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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

• FHA Aims To Stop No-Money Loan Program

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via NPR 

  Most home loans that don't require a down payment disappeared when the housing bubble burst and lenders became more careful.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, US News, Gary Miller, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives

• Loudoun Home Price Declines Steepest in Region

  Mar 30, 2008 | via Loudoun County Extra-Washington Post 

  Loudoun County had the Washington region's sharpest drop in home prices last year.

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  Related Topix: Loudoun County, VA, Washington Post, Publishing, Home Listing, Home, Aldie, VA, Housing

• Foreclosures up in county

  Apr 24, 2008 | via Clarke Times-Courier 

  Foreclosures up in county A small group of about a dozen people clustered together outside the main entrance to the county courthouse in Berryville Monday morning, taking temporary shelter from the light, ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Clarke County, VA, Berryville, VA, Boyce, VA

• Real Estate Transfers

  Apr 19, 2008 | via Clarke Times-Courier 

  Real Estate Transfers Feb. 2008 Patricia Van Irby-Schellenberg to Grace Palagi, Battletown District, 477,500. Wallace W. and Shawna Hartsook to Terry P. and Stacey Ellis, Chapel District, $295,000. Mary Louise ...

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  Related Topix: Stanley, VA, Clarke County, VA, Home, Mortgage

• Loudoun County

  Mar 28, 2008 | via The Washington Post 

  By M.J. McAteer Special to The Washington Post Sunday, March 30, 2008; Page R08 Loudoun County had the Washington region's sharpest drop in home prices last year.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Loudoun County, VA, Home Listing, Home, Washington Post, Publishing, Aldie, VA

Regional Headlines

• Local Commentary

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Falls Church News-Press 

  With the Washington, D.C. region now impacted by one of the highest foreclosure rates in the U.S., questions abound about the future of its prospects for development and economic growth.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Virginia Government, Virginia

• U.S. Senate Candidate Mark Warner Opposes Affordable Homes

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Bubble Meter 

  A new campaign email from former Virginia governor and current U.S. Senate candidate Mark Warner suggests he believes the government has a responsibility to prop up overvalued home prices.

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  Related Topix: Virginia Government, Virginia, Housing

• More public records online; Metro localities remove personal information

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via NBC12 

  Anyone wanting to see public records like land deeds, mortgages and wills from any Virginia locality can now do it online.

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  Related Topix: Virginia, Personal Finance, Mortgage, Virginia Government, Social Security

• D.C. ranks high for increase in mortgage payments

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Washington Examiner 

  Would-be homebuyers are seeing their potential monthly mortgage payments creeping upward even though median home prices are holding steady inside the Beltway and dropping in farther-out areas.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Virginia

• Northern Virginia drags down region's recovery efforts

  Monday Jun 30 | via Washington Business Journal 

  New condominium sales in D.C. and suburban Maryland were up in the second quarter, but contract cancellations in Northern Virginia dragged down the Washington area's overall market.

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  Related Topix: Housing, The Associates, New-Wave, Home, Mortgage, Virginia

National Headlines

• 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

• Condo Volume for June down 52% from the high

  2 hrs ago | via Ardell's Seattle Real Estate Blog 

  The number of King County condo sales in June of this year is 52% lower than the highs of 2005 and 2006 and a little more than 50% lower than June of last year.

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  Related Topix: Housing

• Acacia revamps and expands mortgage business

  3 hrs ago | via Bizjournals 

  While many lenders are ‘running away’ from residential mortgages, Acacia Federal CEO James Barber plans to almost quadruple the amount of home loans his bank originates each month.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• No Velvet Rope

  Thursday Jul 3 | via SmartMoney 

  THESE DAYS CONSUMERS are dealing with skyrocketing prices for everything from a gallon of gas to a gallon of milk.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Retirement

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  11 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