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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Jun 19, 2008 | 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

• Hesperia foreclosures triple last year's number

  15 hrs ago | via Hesperia Star 

  A record number of California homeowners defaulted on their mortgages last quarter, more than three times as many Hesperians were in foreclosure compared to last year at the same time.

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  Related Topix: Hesperia, CA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, San Bernardino County, CA

• Candidates' silence speaks volumes

  Wednesday | via San Bernardino County Sun 

  You're running for the highest office in the land, the economy is in the toilet and your plan to save it is ... what? The silence from John McCain and Barack Obama on the economy is as disturbing as it is ...

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  Related Topix: US Politics, John McCain, US News, Barack Obama, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Opinion

• Increase in home mortgage defaults slows

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via The Press-Enterprise 

  Home mortgage defaults in California increased less dramatically in the second quarter of 2008 than in the first quarter and Riverside County even saw a quarter-to-quarter leveling off in default notices, the ...

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  Related Topix: Riverside County, CA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, San Bernardino County, CA

• Two more arrests in San Bernadino fraud case

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Mortgage Fraud News 

  In the following press release The San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office announced it has filed charges against Gregory Craig Sandoval , 25, and Souha Nabil Traboulsi , 40, both of Los Angeles , for ...

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  Related Topix: San Bernardino County, CA, Mortgage, Home, Valley Village, CA

• : Foreclosures triple in SB County

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via San Bernardino County Sun 

  A report released today said home foreclosures soared in the second quarter of this year, tripling in San Bernardino County and more than doubling in Riverside County when compared to the same period in 2007.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, San Bernardino County, CA, Riverside County, CA, Mortgage, Home

Regional Headlines

• State home sales up 18%

  3 hrs ago | via LA Daily News 

  Home sales across California jumped nearly 18 percent during June compared with a year earlier as discounted foreclosures lured buyers back into the real-estate market, a trade association said Friday.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles Metro, Los Angeles Metro, Housing, California, Real Estate, Foreclosures

• Median home prices fall by 6.1% in county

  3 hrs ago | via Pasadena Star-News 

  Los Angeles County's median home price fell 6.1 percent last month to $396,560 and was off a record 32.3 percent from a year earlier, the California Association of Realtors reported Friday.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles County, CA, Real Estate, California, San Gabriel, CA, Hacienda Heights, CA

• L.A. home sales up 1.7% in June

  15 hrs ago | via Daily Breeze 

  Home sales rose 1.7 percent in the Los Angeles area in June, compared with the same period a year ago, while the median home price fell 32.3 percent to $396,560, according to figures released today.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Los Angeles Metro, Los Angeles Metro, Housing, California, Orange County Metro

• East West impacted by housing crisis

  17 hrs ago | via San Gabriel Valley Tribune 

  East West Bancorp, Inc. on Friday reported a $25.9 million loss for the second quarter, the bank's first shortfall since 1981.

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  Related Topix: California, Home, Mortgage, Financial Services, IndyMac Bancorp, Banking, East West Bancorp

• Second quarter foreclosures up 121%

  22 hrs ago | via San Jose Business Journal 

  Foreclosure filings were reported on 739,714 U.S. properties during the second quarter, nearly 14 percent up from the previous quarter and 121 percent higher than the year-ago quarter, according to a report ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, California, Stockton Metro, San Bernardino, CA, Bakersfield Metro, Bakersfield, CA

National Headlines

• U.S. Senate to Vote on Housing Bill

  17 min ago | via RedOrbit 

  The U.S. Senate, meeting in a rare weekend session, was poised Saturday to pass a landmark housing bill meant to ease the effects of mortgage crisis.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• U.s. Congress Passes...

  17 min ago | via 102.9 CKDS-FM 

  U.S. Congress passed a housing rescue bill Saturday aimed at sparing 400,000 struggling homeowners from foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, George Bush, US Politics, US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  17 min ago | via WLOS 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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

• Federal Regulators Close Two More Banks

  18 min ago | via Z 106.7 Jackson 

  Federal regulators have closed two banks in the West, saying they were undercapitalized due to the poor performance of home mortgage loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Reno Metro, Reno, NV

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  18 min ago | via Examiner.com 

  Jul 26, 2008 10:03 AM By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, AP Newly built homes are offered for sale at the Brookville & Heirloom development by Lennar, in Valencia, Calif.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home Listing, Home