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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

• Financial crunch hitting seniors

  26 min ago | via Columbus Dispatch 

  Janet and Benjamin Thompson found themselves in the midst of a financial nightmare: an adjustable-rate mortgage about to go up for the second time, credit-card debt and rising medical expenses.

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  Related Topix: Baltimore, OH, Ohio University, Health, AARP, Home, Mortgage

• Home sales, prices down compared to '07

  Yesterday | via The Advocate 

  NEWARK -- The Licking County Board of Realtors has reported a 19 percent decrease in homes sold through the first six months of the year, compared to a year ago.

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  Related Topix: Newark, OH, Housing, Real Estate, Licking County, OH

• Foreclosure crisis at its peak?

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Central Ohio 

  The federal government's decision to save the nation's two biggest mortgage companies from financial failure prevents the "unthinkable" but doesn't solve the mortgage crisis, a local expert said.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Licking County, OH

• Has foreclosure crisis hit its peak? Local experts aren't sure

  Monday Jul 14 | via The Advocate 

  NEWARK - The federal government's decision to save the nation's two biggest mortgage companies from financial failure prevents the "unthinkable" but doesn't solve the mortgage crisis, a local expert said.

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  Related Topix: Newark, OH, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Licking County, OH

• 'Save the Dream' can help save a house

  Monday Jul 7 | via Newark Advocate 

  "Save the Dream" is a unique partnership -- one of a kind nationally -- between the Ohio Supreme Court, Gov.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Foreclosures, Opinion

Regional Headlines

• Ohio Department of Commerce warns Ohioans to be on guard against advance fee loan advertisements

  Yesterday | via LancasterEagleGazette 

  COLUMBUS - The Ohio Department of Commerce's Division of Financial Institutions is warning Ohioans to be on guard against newspaper advertisements that promote the availability of loans but fail to identify the ...

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Institutions, Financial Services, Ohio, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Job losses rise in June

  Jun 19, 2008 | via Columbus Dispatch 

  You need to look back to 1981 to find two months in which Ohio's jobless rate rose as much as it did in May and June.

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  Related Topix: University of Illinois System, Springfield (University of Illinois System), Ohio, US News, Sherrod Brown, US Senate, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Sherrod Brown, Ohio Government, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Making Ohio's Economy Grow

  Friday | via The Intelligencer 

  Like most other states, Ohio has taken its share of battering as the nation's economy struggles with challenges ranging from high gasoline prices to the "subprime mortgage crisis." Here in the Ohio Valley, ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Ohio, Ohio Government, US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat

• Feeling the Pinch -- Getting through a tough economy

  Friday | via WTOL-TV Toledo 

  Your job and retirement From finding and landing a job to recession-proofing your current job.

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

• Post a comment

  Thursday Jul 17 | via The Plain Dealer 

  After a fairly good week for banks, eyes will turn next week to the financial results of Northeast Ohio's big banks, which have gained national attention for their mortgage-induced pain.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Ohio, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Huntington Bancshares, National City Corporation

National Headlines

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  2 min ago | via Quamnet 

  "This is a challenging time for families across our nation," Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, Housing, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Property cools in capital with glum economy

  4 min ago | via Viet Nam News 

  Certain sectors of the Ha Noi real estate markets have cooled over the past few months as a result of the global economic slowdown, domestic inflation and limited liquidity on the market driven by high interest ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Ha Tay, Vietnam, World News, Ha Noi, Vietnam, Vietnam

• Real estate newsmakers

  3 hrs ago | via News Press 

  Originally from Long Island, N.Y., Brownyard relocated to Houston, Texas, where she was in the insurance business.

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  Related Topix: Northeastern University, Housing, Cape Coral, FL, Sanibel, FL, Morris (University of Minnesota System)

• What to do in a time of foreclosures

  3 hrs ago | via Lansing State Journal 

  'If there's ever a time to buy, it's certainly now because the prices are so low,' said David Whitcomb, broker and owner of Whitcomb Realty in Lansing.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Lansing, MI, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ingham County, MI

• Foreclosures affect communities

  3 hrs ago | via Lansing State Journal 

  The foreclosure crisis affects more than just individual homeowners. It has an impact on entire neighborhoods and communities.

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  Related Topix: Lansing, MI, Lansing Metro, Foreclosures