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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

• People on the Move for June 26, 2008

  Thursday Jun 26 | via Des Moines Register 

  NEW JOBS Laure Guisinger, senior vice president at Holmes Murphy & Associates, has been promoted to division leader of the property casualty and surety operations for the Des Moines office.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Ankeny, IA, Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Get advice from experienced house flippers

  Tuesday Jun 24 | via Springfield News Leader 

  House-flipping reality shows make the process of buying a dud, fixing it up and selling it for a mega-profit seem like an easy way to add thousands to your income.

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  Related Topix: Altoona, IA, Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Metro, Ankeny, IA, Real Estate

• Another bank files to foreclose on Regency property

  Friday Jun 13 | via Des Moines Register 

  A fifth lender has filed foreclosure proceedings against a Regency company and company executives - this time for property at the Woodland Reserve development in Ankeny.

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

• Banks sue 2nd big developer

  May 30, 2008 | via Des Moines Register 

  At least a dozen banks have filed lawsuits seeking payment and property from one of Iowa's largest land developers.

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  Related Topix: Altoona, IA, Ankeny, IA, Okoboji, IA, Dallas County, IA, Foreclosures

• this Old House

  May 29, 2008 | via Home News Tribune 

  House-flipping reality shows make the process of buying a dud, fixing it up and selling it for a mega profit seem like an easy way to add thousands to your income.

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  Related Topix: Altoona, IA, Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Metro, Ankeny, IA, Real Estate

Regional Headlines

• Basu: OK so far, but FEMA watch is on

  Friday Jun 27 | via Des Moines Register 

  If anything merits watching as closely as Iowa's levees these days, it's the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, US News, Home, Mortgage, Iowa, FEMA, Opinion

• City forgives 22-year-old loan to National Balloon Classic

  Friday Jun 27 | via Des Moines Register 

  A skeleton crew of Indianola City Council members agreed to forgive $66,000 in loans to the National Balloon Classic after 45 minutes of deliberation during their June 16 meeting.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Iowa

• Will victims abandon Iowa cities?

  Sunday Jun 22 | via Des Moines Register 

  Cedar Rapids, Ia. - This city's future is riding on people like Stella Wilson, and national experts say there is reason for hope.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Iowa, Cedar Rapids, IA

• Flood insurance fallacies confound some Iowans

  Wednesday Jun 18 | via Http 

  Yes, flood insurance remains available to virtually everyone in Iowa. But no, buying it today won't do anything to cover damage from the floods of June 2008.

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  Related Topix: Iowa, Linn County, IA, Cedar Rapids, IA, Home, Mortgage

• Rundown of Aid Provided to Flood Victims

  Tuesday Jun 17 | via KCRG 

  FEMA : Federal Emergency Management Administration is the primary agency that deals with disaster assistance.

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  Related Topix: US News, Agriculture, Science, United States Department of Agriculture, Iowa, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

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

  14 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