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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

• Animal shelter maintaining high adoption rate

  Sunday Jun 22 | via Lansing State Journal 

  IONIA - Stray and abandoned dogs that have been taken to the Ionia County Animal Shelter have stood a very good chance of walking out.

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  Related Topix: Ionia, MI, Ionia County, MI, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• US housing shows signs of recovery

  7 hrs ago | via Telegraph.co.uk 

  Housing is back in demand in the US - especially when homes can cost only 10,000, writes James Quinn Other than being home to cereal giant Kellogg's, the town of Battle Creek is little known outside the ...

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  Related Topix: Michigan, Weather, Housing

• Michigan Especially Hard Hit by Foreclosures

  Thursday Jul 3 | via The Epoch Times 

  According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, nearly 2 million loans were in foreclosure nationwide during the first quarter of 2008.

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

• Jobless Michiganders tell of fight for survival

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Detroit Free Press 

  A typical day for Jim Stoner might go something like this: Wake up early and head to a local library to search for jobs online.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Mount Clemens, MI, Michigan, Roseville, MI

• Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevadan at Work column

  Monday Jun 30 | via Hotel Online 

  Jun. 30--TRUMP EXEC USES PERSONALIZED CARE TO BUILD CUSTOMER BASE: Steve Shalit decided to go into the hotel business after a ski trip to Vail, Colo.

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  Related Topix: Michigan, Colorado, Colorado Government, Housing

• Profile: Steve Shalit - Vice President and Managing Director, Trump...

  Monday Jun 30 | via Hotel Online 

  June 30, 2008 - TRUMP EXEC USES PERSONALIZED CARE TO BUILD CUSTOMER BASE: Steve Shalit decided to go into the hotel business after a ski trip to Vail, Colo.

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  Related Topix: Michigan, Colorado, Colorado Government, Housing

National Headlines

• Senate to resume work today on housing bill

  3 min ago | via NAFCU 

  July 7, 2008 - The Senate returns to work today and is scheduled to vote on a motion to invoke cloture on what remains to be debated in a housing bill, including $300 million in guarantees for mortgage ...

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• June slack for county's builders

  6 min ago | via The Columbian 

  Clark County's home-building industry turned in another lackluster month in June at a time when the summer construction season is usually kicking into gear.

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  Related Topix: Clark County, WA, Home Building, Home, Housing

• Most folks in Otisville understand change

  6 min ago | via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record 

  We are working stiffs who wonder how on earth we will pay for gas, mortgages and heat.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Orange County, NY, Otisville, NY, Middletown, NY

• Housing market in Welsh town shows wider woes

  3 hrs ago | via Earthlink 

  "I'd love to, but I'm single and I can't afford to buy anything on my own, nobody would give me a mortgage," explained Williams, a delivery driver who has just moved back home with his parents after his rent ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Las Vegas, NV, Real Estate, Wrexham, Wales, Wales, United Kingdom, World News, United Kingdom, Home Listing, Home, Mortgage

• Sister-Owned Welch Builders Thrives Despite Tough Market

  8 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