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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

Local Headlines

• Read the whole story

  May 18, 2008 | via Galax Gazette 

  The Vaughan Furniture Legacy The company was a prime example of the entrepreneurial spirit that built Galax into a thriving community in the early 1900s.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Woodlawn, VA, Wytheville, VA, Galax, VA, Opinion

Regional Headlines

• Local Commentary

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Falls Church News-Press 

  With the Washington, D.C. region now impacted by one of the highest foreclosure rates in the U.S., questions abound about the future of its prospects for development and economic growth.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Virginia Government, Virginia

• U.S. Senate Candidate Mark Warner Opposes Affordable Homes

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Bubble Meter 

  A new campaign email from former Virginia governor and current U.S. Senate candidate Mark Warner suggests he believes the government has a responsibility to prop up overvalued home prices.

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  Related Topix: Virginia Government, Virginia, Housing

• More public records online; Metro localities remove personal information

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via NBC12 

  Anyone wanting to see public records like land deeds, mortgages and wills from any Virginia locality can now do it online.

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  Related Topix: Virginia, Personal Finance, Mortgage, Virginia Government, Social Security

• D.C. ranks high for increase in mortgage payments

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Washington Examiner 

  Would-be homebuyers are seeing their potential monthly mortgage payments creeping upward even though median home prices are holding steady inside the Beltway and dropping in farther-out areas.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Virginia

• Northern Virginia drags down region's recovery efforts

  Monday Jun 30 | via Washington Business Journal 

  New condominium sales in D.C. and suburban Maryland were up in the second quarter, but contract cancellations in Northern Virginia dragged down the Washington area's overall market.

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  Related Topix: Housing, The Associates, New-Wave, Home, Mortgage, Virginia

National Headlines

• Sister-Owned Welch Builders Thrives Despite Tough Market

  5 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 $$$

  5 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

  10 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

  11 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

  15 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