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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

• Area home sales down from last June

  Yesterday | via Kalamazoo Gazette 

  Home sales in the greater Kalamazoo area fell in June, the sixth straight month of year-over-year declines.

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  Related Topix: Kalamazoo, MI, Housing, Real Estate, Allegan, MI, Home, Mortgage, Kalamazoo County, MI

• HUD announces disaster relief for 10 Mich. counties

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Detroit Free Press 

  WASHINGTON - Federal housing officials are offering assistance - including foreclosure relief - to homeowners and low-income renters forced from their homes in 11 Michigan counties hit by recent storms and ...

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Washington Federal, Foreclosures, Allegan, MI, Manistee, MI

• Home sales jumped in May

  Jun 11, 2008 | via Ann Arbor News 

  Allegan County saw nearly 7 inches of rain fall Saturday and Sunday, and was left so awash in pathogens that the county health department is advising people to avoid contact with suspect beaches and any surface ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Allegan County, MI, Washtenaw County, MI, Weather

• County housing market reflects poor economy

  Feb 21, 2008 | via Allegan County News 

  The Allegan County Clerk/Register of Deeds' annual report shows some positive, but weak trends for the county's economy.

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  Related Topix: Allegan County, MI, Otsego, MI, Foreclosures

• Macatawa Bank Corporation Reports 2007 Annual and 4th Quarter Results

  Jan 14, 2008 | via PrimeNewswire 

  Macatawa Bank Corporation today announced its results for the fourth quarter of 2007 and for the full year.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Banking, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• Inflation takes hold in Europe

  Yesterday | via Detroit News 

  It took a few months. But the economic woes touched off by soaring oil prices and the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States are finally engulfing Europe.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Banking, Bank of America, Financial Services, Charlotte (University of North Carolina System), University of North Carolina System, Michigan

• University comes to Michigan's rescue

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Holland Sentinel 

  As job losses, foreclosures and other woes continue to batter Michigan, an unlikely savior has emerged from the halls of academia.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Michigan, Michigan Government, Ann Arbor (University of Michigan System)

• Big players in real estate now on the same team

  Thursday Jul 17 | via LivingstonDaily 

  Two of the biggest names in real estate in Livingston County have combined and created a new force in the market.

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  Related Topix: Livingston County, MI, Howell, MI, Real Estate, Brighton, MI, Michigan

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Michigan Storm Victims

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 11 storm-ravaged counties in Michigan and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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

• An unconstitutional amendment

  Sunday Jul 13 | via LivingstonDaily 

  What happens when a constitutional amendment is so complicated that the amendment itself becomes unconstitutional? We might be about to find out.

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Michigan, Michigan Government, Opinion

National Headlines

• Treasury Secretary Paulson calls bank system sound

  3 min ago | via KCPQ 

  Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. sought to reassure an anxious public today that the banking system was sound, while also bracing Americans for more troubled economic times ahead.

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  Related Topix: IndyMac Bancorp, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Treasury Chief Sees 'Months' of Hard Times

  5 min ago | via ABC News 

  Paulson Braces Public for Months of Tough Times Treasury chief braces people for months of tough times ahead, says US banking system is sound WASHINGTON July 20, 2008 The Associated Press 3 comments Treasury ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Paulson: Banking system sound, deposits protected

  12 min ago | via WAVE-TV Louisville 

  The treasury secretary says the list of troubled banks will grow longer as they struggle to cope with big losses on bad mortgages.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Banks sound but economy to take time: Paulson

  20 min ago | via West Linn Tidings 

  The U.S. economy needs months to recover from its slowdown, but the banking system remains sound despite a home mortgage crisis that could cause more problems, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, US News

• Many Ada County property owners get a break

  22 min ago | via Fort Mill Times 

  More than 1,000 property owners in southwestern Idaho's highly populated Ada County asked for a reduction in assessed property value in an attempt to lower their property taxes.

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  Related Topix: Ada County, ID, Real Estate