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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

• Your Voice - Banks

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via KOHD 

  The bank was seized last week by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation because of trouble with mortgage lending.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Bend, OR, Sisters, OR

• Default: The view behind the numbers,

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Bend Bulletin 

  Notices of default: Breaking down the numbers for Deschutes County The chart below shows information about loans, including year of origination, linked to a notice of default filed in Deschutes County through ...

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  Related Topix: Deschutes County, OR, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Real estate is shaky ground for NW banks

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Oregonlive.com 

  Construction and development loans come back to haunt Oregon lenders as their stocks plunge amid the national credit crisis : 1 Sunday, July 13, 2008 JEFF MANNING The credit crisis hit home in The Dalles on ...

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  Related Topix: Manning, OR, The Dalles, OR, Housing, Bend, OR

• Condos create office boom on south side

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Argus Leader 

  On Sioux Falls' south side, a small surge of office construction is going the way of condominium development.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Sioux Falls Metro, Sioux Falls, SD

• June uptick 'good news, but barely'; Local market faces...

  Friday Jul 11 | via The Bulletin 

  June produced a glimmer of hope for a Bend real estate industry that reached its lowest depths in early 2008, according to a report this week from Bratton Appraisal Group.

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  Related Topix: Oregon, Bend, OR, Housing, Redmond, OR

Regional Headlines

• Foreclosures in the Portland area and central Oregon top 2002's dot-com drop

  Thursday Jul 17 | via The Oregonian 

  Mortgage defaults in the Portland area and central Oregon rose 97 percent in the first half of 2008, compared with a year ago.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Clackamas, OR, Portland, OR, Oregon, Foreclosures

• 'Green, Green' Redux

  Sep 17, 2007 | via Blogging Real Estate 

  Inside, around and through the Portland Metro area. Monday, September 17, 2007 'Green, Green' Redux Back in March I wrote this about the then new 'green' search filter on the MLS.

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• Don't Panic

  Apr 24, 2007 | via Blogging Real Estate 

  Tuesday, April 24, 2007 DON'T PANIC! Any time I can invoke Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebrox and Marvin the Seriously Depressed Android, I do.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Oregon

• Oregon Inheritance Tax

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Associated Content 

  Oregon is one of the states that charge an inheritance tax. This is a tax on the heirs or beneficiaries of property transfers from an estate.

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  Related Topix: Oregon Government, Oregon, Mortgage, Home

• Big Wine Tourism Festival Happens On Oregon Coast in May

  Monday Jul 7 | via Beach Connection 

  It's all about la dolce vita in May in the north Oregon coast resort town of Seaside.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Lorane, OR, Arch Cape, OR, Downtown (Portland, OR), Oregon, Depoe Bay, OR

National Headlines

• Democratic challenger trails Biggert in funds

  7 min ago | via Lincoln-Way Sun 

  Democrat Scott Harper pushed his second-quarter fundraising above that of his opponent Judy Biggert by loaning himself $50,000. Not counting the loan, the 46-year-old Oxford student received $228,192 in ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Illinois, Will County, IL

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  7 min ago | via The Topeka Capital-Journal 

  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

• Clarkstown offering new incentives to retain volunteers

  4 hrs ago | via Journal News 

  Clarkstown is offering all emergency service volunteers in the town discounted passes to the popular mini-golf course at Germonds Park.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Nanuet, NY

• Official's son got DSS broker fees, some while working for county

  4 hrs ago | via Journal News 

  MOUNT VERNON - A real estate company run by the son of city marshal and former Democratic boss Serapher Conn-Halevi collected $162,000 in private-vendor fees from the Westchester County Department of Social ...

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  Related Topix: Westchester County, NY, New York Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Governor needs to work with Pelosi to save Medi-Cal

  11 min ago | via San Jose Mercury News 

  If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to save health care coverage for poor and disabled Californians, he should get House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the phone - and soon.

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  Related Topix: Elderly, Family, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Opinion