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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

• First Financial Bank Breaks Ground On New Decatur

  Feb 11, 2008 | via Huliq.com 

  First Financial Bank , N.A., a subsidiary of First Financial Bankshares, Inc. , announced that it will relocate its branch in Decatur, Texas, to a new office being built at the northeast corner of Hale Avenue ...

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  Related Topix: Wise County, TX, Texas, Decatur, TX, Home, Mortgage, First Financial Bankshares, Banking, Financial Services, Southlake, TX

• Market Conditions: Wise County, Texas

  Feb 5, 2008 | via Realty Times 

  Tana Fedric reports that Wise County and the rest of North Texas are growing nicely, with plenty of new home construction and subdivisions being developed.

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  Related Topix: Wise County, TX, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• Gang behind Dallas-Fort Worth home invasions built empire on force, strategy

  14 hrs ago | via Quick 

  They were the Renaissance men of crime, a mixture of white-collar cunning and blue-collar ruthless violence.

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  Related Topix: Fort Worth, TX, Rockwall, TX, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Texas, Denton, TX, Home, Mortgage

• Schnurman: North Texas housing market is still troubled

  18 hrs ago | via Fort Worth Star-Telegram 

  We averted one crisis last week, after the government pledged to keep the mortgage money flowing at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Dallas (University of Texas System), Dallas Metro, University of Texas System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Steps to ease housing crisis

  Yesterday | via Houston Community Newspapers Online 

  The housing crisis is eroding the confidence of our nation's homeowners, financial institutions, and investors at an accelerating rate.

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

• Local banking experts say Texas banks are stable

  Yesterday | via News 8 Austin 

  For Banker Bill Lemens, regular check-ups from customers came following the recent failure of California-based IndyMac bank.

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  Related Topix: Texas, Mortgage, Home

• Baylor University Study Shows Depressed Housing Market Demands Change in Lead Generation Techniques

  Friday | via Earth Times 

  WACO, Texas, July 18 Baylor-housing-study WACO, Texas , /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A down housing market calls on real estate agents to change their tactics, according to Dr.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Texas, Marketing, Baylor University, Real Estate

National Headlines

• Many Ada County property owners get a break

  2 min ago | via Fort Mill Times 

  More than 1,000 property owners in southwestern Idaho's highly populated Ada County asked for a reduction in assessed property value in an attempt to lower their property taxes.

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  Related Topix: Ada County, ID, Real Estate

• Woes of U.S. credit crisis: lack of regulation?

  3 min ago | via The Hindu 

  "Issuers should only launch products which are easy to understand and easy to measure risk" The developments in the U.S. sub-prime markets or housing mortgage markets have brought to the fore several issues ...

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  Related Topix: Burbank, CA, Chicago (University of Illinois System), University of Illinois System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• One year of the global financial crisis

  3 min ago | via The Hindu 

  It is a little over a year since the U.S. financial crisis became a global issue.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Banks sound but economy to take time: Paulson

  6 min ago | via Portland Tribune 

  The U.S. economy needs months to recover from its slowdown, but the banking system remains sound despite a home mortgage crisis that could cause more problems, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US News

• Paulson braces public for months of tough times

  6 min ago | via The Post-Star 

  Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sought to reassure an anxious public Sunday that the banking system is sound, while also bracing people for more troubled times ahead.

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