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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

• Home prices sliding, but number of sales rising

  21 hrs ago | via The Modesto Bee 

  Home sales in June continued the trend of recent months, with median prices dropping but the number of sales rising in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.

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  Related Topix: San Joaquin, CA, Merced County, CA, San Joaquin County, CA, Turlock, CA, Real Estate, Home, Mortgage

• Rental market not benefitting from mortgage turmoil in Valley

  Yesterday | via Atwater Signal 

  Record numbers of Valley families may be losing their homes to foreclosure, but they apparently are not moving into vacant apartments.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Merced County, CA, Foreclosures, Stanislaus County, CA, San Joaquin County, CA

• Workshop to help avoid foreclosures

  Yesterday | via RecordNET 

  Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Atwater, and Assemblywoman Cathleen Galgiani, D-Livingston, will join with the group No Homeowner Left Behind to hold a foreclosure prevention workshop from 4 to 9 p.m. Friday in Building ...

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  Related Topix: Atwater, CA, Livingston, CA, Foreclosures, French Camp, CA, Lathrop, CA, San Joaquin County, CA

• Apartments not renting

  Friday | via The Modesto Bee 

  Record numbers of Northern San Joaquin Valley families may be losing their homes to foreclosure, but they apparently are not moving into the region's apartments.

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  Related Topix: Modesto, CA, Foreclosures, Stanislaus County, CA, Merced County, CA, San Joaquin County, CA

• Foreclosures Lead to Late Tax Payments in Merced County

  Thursday | via ABC30.com 

  This year the property tax delinquency rate was up nearly three percent in Merced County.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Merced County, CA

Regional Headlines

• Cash challenged? Cry uncle

  2 hrs ago | via Chicago Tribune 

  Two little-known federal programs may hold the answer for would-be home buyers who don't have money for a down payment or don't have money left after closing to update their properties.

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  Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Home Buying, Home, California, UC Riverside, University of California System, UC San Diego, Mortgage

• Calif. To Be Hit Hard Among Nation's 1 Million Foreclosures

  17 hrs ago | via NBC Channel 11 

  A forecast released Friday has predicted that 1 million homes will be in foreclosure nationwide by the end of the year. 10 comments

  Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Home Listing

• Inland rents start to level off, report says

  Yesterday | via The Press-Enterprise 

  After coping with years of strong rent growth, Inland Southern California apartment dwellers are getting relief.

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  Related Topix: California, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, Housing, UC Riverside, University of California System, San Bernardino, CA

• Solar-powered homes give builder an edge

  Yesterday | via Lake Elsinore Valley News 

  Challenged with selling new homes in a tough residential real estate market, Woodside Homes has partnered with solar panel giant SunPower Corp., Southern California Edison and the makers of energy-efficient ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Energy, California, Temecula, CA

• No housing bubble in Canada: Flaherty

  Yesterday | via National Post 

  Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty shrugged off housing worries in Canada Wednesday, saying there is no bubble and that the subprime-mortgage woes crippling financial institutions in the United States are ...

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  Related Topix: Commerce (Texas A&M University System), Texas A&M University System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

National Headlines

• Angelo's Ashes Burned Us

  3 min ago | via New York Post 

  On July 24, 2007, then-Countrywide Financial CEO Angelo Mozilo jumped onto a conference call announcing the second-quarter results of his company, the largest mortgage provider in the US with a 15 percent ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• More homeowners rent in sagging market

  3 hrs ago | via St. Cloud Times Online 

  MINNEAPOLIS - Sean Kirschner tried for a year to sell his three-bedroom home in Montrose but got only five showings even with a price reduction.

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  Related Topix: Minneapolis Metro, Home, Mortgage

• Power to end crisis in hands of lenders

  3 hrs ago | via Press & Argus 

  Mortgage companies were greedy and made mortgages that should not have been made.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Truth Needed To Stabilize Markets

  3 hrs ago | via Hartford Courant 

  It's not over. Despite mid-week relief for financial stocks, Oppenheimer & Co. analyst Meredith Whitney says the financial markets won't be able to stabilize until there is more truth-telling. Rather than ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ansonia, CT

• Plastic Problems

  3 hrs ago | via Hartford Courant 

  Where will the money come from? Gas and food prices are rising, mortgage interest rates are adjusting higher, loans are harder to find and unemployment is ticking up.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage