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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

• First Financial Bank Breaks Ground On New Decatur

  Feb 11, 2008 | via Huliq.com 

  First Financial Bank , N.A., a subsidiary of First Financial Bankshares, Inc. , announced that it will relocate its branch in Decatur, Texas, to a new office being built at the northeast corner of Hale Avenue ...

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  Related Topix: Wise County, TX, Texas, Decatur, TX, Home, Mortgage, First Financial Bankshares, Banking, Financial Services, Southlake, TX

• Market Conditions: Wise County, Texas

  Feb 5, 2008 | via Realty Times 

  Tana Fedric reports that Wise County and the rest of North Texas are growing nicely, with plenty of new home construction and subdivisions being developed.

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  Related Topix: Wise County, TX, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• Will AG Abbott Sue Countrywide?

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Capitol Annex 

  Via a new blog, Foreclosure Buzz , by Texas Rural Legal Aid attorney Robert Doggett, the question is posed with regard to lawsuits against mortgage lender Countrywide , " Is Texas Next? " Quoting the Forney ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Blog News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Texas

• Business briefly

  Friday Jul 4 | via Lubbock Avalanche-Journal 

  A hedge fund cheat who tried to fake his own death and spent nearly a month as a fugitive told a judge Thursday that he really did try to commit suicide while on the run, saying he thought it would be better to ...

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

• DFW area home foreclosures take a bigger bite

  Friday Jul 4 | via Star-telegram.com 

  By ANDREA JARES A higher percentage of homes is posted for foreclosure than 10 years ago, despite significant growth in the number of homes built and sold in recent years.The figures released Thursday from ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Texas

• 1 in 59 Metroplex homes posted for foreclosure this year

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Star-telegram.com 

  Andrea Jares A higher percentage of homes is posted for foreclosure than 10 years ago, despite a significant growth in the number of homes built and sold in recent years.The figures released Thursday from ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Housing, Texas

• Texans pull out of B&B fundraising

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Guardian Unlimited 

  TPG decided to use a get-out clause that allowed it to pull out of the financing .

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  Related Topix: Texas, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

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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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• 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

  7 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

  9 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