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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

• Noriega fails again to block extradition to France

  Jan 9, 2008 | via International Herald Tribune 

  MIAMI : Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega failed again Wednesday to persuade a federal judge to block his extradition to France to face money-laundering charges.

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  Related Topix: Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, US News, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• Recovery takes long-term approach

  19 hrs ago | via The Tribune 

  It's been six weeks since floodwaters inundated Jackson County and much of central and southern Indiana, leaving behind a path of costly destruction and scores of homeless residents.

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  Related Topix: Bartholomew County, IN, Seymour, IN, Indiana, Home, Mortgage

• Group may go to court to halt foreclosure sales

  Monday Jul 14 | via WNDU-TV South Bend 

  A national housing activist group is threatening legal action to force Lake County's sheriff to halt the sale of foreclosed properties. 4 comments

  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Indiana

• Dow wobbles but regains feet

  Friday Jul 11 | via IndyStar.com 

  Fears that the nation could slip into recession and drag down Indiana stirred on Friday after oil prices soared on war worries and a key stock market index reeled over concerns about mortgage giants Fannie Mae ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Ben Bernanke, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Indiana

• Central Indiana home sales remain weak in June

  Friday Jul 11 | via The Indianapolis Star 

  Home sales in the Indianapolis area remained weak in June, falling almost 20 percent over the same month a year ago.

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  Related Topix: Indiana, Indianapolis, IN, Housing, Central, IN, Real Estate, Hendricks County, IN

• Many Indiana mortgage brokers face license loss

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Tribune/Sunday Ledger Tribune 

  More than two-thirds of Indiana's mortgage brokerage companies could lose their licenses under a new state law - causing headaches for some potential homebuyers.

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  Related Topix: Indiana, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Jeffersonville, IN

National Headlines

• Faith, trust in God is good for community

  5 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

  1 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

  7 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

  25 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