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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Good times for rural banks

  May 24, 2008 | via Star Tribune 

  While farmers raise corn and wheat, many small-town bankers are growing profits.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Waverly, MN, Freeborn County, MN, Hartland, MN, Pierz, MN

• Housing programs can help struggling owners

  Feb 14, 2008 | via Albert Lea Tribune 

  Over $3 million in first-time home mortgages were written in Freeborn County over the past two years, with $2.3 million in mortgages written alone in 2006, through the Minnesota Cities Participation Program.

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  Related Topix: Freeborn County, MN, Albert Lea, MN, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Freeborn, MN

• LaFavre sues contractor for not paying subcontractor

  Feb 8, 2008 | via Albert Lea Tribune 

  Developer Scott LaFavre filed a lawsuit in Freeborn County District Court in January alleging that payments he made to Medford-based general contractor Niles-Wiese Construction Co.

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  Related Topix: Freeborn County, MN, Webster, MN, Albert Lea, MN, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures

• Eagle's Rest Sold

  Dec 20, 2007 | via KIMT 

  A controversial development goes on the auction block. American bank of St. Paul is buying the the foreclosed Eagle's Rest development in Albert Lea.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Albert Lea, MN, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• Bond insurer MBIA's losses expected to grow

  19 hrs ago | via The Morning Call 

  Q: I am very concerned about my shares of MBIA Inc. What are the prospects? V.R., via the Internet A: The world's largest bond insurer has taken charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Minnesota, Financial Markets

• MBIA Inc. Is Battered By Competition, Subprime Issues

  Friday | via Hartford Courant 

  I am very concerned about my shares of MBIA Inc. What are the prospects? - V.R. , via the Internet T he world's largest bond insurer has taken charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Minnesota, Financial Markets

• Good news for health care

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via St. Paul Pioneer Press 

  We break from regularly scheduled programming for this special report: Good news! Competition is improving health care in Minnesota! We refer to the latest report from MN Community Measurement, a nonprofit ... 6 comments

  Related Topix: Housing, Minnesota, Anoka, MN, Opinion

• Builders: Regulations keep suburban home prices unreasonably high

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via St. Paul Pioneer Press 

  Peter Orbidan, the owner of a carpentry company, works on a house in Fieldstone homes, Lakeville, on Thursday, June 12, 2008. 86 comments

  Related Topix: Housing, Minnesota Government, Minnesota

• Number of abandoned pets on the rise

  Monday Jun 30 | via KAAL-TV Austin 

  Whether it's high gas prices or foreclosures, the economy is taking a toll on Minnesotans.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Minnesota

National Headlines

• Sister-Owned Welch Builders Thrives Despite Tough Market

  2 min ago | via The Daily News 

  IN THE BLOOD: Dawn Kinard, who co-founded Welch Builders LLC with her sister, Danya Welch, stands beneath a portrait of her father, Jackie Welch, owner of Welch Realty.

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  Related Topix: Germantown, TN, Real Estate, Shelby County, TN, Collierville, TN, Opinion

• Pawning Jewels Or TV's For Gas $$$

  2 min ago | via WBAL-AM Baltimore 

  This Liberty Loan and Jewelry employee holds up a ring and a necklace recently sold at the shop.

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  Related Topix: Baltimore Metro, Gwynn-Oak, MD, Mortgage, Home

• American dream goes global

  7 min ago | via Boston.com 

  She was raised in a little wooden house with a thatched roof in the Dominican Republic, a nation she left behind 17 years ago to clean offices in Boston's skyscrapers and dorm rooms at Harvard University.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, World News, Dominican Republic, Central America, Boston, MA

• Beware of reverse mortage scams

  8 min ago | via Jacksonville Daily News 

  Columnist's Note: This letter has been edited for length. Dear Troubleshooter: I read your column all the time and find it most informative.

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  Related Topix: Family, Elderly, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  12 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