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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Jun 19, 2008 | 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

Local Headlines

• A Break From the Yard In Suburban Maple Lawn

  Friday Jul 11 | via Washington Post 

  Prasad Karunakaran, left, chats with neighbor Pradeep Sinha in the Maple Lawn community.

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  Related Topix: Sykesville, MD, Home, Mortgage, Gaithersburg, MD, Howard County, MD

• Some metro prices drop to 3-year lows

  Friday Jul 11 | via The Baltimore Sun 

  Average home prices dropped to three- or even four-year lows in parts of the metro area last month as sales continued to slump. 19 comments

  Related Topix: Housing

• Networking to Increase Your Purchase Mortgage Volume

  Sunday Jul 6 | via CreditUnions.com 

  The Mortgage Bankers Association reports that purchase mortgage applications accounted for 63 percent of mortgage application activity for the week ending June 27, 2008.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home Listing, Real Estate, Home Buying

• Winning a chance to buy

  May 30, 2008 | via The Baltimore Sun 

  Leslie Spencer and Jennie Moser, both 26, were too busy with their teaching duties to attend the Howard County housing event that awarded each the right to buy a new, discounted two-bedroom condominium in ...

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  Related Topix: Howard County, MD, Housing, Columbia, MD, Ellicott City, MD, Elkridge, MD

• Newsmakers

  May 29, 2008 | via The View 

  STTAR Center, in Columbia, has announced that Katie Cogan and Ray Heim have been appointed as therapists to the clinical department of the center.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Howard County, MD, Ellicott City, MD

Regional Headlines

• Frederick County wants to tackle vacant homes, shaggy lawns

  Wednesday | via WTOP 

  Frederick County might step in to help alleviate the housing crisis. Next week, the Frederick County Commissioners plan to discuss a new law to prevent overgrown lawns.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Maryland

• Foreclosure rules take effect Wednesday

  Tuesday | via Daily Record 

  New foreclosure-procedure rules go into effect Wednesday that require lenders to provide direct notice to delinquent homeowners before taking possession of and selling their homes.

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

• Foreclosure in court

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via The Baltimore Sun 

  Maryland's highest court will convene today for a hearing on changes to foreclosure rules that would conform with new legislation that gives homeowners more notification and a longer waiting period before their ... 11 comments

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

• The Daily Dose: Monday

  Monday Jul 21 | via SNL Financial 

  Mapletree Logistics Trust Management Ltd., manager of Mapletree Logistics Trust, announced that the company's total amount distributable for the quarter was S$22.6 million, an increase of 28.2% from S$17.7 ...

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  Related Topix: World News, United Arab Emirates, Middle East, Maryland, Real Estate

• An economic prescription

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Baltimore Sun 

  Reading recent headlines, it might be easy to conclude that the economy is in a death spiral. 21 comments

  Related Topix: Maryland Government, Maryland, Weather, Housing, Opinion

National Headlines

• Existing Home Sales Drop Again

  12 min ago | via On Wall Street 

  June proved to be a pretty hot month, but not in the housing market. The latest figure from the National Association of Realtors shows that existing home sales in June fell, as did the median price of a home.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Real Estate, Housing

• Stock market outlook mixed

  12 min ago | via The Toronto Star 

  Overseas stock markets were gloomy but Wall Street index futures pointed to a modest recovery Friday from the previous session's sharp losses.

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  Related Topix: Housing, New Brunswick, Canada, Canada, Woodstock Area, NB, Juniper, NB, York (Toronto, ON), Ontario, Toronto, ON

• John Edwards in town

  13 min ago | via Off the Kuff 

  Former Senator and Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards was in town this week to promote his anti-poverty agenda.

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  Related Topix: North Carolina, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, John Edwards, 2008 Presidential Election

• U.S. 2Q foreclosure filings more than double 8:28 Am CT

  14 min ago | via Denton Record-Chronicle 

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

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  Related Topix: Irvine, CA, Housing, Foreclosures, Stockton, CA, Stockton Metro

• Federal Bill Will Provide Incentive To 2nd Lienholders To Allow Refinance

  14 min ago | via The Real Estate Bloggers 

  While I am still not thrilled with the 300 billion dollar housing bill working it's way through Congress, they did insert some logic into the process.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage