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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

Regional Headlines

• Down payment aid programs scrutinized

  Sunday Jul 6 | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  Local housing experts say down payment assistance programs aren't the best way to purchase a home and build equity, but they recognize their importance in Mississippi because of residents' low median income.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Home Buying

• Miss. Realtors Required To Disclose Meth Lab Houses

  Saturday Jul 5 | via WAPT.com 

  Mississippi home buyers will soon be able to find out if the house they want to purchase was used as a meth lab.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Real Estate

• Miss., La. To Use Mortgage Licensing System

  Friday Jun 27 | via WAPT 

  Mississippi and Louisiana are among the six states that will start using the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System next Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Mortgage, Home

• Home sales plummet despite lower prices

  Thursday Jun 26 | via The Mississippi Press 

  From January to May, Jackson County homes sold for an average of 20 percent less compared to that same time period last year, local Realtors and Multiple Listing Service data say.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi, Foreclosures, Latimer, MS, Hurley, MS, Big Point, MS, Wade, MS

• Miss. mortgage bust unlikely

  Thursday Jun 26 | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  Mississippi likely will dodge a mortgage bust because it did not benefit from the housing boom of places such as Florida and California, Federal Reserve Bank representatives said.

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  Related Topix: Jackson Metro, Housing, Banking, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Mississippi Government, Mississippi

National Headlines

• Faith, trust in God is good for community

  8 min ago | via The Leaf Chronicle 

  I'm responding to the article dated June 29, 2008, "Local industry a big deal to Little." First of all, I would like to say in the rise of the real estate market there was one good thing I found when moving to ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Clarksville, TN, Opinion

• Letter: Council decisions

  3 hrs ago | via Atwater Signal 

  Editor: After reading Stuart Rawling's letter of July 11, I would also like to add some of my additional concerns regarding the City Council and its decisions.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Welcoming foreclosure

  4 min ago | via Dispatch.com 

  Ralph Stover has good credit and a steady job. But he took out a risky interest-only first mortgage and a second mortgage to buy a new 1,900-square-foot condominium in 2003 with no money down.

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

• Freddie Mac readies its stock plan

  10 min ago | via The Herald 

  Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage-finance giant, on Friday took a major step with the Securities and Exchange Commission toward selling billions of dollars of stock.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Securities and Exchange Commission

• Seven Days, Seven Projects for a Kitchen that Sells

  28 min ago | via Tideland News 

  In today's market, selling a home involves much more than posting a "for-sale" sign in the yard.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Construction