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• Beyond the Foreclosure Blame Game

  Wednesday Jun 18 | via Realty Trac 

  Real estate investors are becoming a convenient scapegoat for many looking to assign blame for the recent surge in foreclosures and faltering real estate market.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Local Headlines

• Housing crisis may end sooner rather than later

  22 hrs ago | via LA Daily News 

  This real estate market collapse is starting to send signals that it will differ from the last one in one key aspect: It may not last as long. 5 comments

  Related Topix: Northridge, CA, Home, Mortgage, Real Estate

• Compounding the pain

  Friday Jul 4 | via Los Angeles Times 

  Three years ago, Donna Robbins tried to use her soaring equity to remodel her house in this Napa Valley community.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles County, CA, Foreclosures, American Canyon, CA

• LA, Miami foreclosures more than double: report

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Reuters 

  NEW YORK - New foreclosures almost quadrupled in Los Angeles and more than doubled in Miami in the second quarter from a year ago, with over $5 billion of mortgages turning sour in LA alone, real estate ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Los Angeles County, CA

• Real Homes of Genius: Today we Salute you Brea. A Home that Shows...

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Dr. Housing Bubble Blog 

  Real Homes of Genius: Today we Salute you Brea. A Home that Shows Each Phase of the California Housing Bubble.

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  Related Topix: Culver City, CA, Beverly Hills, CA, Los Angeles County, CA, Real Estate

• Los Angeles, Miami Foreclosures Double as Up to $5 Billion of Loans Go Bad

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Bloomberg Business News 

  New foreclosures almost quadrupled in Los Angeles and doubled in Miami in the second quarter, with as much as $5 billion worth of loans going bad in L.A. alone, the online real estate data company ...

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  Related Topix: Miami Dade County, FL, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• Californians feel pinch--and pinch pennies

  15 hrs ago | via McClatchy DC 

  Skyrocketing gas prices have collided with layoffs, foreclosures and food costs to change the way we live in everyday ways.

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  Related Topix: California, Foreclosures

• Good food gives chef satisfaction

  23 hrs ago | via Hattiesburg American 

  Pilgrimages are typically once-in-a-lifetime events. If one is lucky he or she might get to make two or three pilgrimages over the course of their life.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

• Builder incentives: Just marketing, or the real deal?

  20 hrs ago | via KCPQ 

  Most new-home buyers find it hard to resist the lure of builder incentives -- paid closing costs, an allowance for free upgrades at the design center or interest-rate buy-downs. But are they really worth it? ...

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  Related Topix: Marketing, California, Foreclosures, Construction, William Lyon Homes, Home Listing, Home

• Another 'gimmick'

  22 hrs ago | via Fresno Bee 

  Governor's lottery plan gains few defenders. There's not much good news at the moment about the state budget -- it's overdue, as usual; there's no sign of agreement anytime soon; no permanent fix is in sight -- ...

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  Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Nontraditional tenants occupy dark stores at malls

  Saturday | via Journal News 

  Community college classes in the old mall movie theater. A DMV office across from the Starbucks.

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  Related Topix: Housing, California, California Government

National Headlines

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  6 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

• Disaster capitalism: State of extortion

  8 min ago | via Rabble.ca 

  Once oil passed $140 a barrel, even the most rabidly right-wing media hosts had to prove their populist cred by devoting a portion of every show to bashing Big Oil.

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

• Major homeowner relief bill in Senate

  9 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  The unfinished work is a major relief bill designed to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners heading for foreclosure, pull new buyers back into the real estate arena and permanently raise conventional and ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, US News, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Housing Market Still Struggling; Positive Signs Beginning to Emerge

  9 min ago | via Seeking Alpha 

  With rising energy prices, falling nonfarm payrolls, a plunge in consumer confidence, and a host of other negative indicators, economists have plenty to worry about.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Mortgage, Home

• Ted Forstmann Says We're All Going to Hell

  10 min ago | via Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed 

  Ted Forstmann says we're all going to hell. That's the message I got from a cheerfully apocalyptic interview with financier Forstmann that appears in Monday's WSJ.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance