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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

• Syracuse Realtors See Strong Market

  Jan 8, 2006 | via The Real Estate Bloggers 

  To keep the theme that a housing bubble will not affect every community, Syracuse realtors are looking for a strong year.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Onondaga County, NY

Regional Headlines

• Wachovia Corp.

  Yesterday | via Birmingham Business Journal 

  Leaning up against the wall in Chris Varley's office is a print of the 1980s' painting by Jimmy Dyer, "The Closing." In the picture, business people are sitting or standing around a large boardroom table that ...

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  Related Topix: Banking, JP Morgan Chase , New York, Financial Services, Computers, Wachovia Corporation, Home, Mortgage

• Fillmore RE Reports Strongest Quarter Yet

  Thursday Jul 3 | via The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 

  Fillmore Real Estate, a Brooklyn-based, privately-owned and operated residential real estate firm, reports having its best three-month period ever - ' striking for a soft market, according to John Reinhardt, ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, New York

• Wachovia

  Thursday Jul 3 | via The Business Journal of Phoenix 

  On the face of it, one of the nation's largest mortgage lenders and a San Francisco activist group hell-bent on blocking development would seem like strange bedfellows.

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  Related Topix: Banking, JP Morgan Chase , New York, Financial Services, Wachovia Corporation, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Business in the Burbs: Existing home prices up in Putnam, Westchester despite sales declines

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Journal News 

  Sales and median prices of existing homes continued to show weakness year-over-year in May across most of New York state.

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  Related Topix: Putnam County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Housing, New York Metro, New York, Rockland County, NY

• New York City office market under strain

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via International Herald Tribune 

  NEW YORK : The Manhattan office market, far and away the largest in the United States, is showing signs of strain under the weight of the ills suffered by the financial sector, according to real estate services ...

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  Related Topix: New York, Real Estate, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Sister-Owned Welch Builders Thrives Despite Tough Market

  3 min ago | via The Daily News 

  IN THE BLOOD: Dawn Kinard, who co-founded Welch Builders LLC with her sister, Danya Welch, stands beneath a portrait of her father, Jackie Welch, owner of Welch Realty.

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  Related Topix: Germantown, TN, Real Estate, Shelby County, TN, Collierville, TN, Opinion

• Pawning Jewels Or TV's For Gas $$$

  3 min ago | via WBAL-AM Baltimore 

  This Liberty Loan and Jewelry employee holds up a ring and a necklace recently sold at the shop.

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  Related Topix: Baltimore Metro, Gwynn-Oak, MD, Mortgage, Home

• American dream goes global

  7 min ago | via Boston.com 

  She was raised in a little wooden house with a thatched roof in the Dominican Republic, a nation she left behind 17 years ago to clean offices in Boston's skyscrapers and dorm rooms at Harvard University.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, World News, Dominican Republic, Central America, Boston, MA

• Beware of reverse mortage scams

  9 min ago | via Jacksonville Daily News 

  Columnist's Note: This letter has been edited for length. Dear Troubleshooter: I read your column all the time and find it most informative.

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  Related Topix: Family, Elderly, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  12 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