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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Jun 19, 2008 | via Realty Trac 

  The euphoria that surrounded six years of escalating home prices, record levels of home sales and rock-bottom interest rates crashed and burned in 2007, forcing many foreclosure investors to ratchet down their ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Housing, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Housing market slows

  Jun 8, 2008 | via Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 

  By Patrick Thornton * Central Wisconsin Sunday * June 8, 2008 Home foreclosures set a record in the United States for the first quarter of this year, and though central Wisconsin is much stronger than states ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Wisconsin Rapids, WI, Foreclosures, Portage County, WI, Stevens Point, WI

• Letter: Recent history points to only one way to vote

  Mar 15, 2008 | via WisInfo 

  Okay everyone, let's review: Oil prices are at their all time high, even after adjusted for inflation, and Exxon announces record profits but American job losses are at their worst in five years.

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

• Central Wisconsin economy holds steady despite national slump

  Mar 9, 2008 | via Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 

  The news for an already slumping national economy is only getting worse. This week, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported that 1.4 million homes will go into foreclosure this year, more than double the ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Housing, Portage County, WI, Wisconsin, Wood County, WI, Marshfield, WI

• National economic woes not felt locally

  Jan 23, 2008 | via WisInfo 

  Wall Street is bracing for a recession, but local economic observers aren't predicting doom and gloom on Main Street quite yet.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Portage County, WI, Foreclosures, Stevens Point, WI, Housing

Regional Headlines

• Mayor delivers keynote address at state clean water convention

  Yesterday | via Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter 

  Mayor Kevin Crawford's keynote address on Thursday at a Wisconsin Alliance of Cities convention "Clean Water: From Politics to Policy" framed the issues surrounding clean water mandates handed to municipalities ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Manitowoc, WI, Wisconsin Government, Wisconsin, Agriculture, Science

• Janesville recognized for affordable housing

  Thursday | via The Janesville Gazette - Janesville, Wisconsin 

  The city was ranked 16th in affordable housing. With a median home price of $124,700, Janesville was the only Wisconsin community to make the housing list.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Wisconsin, Real Estate

• Planned bill targets Wisconsin Supreme Court decision on lawsuits by homebuyers

  Monday Jul 21 | via Wisconsin State Journal 

  State lawmakers say they plan to introduce legislation next year that would reverse a state Supreme Court decision blocking home buyers from suing sellers for punitive damages when they lie about the condition ...

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Middleton, WI, Juneau, WI, Wisconsin, Real Estate

• Planning for the future

  Thursday Jul 10 | via The Daily Press 

  Senior citizens on fixed incomes aren't going to be surprised by the results of a report released this week that shows it is increasingly difficult to make ends meet.

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  Related Topix: Bayfield, WI, Ashland, WI, Wisconsin, Social Security, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Opinion

• Buyers lose recourse in frauds

  Sunday Jul 6 | via Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal 

  Home buyers who believe a seller has lied to them cannot sue for fraud to recover damages, a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court said Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Wisconsin, Real Estate, Brookfield, WI, Milwaukee Metro, Milwaukee Metro

National Headlines

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  6 min ago | via WLS 

  Congress passed a housing rescue bill Saturday aimed at sparing 400,000 struggling homeowners from foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Aid for returning veterans in housing rescue bill

  6 min ago | via Star Tribune 

  The housing rescue bill Congress passed Saturday includes a provision by Sen. Norm Coleman that would give returning veterans more time to work out mortgage problems upon their return.

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  Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Norm Coleman, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Federal Regulators Close Two More Banks

  6 min ago | via Mix 104.5 KKMY-FM 

  Federal regulators have closed two banks in the West, saying they were undercapitalized due to the poor performance of home mortgage loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Reno Metro, Reno, NV

• How they voted: Senate roll call on housing bill

  7 min ago | via Newsday.com 

  The 72-13 roll call Saturday by which the Senate passed a bill that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to prevent mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from failing.

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

• House Plants Joys and Benefits for the Indoor Gardener

  9 min ago | via American Chronicle 

  When you walk into a house that is filled with plants, you immediately feel at home.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home Listing, Home, Opinion