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• Washington Profits From Foreclosures

  Monday Apr 28 | via Realty Trac 

  There's a new initiative on the table in Washington, one that could do a lot to reduce foreclosures nationwide while actually generating a profit for Uncle Sam.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank, Democrat, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

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• Online Auctions: Good Sense for Buyers and Sellers

  Thursday May 8 | via Realty Trac 

  It's no secret that more people are buying more products through online auctions, and real estate is no exception.

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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home

• Jefferson County has no choice but to find a higher rated company to insure its troubled sewer bonds

  Monday May 5 | via Birmingham News Online 

  Jefferson County's sewer bond woes continue to worsen. Interest rates on some of the bonds have more than doubled, and the county's payments have risen sharply.

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  Related Topix: Financial Security Assurance Holdings, Insurance, Jefferson County, NY, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

• Bond insurer FGIC downgraded on sewer mess

  Apr 1, 2008 | via CNN Money 

  Sewer mess gets FGIC downgraded The bond insurers are back in the news. Moody's has downgraded the triple-A insurer financial strength rating of FGIC.

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  Related Topix: Insurance, Ambac Financial Group, Alabama, MBIA, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Home sales in region buck trend statewide

  Mar 31, 2008 | via Watertown Daily Times 

  Sales of existing single-family houses in New York declined markedly in February over sales recorded two years ago.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, St Lawrence County, NY

• Alabama, California Auction Failures Spotlight `Dark Side' of Wall Street

  Mar 20, 2008 | via Bloomberg 

  Local governments across the U.S. are learning an expensive lesson from the auction-rate bond market: When Wall Street bankers offer a financing deal that seems too good to be true, it may just be.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage

• Wisconsin Real Estate Agent Found Dead

  Mar 20, 2008 | via Newsday.com 

  A 71-year-old real estate agent was found dead inside a smoke-filled rural home she had shown to a client earlier in the day. 2 comments

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

• The Old Titans All Collapsed. Is the U.S. Next?

  Yesterday | via Washington Post 

  By Kevin Phillips Sunday, May 18, 2008; Page B03 Back in August, during the panic over mortgages, Alan Greenspan offered reassurance to an anxious public.

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  Related Topix: Housing, New York

• Fannie Mae Bows to Pressure, Will Reduce Down Payments in Weakest Markets

  Friday | via Bloomberg 

  Fannie Mae , backing down from pressure from homeowner and real estate groups, will allow buyers in markets with falling home prices to purchase houses with 3 percent down payments, potentially increasing the ...

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  Related Topix: Credit Suisse Asset Mnagement Income Fund, Financial Services, New York, Housing, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank, Democrat

• This Week in the Economy

  Friday | via Motley Fool 

  Take whatever stigma you've attached to economics and check it at the door. This stuff can really get you going.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Financial Services, Foreclosures, New York, Merrill Lynch and Co, Investment Services

• Foreclosure Bill Stalls in Senate

  Friday | via KnowledgePlex.org News 

  New York's proposed foreclosure freeze is getting a cold reception in the state Senate, to the chagrin of some Democrats.

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  Related Topix: New York Government, New York, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• 'Charlotte Observer' and Inman Syndicate Among Winners of Real Estate Awards

  Thursday May 15 | via Editor & Publisher 

  NEW YORK The Charlotte Observer and the Inman News syndicate are among the many winners of the National Association of Real Estate Editors' 58th Annual Journalism Awards.

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  Related Topix: New York, Home, Mortgage

• Retail properties dressed for distress

  6 min ago | via MSN Money 

  For David Simon, chief executive of Simon Property Group , the largest U.S. owner of malls and shopping centers, retail property may be less about dress this year and more about distress.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Real Estate, Simon Property Group

• Ewaan Global Residential Company appoints TBWA\RAAD Saudi Arabia as...

  9 min ago | via AME Info 

  A residential development worth SR1,200m is to be launched in north Jeddah following the appointment of TBWA\RAAD as marketing communications agency for EWAAN projects in the Kingdom.

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Real Estate

• St. Louis Real Estate-Market Watch May 17th, 2008

  10 min ago | via St. Louis Real Estate Voice 

  St. Louis Real Estate Market Watch by Art Wagner @ Keller Williams Realty Southwest, Sunset Hills, Mo.

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  Related Topix: Sunset Hills, MO, Real Estate, Housing

• Cook County Sheriff

  14 min ago | via Baker County Standard 

  Find Cook foreclosures from a large database of foreclosure listings in the country from ForeclosureFreeSearch.com. www.foreclosurefreesearch.com Inmate Search Unlimited $19 Search for Inmate Record & ...

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  Related Topix: Cook County, IL, Foreclosures

• Chester County

  14 min ago | via Baker County Standard 

  ALMOST NEW 2,000 SQFT three story brick facade, end unit with southern exposure! Very bright and cheery home next to open space on a quiet low traffic street.

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  Related Topix: Chester County, PA, Foreclosures, Medicine, Health, Massage Therapy, Health, Kennett Square, PA