Bentonville Real Estate

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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

• Home Sales Continue Fall

  Yesterday | via The Morning News 

  Home sales in Benton and Washington counties fell nearly 30 percent in the first half of the year as demand deteriorated amid the lowest consumer confidence reading in 25 years, according to Paul Bynum, ...

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  Related Topix: Washington County, AR, Benton County, AR, Fayetteville, AR, Home Listing, Home, Housing, Real Estate

• Appraisals Up Despite Lagging Home Sales, Prices

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via The Morning News 

  The Benton County assessor's office has issued reappraisal notices indicating higher property values nearly countywide, despite falling home sales and home prices this year, Assessor Bill Moutray said Monday.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home Listing, Home, Benton County, AR, Bella Vista, AR, Real Estate

• Assessor to see if some homes overappraised

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Benton County Daily Record 

  Washington County Assessor Lee Ann Kizzar wants to give a tax break to homeowners in subdivisions affected by slumping home prices.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Washington County, AR, Benton County, AR, Real Estate

• NEWS

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Arkansas News Bureau 

  News Wednesday, Jul 2, 2008 Judge orders Wal-Mart to pay $6.5 Million for labor violations By Kimberly Morrison SPRINGDALE - A Minnesota judge has ordered Bentonville-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

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  Related Topix: Springdale, AR, Foreclosures, Family, Parenting, Fayetteville Metro, North Little Rock, AR

• Crye-Leike Expands Realty Empire

  Sunday Jun 29 | via ArkansasBusiness.com 

  Crye-Leike Realtors of Memphis is still expanding its Arkansas operations after building the largest market share among residential realty firms in the state.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Fayetteville Metro, Bentonville, AR, Siloam Springs, AR

Regional Headlines

• Economy Forces Arkansans to Borrow From 401K Plans

  Sunday Jul 13 | via KATV Little Rock 

  For many Arkansans, these tough economic times are forcing them to take drastic economic measures.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, 401K, Arkansas, Arkansas Government

• Twin Lakes Area real estate market hangs on to value

  Friday Jul 11 | via Baxter Bulletin 

  Homes sales in Baxter and Marion counties declined in May while average prices increased.

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  Related Topix: Mathematics, Science, Hot Springs, AR, Arkansas, Housing, Real Estate

• Help for Foreclosures in Region 8

  Monday Jul 7 | via KAIT-TV Jonesboro 

  In the past two years the number of foreclosures has doubled nationwide and we're starting to see the impact here in Region 8. While there are a lot of people in Region 8 that haven't been touched by the ...

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

• Public tipsters help foil fugitive murder suspect

  Friday Jul 4 | via Log Cabin Democrat 

  The image of fugitive murder suspect Nicholas Sheley's mug shot on her television screen was fresh in Samantha Butler's mind when the mother ventured out to get dinner for the family, warning them to lock the ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Reality TV, Crime TV, Entertainment, Television, Arkansas

• Bush to Visit Arkansas to Talk Housing, Raise GOP Cash

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via ArkansasBusiness.com 

  A staff member at a housing-counseling program where President Bush planned to talk with clients says increases in fuel and food prices have put many Arkansans in a budget squeeze.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Arkansas, Little Rock Metro, North Little Rock, AR, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Faith, trust in God is good for community

  7 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

  3 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

  9 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