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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

• Insurance bills marked up in subcommittee

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Daily Record 

  Three insurance-related bills were marked up by the U.S. House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored Enterprises last week.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Pulaski County Records Battle

  Sunday Jun 29 | via ArkansasMatters 

  Sensitive personal records that are also of public record have been available at American courthouses for more than 70 years.

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  Related Topix: Pulaski County, AR, Home, Mortgage, Social Security, Little Rock, AR

• Daddy Warbucks

  Thursday Jun 26 | via Fayetteville Free Weekly 

  Housing bubble burst Another shoe has dropped in the federal government's delving into the mortgage loan morass in Northwest Arkansas.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Little Rock, AR, Little Rock Metro, Housing, Alexander, AR

• Arkansas Business On THV: Luxury Home Sales

  Jun 23, 2008 | via KTHV-TV 

  Arkansas Business takes a look at who's buying million-dollar homes in Pulaski County.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Pulaski County, AR

• Sales of Upscale Housing Fall, Reflecting Greater Trend

  Jun 22, 2008 | via ArkansasBusiness.com 

  Upscale residential real estate sales in Pulaski County have dropped compared with last year, but the drop follows a trend in the larger market.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Pulaski County, AR

Regional Headlines

• Home Prices Tumbled 4.8% in May as U.S. Banks Curbed Lending, Ofheo Says

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Bloomberg 

  U.S. home prices fell 4.8 percent in May from a year earlier as banks restricted lending after recording more than $400 billion in mortgage-related losses and writedowns.

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

• Economy Forces Arkansans to Borrow From 401K Plans

  Sunday Jul 13 | via KATV Little Rock 

  For many Arkansans, these tough economic times are forcing them to take drastic economic measures.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, 401K, Arkansas, Arkansas Government

• Twin Lakes Area real estate market hangs on to value

  Friday Jul 11 | via Baxter Bulletin 

  Homes sales in Baxter and Marion counties declined in May while average prices increased.

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  Related Topix: Mathematics, Science, Hot Springs, AR, Arkansas, Housing, Real Estate

• Help for Foreclosures in Region 8

  Monday Jul 7 | via KAIT-TV Jonesboro 

  In the past two years the number of foreclosures has doubled nationwide and we're starting to see the impact here in Region 8. While there are a lot of people in Region 8 that haven't been touched by the ...

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

• Public tipsters help foil fugitive murder suspect

  Friday Jul 4 | via Log Cabin Democrat 

  The image of fugitive murder suspect Nicholas Sheley's mug shot on her television screen was fresh in Samantha Butler's mind when the mother ventured out to get dinner for the family, warning them to lock the ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Reality TV, Crime TV, Entertainment, Television, Arkansas

National Headlines

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  3 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

  3 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

  4 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

  5 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

  7 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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