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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

Regional Headlines

• Planning for the future

  Thursday Jul 10 | via The Daily Press 

  Senior citizens on fixed incomes aren't going to be surprised by the results of a report released this week that shows it is increasingly difficult to make ends meet.

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  Related Topix: Bayfield, WI, Ashland, WI, Wisconsin, Social Security, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Opinion

• Buyers lose recourse in frauds

  Sunday Jul 6 | via Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal 

  Home buyers who believe a seller has lied to them cannot sue for fraud to recover damages, a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court said Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Wisconsin, Real Estate, Brookfield, WI, Milwaukee Metro, Milwaukee Metro

• Kohl proposal aimed at foreclosure rescue scams

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal 

  Wisconsinites at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure could receive additional protections under a measure authored by Sen.

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

• School districts misled on risks of investments, lawyer says

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 

  Wisconsin school districts that put millions of borrowed dollars into complex investments to help pay employee retirement benefits were misled about the risks of the undertaking, an attorney hired by the ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Retirement, Education Etc., Wisconsin, West Allis, WI

• Wisconsin Supreme Court Applies Economic Loss Doctrine to Bar Fraud...

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via ContractsProf Blog 

  In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin held that the economic loss doctrine barred a buyer's claims for intentional misrepresentation in connection with a residential real estate purchase.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Wisconsin Government, Wisconsin, Home, Home Selling

National Headlines

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  6 min ago | via Rapid City 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, Housing, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Cobb County

  7 min ago | via Baker County Standard 

  Looking for homes in Cobb County ? Carol Moson, CRS with RE/MAX greater Atlanta can provide you access to every available listing.

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  Related Topix: Cobb County, GA, Atlanta Metro, Atlanta, GA, Douglasville, GA, Foreclosures

• How to Get a Mortgage in Today's Market

  8 min ago | via Tideland News 

  Whether you're buying your first home or looking for a larger home, now may be the time to act.

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  Related Topix: Credit Card Debt, Personal Finance, Home Buying, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Home Listing

• Buck County

  8 min ago | via Baker County Standard 

  Free Access to the Pennsylvania MLS. Run and save your own searches using our unique mapping tool to find all Homes For Sale in The Bucks County Pennsylvania area.

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  Related Topix: Bucks County, PA, Foreclosures, Bensalem, PA, Philadelphia, PA

• Peter Boutell, Lending a Hand: Today's most critical measure in mortgage lending

  10 min ago | via Santa Cruz Sentinel 

  The "mortgage meltdown," as the press calls it, officially started last August but the beginnings of it were being felt by mid-2006. According to the Implode-O-Meter [ml-implode.com], 266 mortgage lenders have ...

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  Related Topix: University of California System, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Santa Cruz Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Santa Cruz County, CA