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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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• Foreclosure Activity Increases 4 Percent in April

  Tuesday May 13 | via Realty Trac 

  Foreclosure filings - default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions - were reported on 243,353 properties, a 4 percent increase from the previous month and a nearly 65 percent increase from April ...

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  Related Topix: Vallejo, CA, Vallejo Metro, Foreclosures

• have We Reached the Market Bottom?

  Wednesday May 14 | via Redbankgreen 

  Counter The plunge in Shore-area real estate values that's been underway for almost two years is showing signs of abating, today's Asbury Park Press reports.

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  Related Topix: Asbury Park, NJ, Housing, Monmouth County, NJ, Ocean County, NJ, Real Estate

• Howell Woods enclave offers special grand-opening incentives

  9 hrs ago | via Asbury Park Press Online 

  Howell Woods is Ryan Homes' new single-family home enclave in Monmouth County, nestled in the established town of Howell.

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  Related Topix: Monmouth County, NJ, Home Listing, Home, Mortgage, Tinton Falls, NJ

• Budget analyst finds condo at Jersey Shore

  9 hrs ago | via Asbury Park Press Online 

  Traveling between the coasts, 35-year-old Karen Udvarhely rented for over a decade.

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  Related Topix: Monmouth Beach, NJ, Monmouth County, NJ, Real Estate

• Couple relies on Realtor's expertise for more than a decade

  Thursday May 15 | via Asbury Park Press Online 

  Carol and Bob Baker have bought and sold homes over the past ten years with the help of a professional Realtor.

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  Related Topix: Ocean County, NJ, Allenhurst, NJ, Long Branch, NJ, Real Estate, Monmouth County, NJ, Toms River, NJ

• Couple indicted; $1 million swindle alleged

  Wednesday May 14 | via Asbury Park Press Online 

  A grand jury handed up a 26-count indictment against a Long Branch couple accused of bilking investors out of more than $1 million.

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  Related Topix: Monmouth County, NJ, Foreclosures

• Home-equity lines stay open in southeastern New Jersey

  Yesterday | via Press of Atlantic City 

  As another consequence of the subprime mortgage fallout, some of the country's major lenders are suspending or heavily limiting home-equity lines of credit as a way to protect themselves from deflating home ...

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  Related Topix: Credit Card Debt, Personal Finance, Collingswood, NJ, Camden County, NJ, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, New Jersey

• Mt. Arlington Realtor receives top honor

  Wednesday May 14 | via Daily Record 

  Mount Arlington resident Patti DiGeronimo -- an associate with Prudential New Jersey Properties Roxbury -- has earned the Quality Service Certified Platinum award, one of the industry's top recognitions.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Mount Arlington, NJ, New Jersey, Home Buying

• Home sales up in N.J. but prices fall in U.S.

  Wednesday May 14 | via Daily Record 

  WASHINGTON -- Median home prices fell in two-thirds of cities surveyed during the first three months of 2008 while 46 states reported declining sales, a real estate trade group reported Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, New Jersey

• New Jersey real estate defies national trend: Sales rise 4 percent in first quarter of 2008

  Tuesday May 13 | via Home News Tribune 

  Sales volume of existing New Jersey single family homes, condominiums and co-ops in the first quarter of 2008 increased 4 percent from the same period last year, indicating New Jersey continues to defy national ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Atlantic City, NJ, New Jersey, Real Estate

• Moriarty/Love Introduce Bill to Criminalize Residential Mortgage

  Friday May 9 | via PoliticsNJ 

  Assemblyman Paul Moriarty and Assemblywoman Sandra Love have introduced legislation to address the many incidents of fraud that helped fuel the recent national mortgage meltdown.

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  Related Topix: New Jersey, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Donald Payne, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat

• Ask the experts: What can we learn from the subprime mortgage mess?

  Tuesday May 13 | via Alton Telegraph 

  The collapse of the subprime mortgage market and the jitters it's sending through the entire economy contain lessons for us all.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Real Estate

  12 min ago | via CBS News 

  U.S. Home Foreclosures Keep Rising More U.S. homeowners fell behind on mortgage payments last month, driving the number of homes facing foreclosure up 65 percent versus the same month last year and contributing ...

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

• Real estate bonuses may get scrutiny

  15 min ago | via Charlotte.com 

  After report, Easley letter, real estate rule gains traction PETER ST. ONGE pstonge@charlotteobserver.com N.C. regulators, reversing course, have called a special meeting later this month to address a proposed ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Home Buying, Raleigh, NC, Raleigh Metro

• Avoiding Financial Sickness to Achieve Financial Health

  18 min ago | via Catholic.org 

  Catholic Online "Attributes of Financial Disease" and "I am not sick, but I am not well." The previous two articles set forth twelve attributes of Financial Health.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage

• Some funds attract all faiths

  20 min ago | via San Bernardino County Sun 

  Moazzam Ahmed tried for years to square his investment goals with the tenets of Islam.

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  Related Topix: Energy, Telecom, IT Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance