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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

• More people, not enough jobs, housing prices through the roof, Marist economic report says

  Friday Jun 27 | via Mid-Hudson News 

  POUGHKEEPSIE While the population of the Hudson Valley continues to grow, there are not enough jobs in the region to go around.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Poughkeepsie, NY, Columbia County, NY, Greene County, NY

• From across the state

  Jun 17, 2008 | via Democrat & Chronicle 

  In East Greenbush, Stan Cipkowski, CEO of drug-test kit maker American Bio Medica, told shareholders today that the FDA's failure to grant a waiver so it could sell its kits in clinical settings and ...

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  Related Topix: Scientific Instruments, Biotech, Medicine, American Bio Medica, Healthcare Industry, Kinderhook, NY, Columbia County, NY, Foreclosures

• Logjam hurts home market

  Jun 3, 2008 | via Daily Freeman 

  Columbia County has dodged the subprime mortgage debacle, but the county still faces another, persistent crisis: a serious shortage of affordable housing.

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  Related Topix: Chatham, NY, Hudson, NY, Columbia County, NY, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Evaluating real estate market can be difficult

  May 31, 2008 | via Times Union 

  Is the real estate market in Greene and Columbia counties stronger, weaker or the same as in the rest of the Capital Region? That isn't an easy question to answer.

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  Related Topix: New York, Catskill, NY, Greene County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Banking, Financial Services, Greene County Bancorp, Real Estate

• Veracity Payment Solutions Announces Strategic Alliance With Security Federal Bank

  Apr 30, 2008 | via Earth Times 

  Veracity Payment Solutions, a full-service electronic payments provider, announced today a strategic alliance with Security Federal Bank .

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

Regional Headlines

• Irwin to sell home equity loans for $1B

  1 hr ago | via IBJ.COM 

  Columbus-based Irwin Financial Corp. said late yesterday that it has struck a deal to sell $1 billion of home equity loans to a New York firm and to securitize an additional block of loans with the same firm.

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  Related Topix: New York, Irwin Financial, Banking, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage

• For the Record: News and Notices from Local Elected OfficialsJuly 24, 2008

  12 hrs ago | via The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 

  Assemblywoman Janele Hyer-Spencer , Assemblyman Michael Cusick and Assemblyman Matthew Titone announced the Assembly passed legislation addressing the subprime mortgage crisis and providing some assistance to ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, New York

• Fed Report Portrays Grim Economy

  21 hrs ago | via Realtor Magazine 

  The Federal Reserve's Beige Book report for the latest six-week period portrays the economy as increasingly weak across most of the U.S. All 12 districts reported slower home sales, continuing big inventories ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, New York, Mortgage, Home

• National City Rises as Chief Executive Says Bank Has `Sufficient Capital'

  21 hrs ago | via Bloomberg 

  National City Corp. rose as much as 11 percent in New York trading after Chief Executive Officer Peter Raskind said the bank, Ohio's largest, has enough capital to survive the credit-market contraction.

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  Related Topix: New York, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, National City Corporation, Banking, Financial Services, IndyMac Bancorp

• Sally Hogarty: 'I Hate Hamlet' a likeable comedy

  Wednesday | via Ledger Dispatch 

  IT MAY BE called "I Hate Hamlet," but there is much to like in the Orinda Starlight Village Players' current production of Paul Rudnick's comedy.

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  Related Topix: New York, Real Estate

National Headlines

• San Diego attorney goes to court to stop foreclosures

  2 min ago | via KTAR / Local / Stories 

  San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre wants to make his city a sanctuary city -- for homeowners in trouble.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• The housing bailout isn't just for troubled homeowners.

  2 min ago | via AARP The Magazine 

  RON LIEBER If you are ignoring the housing bailout bill because you think it benefits only troubled homeowners, you may miss out on a windfall.

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

• Market Watch

  3 min ago | via Honolulu Star-Bulletin 

  NEW YORK Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower yesterday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home, Housing, Home Selling, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Markets

• Foreclosure Filings More Than Double

  5 min ago | via WPTZ.com - Money 

  The number of households facing the foreclosure process more than doubled in the second quarter compared to a year ago.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• Stocks fall hard

  1 hr ago | via Seacoast Online 

  Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market's ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Home Selling, Home, Housing