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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

• Red Coach hotel up for sheriff's sale

  Friday Jul 18 | via Kansas.com 

  A hotel near Mid-Continent Airport will be sold at sheriff's sale next month. The Airport Red Coach Inn of Wichita, built in the late 1990s as part of a McPherson-based hospitality chain, will be sold at 10 ...

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  Related Topix: McPherson, KS, Wichita Metro, Wichita, KS, Sedgwick County, KS, Foreclosures

• Countrywide sale complete

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Kansas.com 

  Bank of America will eliminate option adjustable-rate mortgage loans, limit use of low-documentation mortgage loans and enhance mortgage borrower protections as part of its acquisition of mortgage giant ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Sedgwick County, KS, Wichita, KS

• Deal to create area's largest lender

  Thursday Jun 26 | via Kansas.com 

  Bank of America's acquisition of Countrywide will create the biggest mortgage lender in the market.

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  Related Topix: Sedgwick County, KS, Mortgage, Home, Wichita Metro, Wichita, KS

• MetLife Bank to buy First Horizon Home Loans

  Jun 16, 2008 | via Kansas.com 

  One of the area's top-performing mortgage lenders is getting a new owner. MetLife Bank is acquiring First Horizon Home Loans, the mortgage origination and servicing business of First Tennessee Bank.

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  Related Topix: Sedgwick County, KS, Insurance, MetLife, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Wichita, KS

• Tips to police rise; slow economy a factor

  May 26, 2008 | via The Wichita Eagle 

  Calls to Wichita Crime Stoppers are up 70 percent over last year. Wichita police Detective Hans Asmussen says he thinks part of the increase is because more people are aware of he program.

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  Related Topix: Sedgwick County, KS, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• How they voted: Kansas roll call on housing bill

  Yesterday | via The Topeka Capital-Journal 

  How the Kansas delegation voted in the 272-152 roll call Wednesday by which the House passed a bill that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to prevent mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from ...

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

• AP Top Kansas News at 3:58 a.m. CDT Tuesday, ...

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Hays Daily News 

  A year after a refinery oil spill into floodwaters blanketed a third of this southeast Kansas town, little remains in the area that was damaged.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Coffeyville, KS, Kansas, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Pat Roberts, Todd Tiahrt, US House of Representatives

• Obama Veep Search Turns To Dodd

  Thursday Jul 10 | via CBS 5 

  Barack Obama's presidential campaign has requested information from Democratic Sen. 3 comments

  Related Topix: US Politics, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Kansas Government, Kansas

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Kansas Storm Victims

  Thursday Jul 10 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 46 storm-ravaged counties in Kansas and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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  Related Topix: Weather, Stafford, KS, Kansas, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Starbucks closing 600 stores nationwide

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  Starbucks Corp. said Tuesday it will close 600 company-operated stores in the next year, up dramatically from its previous plan for 100 closures, a sign the coffee shop operator is still feeling the pain from ...

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  Related Topix: Kansas, Mortgage, Personal Finance

National Headlines

• Foreclosures Up 121% From Last Year

  3 min ago | via WSRS-FM Paxton 

  Home foreclosure filings rose 14 percent in the second quarter, the eighth consecutive quarterly climb, and more than doubled from the same period a year-earlier, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on ...

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  Related Topix: Florida, OH, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing

• N.H. home sales off sharply in first half of '08

  3 min ago | via The Citizen 

  Meantime, the median sales price fell 8 percent, the New Hampshire Association of Realtors said Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Foreclosures

• 30-year mortgage rates rise in US

  4 min ago | via Houston Home-Journal 

  Mortgage rates have risen in the US over the past week with 30-year mortgages climbing to the highest level in nearly a year.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• US home foreclosures rise

  4 min ago | via BBC 

  The number of US homes in some stage of foreclosure more than doubled between April and June from the previous year.

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

• Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday

  5 min ago | via Ann Arbor News 

  The Senate has cleared the last hurdle to passing a massive housing rescue bill.

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