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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

• Foreclosures exceed total for last year

  Saturday Jun 28 | via CulpeperNews.com, Culpeper, VA 

  Six months into the year and it's already worse than last year. Through June 13, a total of 187 properties - including 27 vacant lots in town - went into foreclosure this year in Culpeper, county records show.

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  Related Topix: Amissville, VA, Culpeper, VA, Culpeper County, VA, Foreclosures

• Norfolk Southern considering Rappahannock line

  Jan 29, 2008 | via Rappahannock News 

  Tony Vanderwarker of Albemarle County has been elected by the Board of Directors of the Piedmont Environmental Council as Chairman ... Uptick in foreclosures no cause for alarm, experts say The number of ...

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  Related Topix: Albemarle County, VA, Fort Valley, VA, Foreclosures, Culpeper, VA, Rappahannock County, VA, Chester Gap, VA

• Credit check

  Jan 29, 2008 | via Times Community Newspapers - Fauquier County 

  Lack of progress on illegal immigration is discouraging This past week at the General Assembly stands out because hundreds of people, along with outrageously cold weather, all descended ... Mental health reform ...

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  Related Topix: Weather, Immigration Reform, Rappahannock County, VA, Foreclosures

• Vanderwarker elected chairman

  Jan 26, 2008 | via Rappahannock News 

  Uptick in foreclosures no cause for alarm, experts say The number of foreclosures in Rappahannock County during the past 13 months is equal to the number the county experienced ... School funding bills clear ...

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  Related Topix: Fort Valley, VA, Foreclosures, Rappahannock County, VA, Fauquier County, VA, Albemarle County, VA

• Uptick in foreclosures no cause for alarm, experts say

  Jan 23, 2008 | via Rappahannock News 

  School funding bills clear first hurdles Two bills that might allow Rappahannock County to gain greater state funding for education passed through committees in the Virginia ... Planners support scaled-back ...

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  Related Topix: Fort Valley, VA, Culpeper County, VA, Culpeper, VA, Amissville, VA, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• Local Commentary

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Falls Church News-Press 

  With the Washington, D.C. region now impacted by one of the highest foreclosure rates in the U.S., questions abound about the future of its prospects for development and economic growth.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Virginia Government, Virginia

• U.S. Senate Candidate Mark Warner Opposes Affordable Homes

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Bubble Meter 

  A new campaign email from former Virginia governor and current U.S. Senate candidate Mark Warner suggests he believes the government has a responsibility to prop up overvalued home prices.

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  Related Topix: Virginia Government, Virginia, Housing

• More public records online; Metro localities remove personal information

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via NBC12 

  Anyone wanting to see public records like land deeds, mortgages and wills from any Virginia locality can now do it online.

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  Related Topix: Virginia, Personal Finance, Mortgage, Virginia Government, Social Security

• D.C. ranks high for increase in mortgage payments

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Washington Examiner 

  Would-be homebuyers are seeing their potential monthly mortgage payments creeping upward even though median home prices are holding steady inside the Beltway and dropping in farther-out areas.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Virginia

• Northern Virginia drags down region's recovery efforts

  Monday Jun 30 | via Washington Business Journal 

  New condominium sales in D.C. and suburban Maryland were up in the second quarter, but contract cancellations in Northern Virginia dragged down the Washington area's overall market.

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  Related Topix: Housing, The Associates, New-Wave, Home, Mortgage, Virginia

National Headlines

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  6 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

• Disaster capitalism: State of extortion

  8 min ago | via Rabble.ca 

  Once oil passed $140 a barrel, even the most rabidly right-wing media hosts had to prove their populist cred by devoting a portion of every show to bashing Big Oil.

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

• Major homeowner relief bill in Senate

  9 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  The unfinished work is a major relief bill designed to rescue hundreds of thousands of homeowners heading for foreclosure, pull new buyers back into the real estate arena and permanently raise conventional and ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, US News, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Housing Market Still Struggling; Positive Signs Beginning to Emerge

  9 min ago | via Seeking Alpha 

  With rising energy prices, falling nonfarm payrolls, a plunge in consumer confidence, and a host of other negative indicators, economists have plenty to worry about.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Mortgage, Home

• Ted Forstmann Says We're All Going to Hell

  10 min ago | via Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed 

  Ted Forstmann says we're all going to hell. That's the message I got from a cheerfully apocalyptic interview with financier Forstmann that appears in Monday's WSJ.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance