortgage, Home