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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

• Many Immigrants Struggling as Construction Jobs Vanish

  Mar 11, 2008 | via Florida Trend 

  Yes, that's then Gov. Lawton Chiles pictured left. In 1990, health care spending in Florida was $2,400 per capita.

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  Related Topix: Volusia County, FL, Housing, Fort Myers, FL, Fort Myers Metro, Levy County, FL, St. Petersburg, FL

Regional Headlines

• House Swaping

  16 hrs ago | via WSVN-TV Miami Beach 

  In the movie the Holiday, two women on opposite sides of the globe meet online and end up swapping homes for vacation.

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  Related Topix: Florida, Real Estate

• Housing woes still stinging banks

  14 hrs ago | via Palm Beach Post 

  The troubled Florida real estate market is continuing to cause major losses for in-state and out-of-state banks, earnings reports showed this week.

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  Related Topix: Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida, Banking, Financial Services, Real Estate, Housing, Florida

• Fitch Rates Florida Forever $156.7MM Rev Bonds 'A+'

  19 hrs ago | via PR-inside.com 

  Fitch has also affirmed the 'A+' rating of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's approximately $2.5 billion outstanding Preservation 2000 and Florida Forever bonds, $200 million of outstanding ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, Florida, Florida Government, Mortgage

• Stats show mortgage delinquencies still rising in S. Florida

  21 hrs ago | via McClatchy DC 

  The number of South Florida homeowners behind on their mortgages nearly doubled in June compared to a year ago, as home prices continued a precipitous decline and interest rates this week reached their highest ...

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

• Florida fourth in foreclosure rate

  Yesterday | via Jacksonville Business Journal 

  Florida again had the fourth highest foreclosure rate in the second quarter and the second highest total of any state, according to data released by RealtyTrac Inc.

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  Related Topix: Florida, Foreclosures, Jacksonville Metro, Fort Lauderdale Metro, Fort Lauderdale, FL

National Headlines

• U.S. Senate to Vote on Housing Bill

  8 min ago | via RedOrbit 

  The U.S. Senate, meeting in a rare weekend session, was poised Saturday to pass a landmark housing bill meant to ease the effects of mortgage crisis.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• U.s. Congress Passes...

  8 min ago | via 102.9 CKDS-FM 

  U.S. Congress passed a housing rescue bill Saturday aimed at sparing 400,000 struggling homeowners from foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, George Bush, US Politics, US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  8 min ago | via WLOS 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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

• Federal Regulators Close Two More Banks

  9 min ago | via Z 106.7 Jackson 

  Federal regulators have closed two banks in the West, saying they were undercapitalized due to the poor performance of home mortgage loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Reno Metro, Reno, NV

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  9 min ago | via Examiner.com 

  Jul 26, 2008 10:03 AM By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, AP Newly built homes are offered for sale at the Brookville & Heirloom development by Lennar, in Valencia, Calif.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home Listing, Home