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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

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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

• Money woes impact county: Government, business & citizens brace for higher fuel, food prices

  Thursday | via Shore Progress 

  Gasoline and grocery prices, along with foreclosure rates, are increasing in Worcester County, mirroring the national trend and causing changes in daily habits.

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  Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law, Baked Goods, Life, Food, Bread, Salisbury, MD, Ocean Pines, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Foreclosures

• High costs tie would-be home owners to rentals

  Apr 6, 2008 | via Daily Times 

  Katie Weisner and Brennan Jones are getting married July 13, and they've created a wedding registry consisting of one item.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home Buying, Somerset County, MD, Wedding, Wicomico County, MD

• Sassafras Meadows gets tax discount

  Feb 26, 2008 | via The Daily Times 

  SALISBURY -- Victoria Park at Sassafras Meadows, a proposed affordable housing project for senior citizens, received a tax discount Monday from Salisbury that its developer hopes sets a precedent.

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  Related Topix: Wicomico County, MD, Salisbury, MD, Foreclosures

• Expert: Housing market set for rebound

  Feb 22, 2008 | via Daily Times 

  The abundant "for sale" signs outside Lower Shore and Sussex County homes will continue plaguing this year's real estate market and dog the economy, a leading Salisbury appraiser predicts.

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  Related Topix: Salisbury, MD, Real Estate, Wicomico County, MD, Housing

• Shore's foreclosed properties garner attention

  Jan 27, 2008 | via Daily Times 

  City Councilwoman Shanie Shields will soon lose a Delaware Avenue home long in her family for the same reason why thousands nationally can't make mortgage payments.

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Salisbury, MD, Wicomico County, MD, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• State's credit unions elude full force of mortgage mess

  Sunday May 11 | via Bizjournals 

  Some Baltimore-area institutions even grew earnings last year Baltimore Business Journal - by Rachel Sams Staff In a year of gloomy banking headlines, Destinations Credit Union grew earnings by nearly 50 ...

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

• Prosecute the Mortgage Sharks

  Saturday Apr 26 | via Washington Post 

  Sunday, April 27, 2008; Page F01 When Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson released the government's blueprint for overhauling the nation's financial regulatory structure, he promised to direct more attention ...

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  Related Topix: Sales, Mortgage, Home, Maryland, Opinion

• Economy Troubles Delay Retirement

  Tuesday May 13 | via WMAR 

  Donna Vergil saves money where she can. She said, "I shop at Safeway because if I spend 50 bucks I get 10 cents off the gas prices here at their station," she said.

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

• Time for rescue

  Monday May 12 | via Baltimore Sun 

  It's time for President Bush and Republicans in the Senate to stop playing politics and agree to support a plan to help rescue hundreds of thousands of families, including Marylanders, who are in danger of ... 18 comments

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

• Health Partners tastes sweet charity from agents

  Friday May 9 | via The Independent 

  Tatiana and Eric Vrem put last minute touches on one of the cakes they donated to the Dessertfest auction that benefits Health Partners Inc.

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  Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Real Estate, Maryland

• Big Bills on Housing: Residents challenge taxes

  8 min ago | via Detroit Free Press 

  Property assessments prove hard to change BY CECIL ANGEL * FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER * May 18, 2008 Eileen McDonell put her Westland home on the market two weeks ago because the 91-year-old widow wants to move to ...

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  Related Topix: Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro, Detroit Metro, Housing, Farmington Hills, MI, Commerce Township, MI

• Alabama Bucks Nationwide Foreclosure Trend

  10 min ago | via WSFA-TV Montgomery 

  Closing the deal on a new home can be stressful. Imagine, however, if you lost the house you'd lived in for years--all because you couldn't pay your mortgage.

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

• Retail properties dressed for distress

  13 min ago | via Globeinvestor.com 

  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

• Mortgage Loan Representative

  21 min ago | via The Spokesman-Review 

  This person works with real estate agents to obtain loan applications for Washington Trust Bank and their primary responsibility is to develop business relationships with real estate agents.

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

• More go off-grid as economy tanks

  29 min ago | via Solar panels, wind turbines, renewable energy, water 

  As world food and energy prices continue to increase, more than 8,000 American households are entering the foreclosure process every day.

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