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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

• Bill will protect vets from foreclosure

  May 30, 2008 | via Tuscola County Advertiser 

  Because Michigan ranks as one of the states with the highest number of foreclosures, some homeowner protection measures are being taken, especially for those serving in the military.

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  Related Topix: Life, Veteran Affairs, Tuscola County, MI, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Fire destroys Tuscola County, Mich., home where family of nine lived

  May 30, 2008 | via Saginaw News 

  A family of nine is seeking a place to live following an early Friday fire that claimed their home and all their possessions.

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  Related Topix: Tuscola County, MI, Frankenmuth, MI, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Proposal to register mortgage brokers would protect homeowners, Rep. Brown says

  Feb 14, 2008 | via Bay City Times - MLive.com 

  Posted by The Bay City Times February 14, 2008 10:30AM A bipartisan state plan would bolster consumer safeguards in the face of the country's subprime mortgage crisis by increasing protections for homebuyers, ...

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

Regional Headlines

• Wall St. futures higher, durable goods data eyed

  4 hrs ago | via MSN Money 

  Futures for the Nasdaq were up 0.4 percent at 4:17 a.m. EDT on Friday while the the Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P were both up 0.1 percent.

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  Related Topix: Michigan, Black and Decker, Appliances, Household Products, Housing, Legg Mason, Financial Services, Investment Services, Coventry Health Care

• Existing home sales fall 2.6% in June

  14 hrs ago | via Detroit Free Press 

  Home sales continued to decline nationwide in June and inventories rose, the National Association of Realtors reported this morning.

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

• West Michigan home sellers try different tactics to lure buyers

  Yesterday | via Ann Arbor News 

  Redstone Group Sales Consultant Jennifer Krzykwa, center, talks with Ellen and Richard Erdmann, of Grandville, on Wednesday at a wine and art open house at Aberdeen Ridge Condominiums.

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  Related Topix: Grandville, MI, Home Building, Home, Ada, MI, Housing, Michigan, Ottawa County, MI

• Suite Talk July 24, 2008

  Yesterday | via Washington Examiner 

  Jonathan L. Kempner, president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, is stepping down at the end of the year.

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  Related Topix: Michigan, Mortgage, Personal Finance, George Washington University

• Business news briefs

  Yesterday | via Clinton County News 

  Independent Bank Corp. swung to a profit during the second quarter. The bank, which has a regional office in East Lansing, reported Wednesday it earned $3.35 million, or 15 cents per share, for the three-month ...

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Independent Bank, Home, Mortgage, Michigan

National Headlines

• San Diego attorney goes to court to stop foreclosures

  5 min ago | via KTAR / Local / Stories 

  San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre wants to make his city a sanctuary city -- for homeowners in trouble.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• The housing bailout isn't just for troubled homeowners.

  5 min ago | via AARP The Magazine 

  RON LIEBER If you are ignoring the housing bailout bill because you think it benefits only troubled homeowners, you may miss out on a windfall.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Market Watch

  6 min ago | via Honolulu Star-Bulletin 

  NEW YORK Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower yesterday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home, Housing, Home Selling, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Markets

• Foreclosure Filings More Than Double

  7 min ago | via WPTZ.com - Money 

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

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• Stocks fall hard

  1 hr ago | via Seacoast Online 

  Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market's ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Home Selling, Home, Housing