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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

• Metro-east home sales down from a year ago

  Yesterday | via Belleville News 

  June housing market statistics released today show the metro-east continues to be strained by a troubled economy, joined by the rest of the state of Illinois.

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  Related Topix: Housing, St Clair County, IL, Madison County, IL, Real Estate

• Former Maryville man indicted for mortgage fraud

  Jun 20, 2008 | via Belleville News 

  A former Maryville man faces federal charges of mortgage loan fraud after agents said he falsely inflated his income to get a loan on a home in an exclusive neighborhood.

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  Related Topix: Maryville, IL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Madison County, IL, Cahokia, IL

• Alton attorney accidentally sues himself

  Jun 7, 2008 | via Freerepublic.com 

  Alton attorney Emert Wyss thought he could make money in a Madison County class action lawsuit, but he accidentally sued himself instead.

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  Related Topix: Madison County, IL, Wood River, IL, Alton, IL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Home sales fall throughout state, but not as much in metro-east

  May 10, 2008 | via Belleville News 

  Housing sales fell in Illinois and the metro-east during the first three months of 2008, but analysts expect sales to rebound soon.

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  Related Topix: St Clair County, IL, Housing, Madison County, IL, Real Estate, Home, Mortgage

• News Radio 1240 WTAX Springfield, IL

  Apr 22, 2008 | via WTAX-AM Springfield 

  Local housing sales down, prices up. The average selling price for a home in the Springfield area is up 4%, though home sales were down 29% for the month of March.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Housing, Madison County, IL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Springfield, IL

Regional Headlines

• Obama to NYT: - A Week of Great Press' but - We Don't BUY Our Own Hype'

  17 min ago | via TheBlueSheet 

  In an interview with the New York Times' excellent Jeff Zeleny , Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., says he's not "measuring the drapes" for the Oval Office, and that "we don't buy our own hype." He discussed the risks ...

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  Related Topix: Publishing, New York Times, Illinois, Illinois Government, Foreclosures, US Politics, John McCain, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Blago Calls On Bush To Sign Housing Package

  1 hr ago | via Cbs2chicago.com 

  Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today sent a letter to President Bush calling on him to quickly sign the Housing and Economic Stimulus Package which will provide more than $500 million in federal aid to support tax ...

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

• Collar counties' sales, median home prices up in June

  8 hrs ago | via Courier News 

  Home sales in the collar counties picked up in June from May sales figures, and the median sale prices edged up as well, according to the Illinois Association of Realtors' latest report.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Illinois, Real Estate

• Nevada Leads Foreclosure Tally in 2Q

  20 hrs ago | via Realtor Magazine 

  One in every 171 households received a foreclosure notice during the second quarter, an increase of 121 percent compared with the same quarter in 2007, according to RealtyTrac, which monitors foreclosure ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Illinois

• Roskam votes against blank check for Bush Administration

  23 hrs ago | via Illinoisreview 

  Roskam broke ranks with the Bush Administration yesterday on the mortgage bill, citing lack of oversight and resulting increased federal spending as his main complaints.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, US News, Illinois, Illinois Government

National Headlines

• U.S. Senate to Vote on Housing Bill

  6 min ago | via RedOrbit 

  The U.S. Senate, meeting in a rare weekend session, was poised Saturday to pass a landmark housing bill meant to ease the effects of mortgage crisis.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• U.s. Congress Passes...

  6 min ago | via 102.9 CKDS-FM 

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

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, George Bush, US Politics, US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  6 min ago | via WLOS 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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

• Federal Regulators Close Two More Banks

  7 min ago | via Z 106.7 Jackson 

  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

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  7 min ago | via Examiner.com 

  Jul 26, 2008 10:03 AM By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, AP Newly built homes are offered for sale at the Brookville & Heirloom development by Lennar, in Valencia, Calif.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home Listing, Home