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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Thursday Jun 19 | 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

Regional Headlines

• Will AG Abbott Sue Countrywide?

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Capitol Annex 

  Via a new blog, Foreclosure Buzz , by Texas Rural Legal Aid attorney Robert Doggett, the question is posed with regard to lawsuits against mortgage lender Countrywide , " Is Texas Next? " Quoting the Forney ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Blog News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Texas

• Business briefly

  Friday Jul 4 | via Lubbock Avalanche-Journal 

  A hedge fund cheat who tried to fake his own death and spent nearly a month as a fugitive told a judge Thursday that he really did try to commit suicide while on the run, saying he thought it would be better to ...

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

• DFW area home foreclosures take a bigger bite

  Friday Jul 4 | via Star-telegram.com 

  By ANDREA JARES A higher percentage of homes is posted for foreclosure than 10 years ago, despite significant growth in the number of homes built and sold in recent years.The figures released Thursday from ...

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• 1 in 59 Metroplex homes posted for foreclosure this year

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Star-telegram.com 

  Andrea Jares A higher percentage of homes is posted for foreclosure than 10 years ago, despite a significant growth in the number of homes built and sold in recent years.The figures released Thursday from ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Housing, Texas

• Texans pull out of B&B fundraising

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Guardian Unlimited 

  TPG decided to use a get-out clause that allowed it to pull out of the financing .

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National Headlines

• Beware of reverse mortage scams

  8 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

• Condo Volume for June down 52% from the high

  2 hrs ago | via Ardell's Seattle Real Estate Blog 

  The number of King County condo sales in June of this year is 52% lower than the highs of 2005 and 2006 and a little more than 50% lower than June of last year.

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• Acacia revamps and expands mortgage business

  3 hrs ago | via Bizjournals 

  While many lenders are ‘running away’ from residential mortgages, Acacia Federal CEO James Barber plans to almost quadruple the amount of home loans his bank originates each month.

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• No Velvet Rope

  Thursday Jul 3 | via SmartMoney 

  THESE DAYS CONSUMERS are dealing with skyrocketing prices for everything from a gallon of gas to a gallon of milk.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Retirement

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  11 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