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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

• House hunting in the age of $4 gas

  Jun 21, 2008 | via Boston Globe 

  Gas cost just over $2 a gallon in October 2006 when Derek Benoit bought his condominium in Amesbury in the far northeastern corner of the state.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Home Listing

• In NL County, Mortgages Hard To Come By Amid Continued Slump

  Jun 13, 2008 | via The Day 

  Fewer buyers in regional market as home sales, prices slide further With mortgages hard to come by, Connecticut home prices are feeling the heat.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Litchfield County, CT, Middlesex County, CT, Fairfield County, CT, Mortgage

• Across Merrimack Valley, record number of homes lost to foreclosure

  Jun 11, 2008 | via Lowell Sun 

  LOWELL FEELING MORE THAN ITS SHARE OF PAIN: There were 51 foreclosures in the city last month the highest number for May since 1989. 28 comments

  Related Topix: Lawrence, MA Metro, Housing

• Jumbo loan increase is chance to refinance

  May 17, 2008 | via Lowell Sun 

  Q: When I bought my house last year, I borrowed two mortgage loans. Otherwise, a single loan balance would have been too high, resulting in a dreaded "jumbo loan." Among my two loans: the first loan's rate was ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing, Middlesex County, MA

• Regional Briefs

  May 11, 2008 | via Http 

  Massachusetts home sales and prices fell faster than they have in nearly 20 years during the first quarter of the year, according to The Warren Group and the Massachusetts Association of Realtors.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Worcester County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Housing, Worcester, MA, Massachusetts

Regional Headlines

• U.S. foreclosures surge in June

  23 hrs ago | via Providence Business News 

  The number of foreclosure actions reported statewide increased last month in Rhode Island but fell slightly in Massachusetts compared with May, as the situation nationwide worsened sharply.

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  Related Topix: Massachusetts, Foreclosures

• Mass. woman kills self before home foreclosure: police

  Wednesday | via Slam Sports 

  A 53-year-old wife and mother fatally shot herself shortly after faxing a letter to her mortgage company saying that by the time they foreclosed on her house that day, she would be dead.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Personal Finance, Mortgage, Winter Sports, Curling

• Pond View auction postponed

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA 

  A foreclosure auction of the last, unbuilt piece of Pond View Village - aimed at giving the chief lender a saleable title free of more than $1.5 million owed to contractors for the state and defaulting ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Massachusetts

• Foreclosures continue to climb in Massachusetts

  Monday Jul 21 | via Boston Business Journal 

  New Massachusetts residential foreclosures reached a temporary lull in June because of new regulations forcing a 90-day waiting period.

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• Mass. foreclosures in holding pattern

  Monday Jul 21 | via The Boston Globe 

  Massachusetts foreclosure filings dropped 85 percent in June from a year ago, largely because of a recent change in foreclosure regulations, said ForeclosuresMass.com, a Framingham-based provider of ...

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

National Headlines

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  4 min ago | via WLS 

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

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Aid for returning veterans in housing rescue bill

  5 min ago | via Star Tribune 

  The housing rescue bill Congress passed Saturday includes a provision by Sen. Norm Coleman that would give returning veterans more time to work out mortgage problems upon their return.

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  Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Norm Coleman, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Federal Regulators Close Two More Banks

  5 min ago | via Mix 104.5 KKMY-FM 

  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

• How they voted: Senate roll call on housing bill

  6 min ago | via Newsday.com 

  The 72-13 roll call Saturday by which the Senate passed a bill that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to prevent mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from failing.

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

• House Plants Joys and Benefits for the Indoor Gardener

  8 min ago | via American Chronicle 

  When you walk into a house that is filled with plants, you immediately feel at home.

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