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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

• Puyallup and Pierce County Real Estate Statistics

  Monday Jun 23 | via Puyallup Undressed 

  These statistics are going to be no big surprise to anyone. They mostly represent the same things we have been seeing.

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  Related Topix: Pierce County, WA, Puyallup, WA, Housing

• Homebuyers look to cut commutes and fuel costs

  Thursday Jun 19 | via The Olympian 

  South Sound homebuyers are looking for houses closer to work, to cut the high cost of commuting brought on by record fuel prices, real estate agents and their customers said Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Pierce County, WA, Centralia, WA, Home Buying, Home, Steilacoom, WA

• ABCs: Always Be Closing

  Wednesday Jun 18 | via Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

  Recent data published by the Tacoma News Tribune suggests that the real estate market in DuPont is stable when compared to other communities in Pierce County, and certainly when compared nationally.

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  Related Topix: Seattle Metro, Tacoma Metro, Tacoma, WA, Real Estate, Pierce County, WA, Housing

• Bus station in Tacoma's old Elks temple makes sense

  Sunday Jun 15 | via Tacoma News Tribune 

  To get hyped up over the latest idea to restore Tacoma's old Elks Temple downtown - by converting the ground floor into a grand bus station - we first have to get past all the hype.

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  Related Topix: Portland Metro, Portland Metro, Pierce County, WA, Housing, Tacoma Metro, Tacoma, WA, Opinion

• Median home price falls around Pierce County

  Thursday Jun 12 | via Tacoma News Tribune 

  The month of May provided a little bit of price change variety around Pierce County, giving a few areas year-over-year median home price gains while the countywide number fell as it has for eight of the past ...

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  Related Topix: Pierce County, WA, Housing, Bonney Lake, WA, Eatonville, WA, Lakewood, WA, Roy, WA

Regional Headlines

• Washington's population is growing, but slower than before

  Friday Jul 4 | via Seattle Times 

  The state's population continues to grow, but that growth appears to be slowing because of faltering economies across the nation, according to the state's Office of Financial Management.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Washington

• Population grows, pace slowing

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Seattle Times 

  The state's population continues to grow, but appears to be slowing down because of a faltering economy, according to the state's Office of Financial Management.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Washington

• Governor Gregoire: Seeking To Pull License of Nation's Biggest Mortgage Lender

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via KCPQ 

  Governor Christine Gregoire says Countrywide Home Loans will not operate in Washington.

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  Related Topix: Washington, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Operation Malicious Mortgage Indictments in Washington

  Thursday Jun 19 | via Federal Bureau of Investigation 

  SIX INDICTED FOR MORTGAGE FRAUD IN OPERATION "MALICIOUS MORTGAGE" Lawyer, Mortgage Broker and Others Conspire in $8.5 million Fraud, "Flipping" Dozens of Houses Six people were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury ...

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  Related Topix: Washington, Sammamish, WA, Seattle Metro, Seattle Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• What do Governor Gregoire's actions mean for local Countrywide...

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide 

  What do Governor Gregoire's actions mean for local Countrywide employees and short selling homeowners? June 25, 2008 Is Governor Gregoire just a little too late in regards to Countrywide's lending tactics? ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Washington, Washington Government, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Sister-Owned Welch Builders Thrives Despite Tough Market

  4 min ago | via The Daily News 

  IN THE BLOOD: Dawn Kinard, who co-founded Welch Builders LLC with her sister, Danya Welch, stands beneath a portrait of her father, Jackie Welch, owner of Welch Realty.

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  Related Topix: Germantown, TN, Real Estate, Shelby County, TN, Collierville, TN, Opinion

• Pawning Jewels Or TV's For Gas $$$

  4 min ago | via WBAL-AM Baltimore 

  This Liberty Loan and Jewelry employee holds up a ring and a necklace recently sold at the shop.

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  Related Topix: Baltimore Metro, Gwynn-Oak, MD, Mortgage, Home

• American dream goes global

  8 min ago | via Boston.com 

  She was raised in a little wooden house with a thatched roof in the Dominican Republic, a nation she left behind 17 years ago to clean offices in Boston's skyscrapers and dorm rooms at Harvard University.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, World News, Dominican Republic, Central America, Boston, MA

• Beware of reverse mortage scams

  10 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

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  13 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