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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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• Louisiana

  18 hrs ago | via Town of Vivian, Louisiana 

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• Governor Jindal Signs Bills into Law

  Thursday Jul 3 | via KLFY-TV Lafayette 

  Today, Governor Bobby Jindal announced that he has signed the following bills passed by the legislature into law: HB 10 - Richardson This bill establishes the Mayor's Court of the city of Central.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, Bobby Jindal, Republican, US House of Representatives, Louisiana

• Fannie, Freddie Fail to Relieve Housing Crisis By Shunning Jumbo Mortgages

  Tuesday Jun 24 | via Bloomberg 

  Three months after Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac won the freedom to step up home-loan purchases, the government-chartered mortgage-finance companies are doing what critics in the Federal Reserve and Congress had ...

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  Related Topix: Louisiana, Housing, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

• More

  Friday Jun 20 | via WTOP 

  Australia's competition regulator said Friday it charged Australian business leader Richard Pratt with four counts of providing false or misleading evidence during a price-fixing investigation.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Mortgage, South Korea, Seoul, South Korea, Kyonggi-do, South Korea, World News, Australia, Oceania, Louisiana

• Moving Around

  Thursday Jun 19 | via The Shreveport Times 

  Items for Moving Around should be submitted by noon Monday to shreveportmoney@gannett.com and are run as space is available each Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Louisiana, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Politics, Bobby Jindal

National Headlines

• Beware of reverse mortage scams

  4 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

  7 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