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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

Local Headlines

• Dollar Homes

  Monday Jul 14 | via City of Akron 

  The home foreclosure crisis may actually end up providing some benefits for some Akron families with the new Dollar Homes Purchasing Program through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development .

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Akron Metro, Akron, OH

• Akron may use program to buy vacant homes for $1

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Akron Beacon Journal 

  A federal program that would allow Akron to purchase vacant homes for a dollar soon could benefit local families.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Akron Metro, Akron, OH, Foreclosures

• 10 Indicted in Ohio Mortgage Fraud Probe

  Saturday Jul 12 | via WOIO 

  Ten people were charged Friday with mortgage fraud based on an investigation of four separate cases in northeast Ohio.

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  Related Topix: Ohio, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Cuyahoga County, OH, Summit County, OH, Akron, OH

• Akron may purchase vacant homes for $1

  Friday Jul 11 | via Akron Beacon Journal 

  A federal program that would allow Akron to purchase vacant homes for a dollar soon could benefit families.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Akron Metro, Akron, OH, Foreclosures

• Service helps homeowners with mortgage concerns

  Friday Jul 11 | via Akron Beacon Journal 

  If you are a homeowner with mortgage payment problems, the nonprofit Consumer Credit Counseling Service has created the Housing Help Center for you.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Cleveland Metro, Akron Metro, Medina, OH, Akron, OH, Canton Metro

Regional Headlines

• Ohio Department of Commerce warns Ohioans to be on guard against advance fee loan advertisements

  Yesterday | via LancasterEagleGazette 

  COLUMBUS - The Ohio Department of Commerce's Division of Financial Institutions is warning Ohioans to be on guard against newspaper advertisements that promote the availability of loans but fail to identify the ...

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Institutions, Financial Services, Ohio, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Job losses rise in June

  Jun 19, 2008 | via Columbus Dispatch 

  You need to look back to 1981 to find two months in which Ohio's jobless rate rose as much as it did in May and June.

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  Related Topix: University of Illinois System, Springfield (University of Illinois System), Ohio, US News, Sherrod Brown, US Senate, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Sherrod Brown, Ohio Government, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Making Ohio's Economy Grow

  Friday | via The Intelligencer 

  Like most other states, Ohio has taken its share of battering as the nation's economy struggles with challenges ranging from high gasoline prices to the "subprime mortgage crisis." Here in the Ohio Valley, ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Ohio, Ohio Government, US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat

• Feeling the Pinch -- Getting through a tough economy

  Friday | via WTOL-TV Toledo 

  Your job and retirement From finding and landing a job to recession-proofing your current job.

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

• Post a comment

  Thursday Jul 17 | via The Plain Dealer 

  After a fairly good week for banks, eyes will turn next week to the financial results of Northeast Ohio's big banks, which have gained national attention for their mortgage-induced pain.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Ohio, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Huntington Bancshares, National City Corporation

National Headlines

• Report paints gloomy picture

  8 min ago | via Shropshire Star 

  Ask yourself this question: What is Ludlow best known for? Your answer will probably include a few of the following: Fantastic restaurants, a beautiful castle, glorious countryside, vibrant festivals and a rich ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  9 min ago | via Alaska Journal of Commerce 

  Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US News, Housing, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Neighborhood is quiet, convenient

  3 hrs ago | via Montgomery Advertiser 

  Not all of the new construction in Prattville is nestled between the McQueen Smith Road area and Interstate 65.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Prattville, AL, Home Listing

• Interactive: Foreclosures in mid-Michigan

  3 hrs ago | via Lansing State Journal 

  Interactive: Foreclosures in mid-Michigan

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• Rental prices hold steady Number of new renters keeps pace with increasing supply

  3 hrs ago | via Montgomery Advertiser 

  You might expect that as more and more people rent the houses they cannot sell during the cur rent real estate downturn, the in creased number of rental proper ties would bring about a drastic drop in rental ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home, Mortgage, Prattville, AL