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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

• Habitat group helps Hollands

  Jun 5, 2008 | via York Weekly 

  The Holland children play in their yard - a car repair lot along Alfred's busy Route 4. Their father, Troy, watches diligently as they kick up dust.

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  Related Topix: Alfred, ME, Mortgage, Personal Finance, York County, ME

• Candidates Debate

  May 22, 2008 | via Wiscasset Newspaper 

  Six Democrats sat side by side in the Bath Middle School cafeteria Sunday night, talking about why they disagree with Republicans, and why they also disagree with one another on occasion.

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  Related Topix: Wiscasset, ME, York County, ME, Home, Mortgage

• Ditching Fido

  May 21, 2008 | via The Citizen 

  Dining out was the first thing to go. Then it was renting movies instead of going out to the theater, canceling long-distance vacations, or trading in the sport utility vehicle for more a fuel-efficient car.

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  Related Topix: Arts, Theater, Berwick, ME, Foreclosures

• Waterman new KSB officer

  May 4, 2008 | via York County Coast Star 

  Kennebunk Savings Bank has named Stephanie Waterman a residential lending officer in the Kittery area, a new position for the bank.

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  Related Topix: Kittery, ME, Eliot, ME, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• All real estate is local

  May 1, 2008 | via York Weekly 

  We don't know whether this familiar line preceded or derived from the late Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill's memorable "All politics is local." We are, however, certain that residential real estate ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, York County, ME, Kennebunk, ME, Real Estate, Sanford, ME, Opinion

Regional Headlines

• Maine woman shocked to find 8-foot snake in washer

  Thursday | via Earthlink 

  More Maine woman shocked to find 8-foot snake in washer Nuisance wildlife specialist Richard Burton, left, holds an 8-foot long non-venomous reticulated python as wildlife rehabilitator Jen Lewis calls a friend ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Maine, Gorham, ME, Offbeat

• Cutting torch caused fire at Maine boatyard

  Monday Jul 14 | via WBZ-AM Allston 

  The Maine fire marshal's office says a blaze that destroyed a well-known boatyard was caused by sparks from a cutting torch.

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  Related Topix: Maine, Natural Disasters, Maine Government, Wildfire, Fire, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• 'Your Piece of Maine' winners announced; local receives $5,000

  Thursday Jul 10 | via York Weekly 

  The Maine Association of REALTORS announced the winners of the "Your Piece of Maine" YouTube contest at a Portland Sea Dogs pre-game ceremony on June 28 at Hadlock Field in Portland.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Maine, Maine Government, Kennebunk, ME, Holden, ME

• 3 words to solve the problem Solar Thermal Heating put the black

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Cape Cod Today 

  N/AF Fair [ Forecast ] :: Monday, June 30th, 2008 Alberto's Ristorante Exquisite Northern Italian cuisine served in a casually elegant atmosphere.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Science / Technology, Alternative Energy, Home Listing, Maine, Maine Government

• Sunday Morning Breakfast and a Lunch Buffet at the Maine Dish

  Friday Jun 20 | via Village Soup 

  BELFAST : BELFAST, YOU WANT IT, YOU GOT IT!!! SUNDAY MORNING BREAKFAST BUFFET!! OVER 20 ITEMS TO CHOOSE FROM HOT AND COLD! COME ON IN, RELAX AND ENJOY THE BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF THE BAY.

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  Related Topix: Maine, Real Estate

National Headlines

• Freddie Mac readies its stock plan

  4 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

• 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

• Seven Days, Seven Projects for a Kitchen that Sells

  22 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

• Affordable Bathroom Updates

  23 min ago | via Tideland News 

  With the slowdown in the real estate market, more people are looking for ways to add value to their homes and make them stand out from the rest.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home Listing, Home

• Honor Your Word, or This Banker May Call Mom

  23 min ago | via HendersonvilleNews.com 

  Mary Milton, left, of Trapp, Md., treats herself to complimentary popcorn at Easton Bank and Trust in Easton, Md.

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Home, Mortgage, Easton, MD