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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• National Wachovia job cuts won't affect Athens or surrounding area

  Tuesday | via Athens Banner-Herald 

  Wachovia Corp.'s plans to slash thousands of jobs in the wake of a huge financial loss should not affect employees in the bank's Athens-area branches.

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  Related Topix: Athens, GA, Athens Metro, Home, Mortgage, Banking, Golden West Financial, Financial Services

• Bank announces dividend

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Augusta Chronicle 

  Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:24 a.m. The board of directors of Southeastern Bank Financial Corp., the holding company for Georgia Bank & Trust Company of Augusta and Southern Bank & Trust, today announced that ...

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  Related Topix: Augusta, GA

• Homing tortoise

  Thursday Jun 26 | via Augusta Chronicle Online 

  Banking MORTGAGE LOAN ORIGINATOR SECURITY FEDERAL BANK, is seeking a Mortgage Loan Originator to serve the Augusta Evans, Georgia market.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Evans, GA, Augusta, GA, Marketing, Athens, GA

• In this kind of market, know what to do to sell your house

  Jun 10, 2008 | via Athens Banner-Herald 

  Like any cautious real estate prospector, she carefully examined the appliances.

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  Related Topix: Arnoldsville, GA, Athens, GA, Athens Metro, Home, Home Selling, Real Estate, Home Listing

• Charges in mortgage fraud

  Jun 3, 2008 | via Athens Banner-Herald 

  Story updated at 11:21 PM on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 A Lithonia man has been charged in a complicated mortgage fraud scheme in southeastern Athens-Clarke County that authorities began investigating more than ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Athens, GA, Athens Metro

Regional Headlines

• RealtyTrac: Georgia 8th in Q2 foreclosure rate, metro Atlanta 20th

  Monday Jul 21 | via Atlanta Business Chronicle 

  Georgia improved to the eighth-highest foreclosure rate in the second quarter, while metro Atlanta had the 20th-highest, according to RealtyTrac 's Second Quarter 2008 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report published ...

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  Related Topix: Georgia, Foreclosures

• TV Makeover Home In Foreclosure

  17 hrs ago | via CBS 46 

  Every week the ABC reality show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" gives families the chance of a lifetime to have their home completely redone and paid for by somebody else.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Home Listing, Home, Georgia

• President Bush drops opposition to housing bill

  Wednesday | via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  President Bush dropped his opposition Wednesday to a broad housing package aimed at bolstering the sagging economy, despite his objections to including $3.9 billion for neighborhoods hit hardest by ...

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

• Keep the down payment assistance program

  Tuesday | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Who's to blame for the subprime mortgage crisis sweeping the nation? Wall Street bankers who've overleveraged their books by billions of dollars? Or first-time home buyers who received gifts of a few thousand ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Georgia

• Lesbian candidate advances to Georgia House runoff

  Friday Jul 18 | via Southern Voice 

  Keisha Waites made it to an Aug. 5 runoff after taking second in a crowded field for House District 61 while Kevin Clark lost his bid for state Senate District 2. Keisha Waites is one step closer to making ...

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  Related Topix: East Point, GA, Mortgage, Atlanta Metro, Georgia

National Headlines

• Washington Mutual Bond Risk Rises as Credit-Default Swaps Climb to Record

  3 min ago | via Bloomberg Business News 

  The cost to protect Washington Mutual Inc. bonds from default rose for a third day to a record amid concern that the biggest U.S. savings and loan won't be able to weather the worst housing crisis since the ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Stamford, CT, Stamford Metro, New Haven Metro, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

• Foreclosure Filings More Than Double

  3 min ago | via KNBC Los Angeles Channel 4 

  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, Stockton Metro, Stockton, CA, Housing, Foreclosures

• Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday

  3 min ago | via WAND-TV Decatur 

  The Senate has cleared the last hurdle to passing a massive housing rescue bill.

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

• Michigan ranks 7th in foreclosures

  5 min ago | via MLive.com 

  Michigan ranked seventh in the country in foreclosures during the second quarter of this year, according to data released July 25 by RealtyTrac.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Stockton, CA, Stockton Metro

• More people are out of work than expected this month

  6 min ago | via WBIR-TV Knoxville 

  A domino effect on Wall Street. A down day triggered by dismal earnings posted by Ford, a steep drop in existing home sales, and a spike in jobless claims.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Housing, Ford, Mortgage