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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

Local Headlines

• People lined up to get mortgage help

  Yesterday | via ABC7 - KGO-TV 

  Dozens of desperate people, trapped in subprime mortgages, waited in line to find a way to keep their homes.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Antioch, CA, Foreclosures, Contra Costa County, CA

• Bay Area home prices drop

  Friday | via Pleasant Hill Record 

  Bay Area home prices continued to spiral downward in June due to a combination of sellers settling for less, more aggressively-priced foreclosures and sales activity increasing in less-expensive inland areas.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Housing, Stockton, CA, Stockton Metro, Contra Costa County, CA, San Francisco County, CA

• Housing crisis hits East Contra Costa County tax rolls the hardest

  Friday | via East Bay Business Times 

  Contra Costa County and the cities of Antioch, Brentwood and Oakley will take what could be the region's biggest tax hit from declining property values.

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  Related Topix: Antioch, CA, Oakley, CA, Contra Costa County, CA, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures

• West Nile Virus spraying started in Antioch and comes 2 months earlier than last year.

  Thursday Jul 17 | via KGO 

  All the foreclosures are causing another problem with not only empty homes, but abandoned pools.

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  Related Topix: Contra Costa County, CA, Foreclosures, Health, West Nile Virus

• Bay Area median home price falls below $500,000

  Monday Jul 14 | via East Bay Business Times 

  The Bay Area median home price slipped to $485,000 in June, the first time in more than four years it was below a half-million dollars, according to figures released Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Contra Costa County, CA, Housing

Regional Headlines

• Cash challenged? Cry uncle

  3 hrs ago | via Chicago Tribune 

  Two little-known federal programs may hold the answer for would-be home buyers who don't have money for a down payment or don't have money left after closing to update their properties.

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  Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Home Buying, Home, California, UC Riverside, University of California System, UC San Diego, Mortgage

• Calif. To Be Hit Hard Among Nation's 1 Million Foreclosures

  18 hrs ago | via NBC Channel 11 

  A forecast released Friday has predicted that 1 million homes will be in foreclosure nationwide by the end of the year. 10 comments

  Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Home Listing

• Inland rents start to level off, report says

  Yesterday | via The Press-Enterprise 

  After coping with years of strong rent growth, Inland Southern California apartment dwellers are getting relief.

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  Related Topix: California, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, Housing, UC Riverside, University of California System, San Bernardino, CA

• Solar-powered homes give builder an edge

  Yesterday | via Lake Elsinore Valley News 

  Challenged with selling new homes in a tough residential real estate market, Woodside Homes has partnered with solar panel giant SunPower Corp., Southern California Edison and the makers of energy-efficient ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Energy, California, Temecula, CA

• No housing bubble in Canada: Flaherty

  Yesterday | via National Post 

  Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty shrugged off housing worries in Canada Wednesday, saying there is no bubble and that the subprime-mortgage woes crippling financial institutions in the United States are ...

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  Related Topix: Commerce (Texas A&M University System), Texas A&M University System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

National Headlines

• Democratic challenger trails Biggert in funds

  5 min ago | via Lincoln-Way Sun 

  Democrat Scott Harper pushed his second-quarter fundraising above that of his opponent Judy Biggert by loaning himself $50,000. Not counting the loan, the 46-year-old Oxford student received $228,192 in ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Illinois, Will County, IL

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  5 min ago | via The Topeka Capital-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, US News, Housing, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Clarkstown offering new incentives to retain volunteers

  4 hrs ago | via Journal News 

  Clarkstown is offering all emergency service volunteers in the town discounted passes to the popular mini-golf course at Germonds Park.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Nanuet, NY

• Official's son got DSS broker fees, some while working for county

  4 hrs ago | via Journal News 

  MOUNT VERNON - A real estate company run by the son of city marshal and former Democratic boss Serapher Conn-Halevi collected $162,000 in private-vendor fees from the Westchester County Department of Social ...

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  Related Topix: Westchester County, NY, New York Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Governor needs to work with Pelosi to save Medi-Cal

  9 min ago | via San Jose Mercury News 

  If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to save health care coverage for poor and disabled Californians, he should get House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the phone - and soon.

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  Related Topix: Elderly, Family, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Opinion