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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

Regional Headlines

• Bank leaders meet on fuel loans

  Yesterday | via Rutland Herald 

  Representatives of 16 of the 21 banks in the state met this week to talk about how to respond to requests for loans from homeowners and fuel dealers in the face of skyrocketing fuel oil costs.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Vermont, Vermont Government, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Bernard Sanders

• Officials say state banks remain safe

  Monday Jul 21 | via The Brattleboro Reformer 

  While the financial news has been dominated lately by home foreclosures and banking turmoil, officials in Vermont say there is no need to panic or start a new financial approach by stuffing dollars under a ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Vermont, Brattleboro, VT, Home, Mortgage

• My Turn: The real 'cost' of Rep. Kitzmiller

  Friday Jul 11 | via BurlingtonFreePress.com 

  In a recent e-mail to his constituents, Rep. Warren Kitzmiller wrote about workers' compensation insurance, 'Many in the business community were disappointed that I refused to slash benefits , but I think the ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Vermont

• Selling Fully Furnished

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Hartford Courant 

  Ralph and Catherine DeLeo have spent the past 10 years traveling around the world and, along the way, buying items to furnish their Southbury home.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Vermont, Housing

• Real Estate Market 2008

  Monday Jul 7 | via VermontGuides.com 

  "Today's market is very different from where it was 10 years ago, when clients came to brokers for the information because they couldn't get it anywhere else.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Real Estate, Vermont

National Headlines

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  2 min ago | via WLS 

  Congress passed a housing rescue bill Saturday aimed at sparing 400,000 struggling homeowners from foreclosure.

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

• Aid for returning veterans in housing rescue bill

  2 min ago | via Star Tribune 

  The housing rescue bill Congress passed Saturday includes a provision by Sen. Norm Coleman that would give returning veterans more time to work out mortgage problems upon their return.

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  Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Norm Coleman, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Federal Regulators Close Two More Banks

  2 min ago | via Mix 104.5 KKMY-FM 

  Federal regulators have closed two banks in the West, saying they were undercapitalized due to the poor performance of home mortgage loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Reno Metro, Reno, NV

• How they voted: Senate roll call on housing bill

  3 min ago | via Newsday.com 

  The 72-13 roll call Saturday by which the Senate passed a bill that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to prevent mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from failing.

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

• House Plants Joys and Benefits for the Indoor Gardener

  5 min ago | via American Chronicle 

  When you walk into a house that is filled with plants, you immediately feel at home.

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