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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

Regional Headlines

• Area home sales down 25% from a year ago

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via The Indianapolis Star 

  May home sales in Central Indiana sank nearly 25 percent from a year ago -- the worst of three straight months of double-digit declines.

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  Related Topix: Montgomery County, IN, Home, Home Selling, Home Listing, Foreclosures, Central, IN, Indiana

• Indy home sales drop 20% in past year

  Monday Jun 30 | via IndyStar.com 

  Home sales in Central Indiana dropped 20 percent with double-digit declines even in Hamilton and Hendricks counties, according to a new statistical snapshot out today.

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  Related Topix: Central, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Indiana, Housing

• Beyond property taxes: New laws as of Tuesday

  Monday Jun 30 | via Rushville Republican 

  Beyond historic property tax reforms, new Indiana laws going into effect on July 1 will help improve consumer protections, education, environment, healthcare and public safety for Hoosiers, State Sen.

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  Related Topix: Milroy, IN, Indiana, Home, Mortgage

• Lawmakers should open door to all finances

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Journal Gazette 

  We've lived this long without knowing who holds the Indiana senators' mortgages.

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  Related Topix: Indiana, US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Mortgage Fraud Scam Sucks In 100 Virginian's

  Sep 28, 2006 | via The Real Estate Bloggers 

  Approximately 100 average folks from Virginia were tricked into letting con artists involve them in a scam to defraud mortgage companies.

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  Related Topix: Indiana, Virginia, Virginia Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

National Headlines

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  7 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

• Disaster capitalism: State of extortion

  8 min ago | via Rabble.ca 

  Once oil passed $140 a barrel, even the most rabidly right-wing media hosts had to prove their populist cred by devoting a portion of every show to bashing Big Oil.

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

• Major homeowner relief bill in Senate

  9 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  The unfinished work is a major relief bill designed to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners heading for foreclosure, pull new buyers back into the real estate arena and permanently raise conventional and ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, US News, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Housing Market Still Struggling; Positive Signs Beginning to Emerge

  9 min ago | via Seeking Alpha 

  With rising energy prices, falling nonfarm payrolls, a plunge in consumer confidence, and a host of other negative indicators, economists have plenty to worry about.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Mortgage, Home

• Ted Forstmann Says We're All Going to Hell

  10 min ago | via Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed 

  Ted Forstmann says we're all going to hell. That's the message I got from a cheerfully apocalyptic interview with financier Forstmann that appears in Monday's WSJ.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance