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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

• For Hays foreclosures, news is good - and bad

  Jun 14, 2008 | via San Marcos Daily Record 

  There's a little bit of good news mixed in with the bad in the monthly report from Foreclosure Listing Service Inc.

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  Related Topix: Hays, TX, Bastrop, TX, Williamson County, TX, Foreclosures, Bell County, TX

• Plano realtor launches fee-based Web site where homeowners can list "for sale by owner"

  Jun 12, 2008 | via Texas Gigs 

  For Sale By Owner Homes was launched by Creekview Realty, a Texas discount flat fee real estate brokerage firm.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Texas, Bryan Metro

• Foreclose

  May 21, 2008 | via San Marcos Daily Record 

  After a disturbing spike last month, the number of Hays County properties scheduled for foreclosure in June have gone down.

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  Related Topix: Hays County, TX, Bastrop County, TX, Hays, TX, Foreclosures, Bell County, TX, Comal County, TX

• Foreclosure rates in Central Texas decrease

  Mar 19, 2008 | via KCEN 

  Updated: Mar 19, 2008 10:20pm Foreclosure rates in Central Texas are down. According to the Foreclosure Listing Service, 141 foreclosures were posted for the month of April in Bell County.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Bell County, TX

• Home foreclosures increasing across Central Texas

  Jan 18, 2008 | via KCEN 

  Updated: Jan 18, 2008 5:38pm The number of foreclosed homes is steadily increasing in Central Texas.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Bell County, TX, Williamson County, TX

Regional Headlines

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

  4 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

  9 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

• Report paints gloomy picture

  15 min ago | via Shropshire Star 

  Ask yourself this question: What is Ludlow best known for? Your answer will probably include a few of the following: Fantastic restaurants, a beautiful castle, glorious countryside, vibrant festivals and a rich ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  16 min ago | via Alaska Journal of Commerce 

  Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance ...

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

• Property cools in capital with glum economy

  19 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

• Why would Fed delay revision of rules?

  24 min ago | via Dispatch.com 

  The Federal Reserve Board has signed off on new rules to help the rising tide of mortgage delinquencies by barring lenders from making loans without proof of a borrower's income and requiring lenders to ensure ...

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

• No slowdown for the downtown

  26 min ago | via Edmonton Sun 

  As executive director of the Downtown Business Association of Edmonton, it's a given Jim Taylor would be revved up about the city's core.

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  Related Topix: University of Houston System, Downtown (University of Houston System), Housing, Arlington (University of Texas System), University of Texas System, Canada, Edmonton, AB, Alberta, Opinion