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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

• New homes aim to curb market

  Jun 1, 2008 | via St. Joseph News-Press, St. Joseph, MO 

  Sam and Vivian Wright look over the new home being listed by Nancy Reinert on Sunday in The Greens of Ashland subdivision, 3112 Carlisle Court.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Andrew County, MO, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home

Regional Headlines

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Missouri Storm Victims

  Monday Jun 30 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to seven storm-ravaged counties in Missouri and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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

• Legislative recess hurts country

  Friday Jul 4 | via Springfield News Leader 

  As you're cooking up your burgers in the comfort of your back yard today, take just a minute to consider some of your neighbors.

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  Related Topix: Missouri, Foreclosures, US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• HUD to help homeowers in flood areas

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via KHQA-TV Quincy 

  The federal government says it will speed disaster assistance to seven storm-ravaged counties in Missouri, to help homeowners and low-income renters forced from their homes.

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  Related Topix: Missouri, Foreclosures

• Daily Briefing

  Monday Jun 30 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Chrysler LLC said Monday that it will close one Missouri plant indefinitely this fall and cut production at another because of slumping demand for trucks and other large vehicles.

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  Related Topix: Missouri, World News, Brussels, Belgium, Brabant, Belgium, Belgium, Home, Mortgage

• The ACORN Obama knows

  Monday Jun 30 | via Statesman Journal 

  If you don't know what ACORN is all about, you better bone up. This left-wing group takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers - you and me - and has leveraged nearly four decades of ...

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  Related Topix: Missouri, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Immigration Reform, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Beware of reverse mortage scams

  4 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

• Condo Volume for June down 52% from the high

  2 hrs ago | via Ardell's Seattle Real Estate Blog 

  The number of King County condo sales in June of this year is 52% lower than the highs of 2005 and 2006 and a little more than 50% lower than June of last year.

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• Acacia revamps and expands mortgage business

  3 hrs ago | via Bizjournals 

  While many lenders are ‘running away’ from residential mortgages, Acacia Federal CEO James Barber plans to almost quadruple the amount of home loans his bank originates each month.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• No Velvet Rope

  Thursday Jul 3 | via SmartMoney 

  THESE DAYS CONSUMERS are dealing with skyrocketing prices for everything from a gallon of gas to a gallon of milk.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Retirement

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  7 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