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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

• Next Housing Boom: Smaller and Greener

  Friday | via KHGI 

  "How do you inspire a revolution?" It's a question that obsesses Matthew Berman.

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  Related Topix: Greene, NY, York (Pennsylvania State University System), US Energy Systems, Energy, Housing

• Bay Area home prices plunge 27% in last year

  Thursday | via SF Gate 

  Among resold homes, bank-repossessed foreclosures - which usually are discounted - accounted for 28.7 percent of all existing-home sales, up from just 3.5 percent in June 2007.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Solano County, CA, Danville, CA, Marin County, CA

• Tamalpais Bank creates alliance to enter residential mortgage business

  Monday Jul 14 | via East Bay Business Times 

  Tamalpais Bank said Wednesday that it established an alliance with Petaluma-based First California Mortgage Co.

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  Related Topix: Petaluma, CA, San Rafael, CA, Marin County, CA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Office, industrial sales slip in first half

  Monday Jul 14 | via North Bay Business Journal 

  Troubles in national credit markets slackened investment sales of Highway 101 corridor commercial real estate in the first half of 2008 after several strong years.

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  Related Topix: Insurance, Novato, CA, Foreclosures, Sonoma County, CA, Marin County, CA

• Reporter's Notebook: Marin a good place to raise kids - if you can...

  Friday Jul 11 | via Marin Independent Journal 

  Marin County would be the best place in the nation to raise a family, according to Forbes.com, if only more families could live here. 13 comments

  Related Topix: Marin County, CA, Standardized Testing, Education, Housing, Family, Kids

Regional Headlines

• Cash challenged? Cry uncle

  3 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

• Flip that house

  3 min ago | via Ottawa Sun 

  Lay down a small investment on a fixer-upper. Spend a month or two painting, laying down laminate floors, retiling the bathroom, finishing the basement.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Home Listing

• Realtors to give Washoe schools $11,500

  4 min ago | via Reno Gazette-Journal 

  The Reno/Sparks Association of Realtors and the Incline Village Board of Realtors will present Washoe County School District superintendent Paul Dugan with a check for $11,500 for repairs, improvements and ...

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  Related Topix: Sparks, NV, Reno, NV, Reno Metro, Incline-Village, NV, Education Etc., Real Estate

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  4 min ago | via The Mississippi Press 

  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

• Real estate slump brings rise in short sales

  19 min ago | via Las Vegas Review Journal 

  Jo-Anne Guderian of Coldwell Banker Premier Realty says fewer than 30 percent of short sales in her office close escrow.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Home Selling, Housing, Mortgage, Las Vegas, NV, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Report paints gloomy picture

  21 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