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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

• Fidelity buying 2.4% of its stock

  Jun 7, 2008 | via The Times-Tribune 

  Fidelity D&D Bancorp is in the market for its own stock. With stocks of small banks battered for the misdeeds of bigger competitors, the Dunmore-based bank is buying back its own shares and taking them off the ...

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Dunmore, PA, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Lackawanna County sale aims to put properties back on tax rolls

  Jun 3, 2008 | via The Times-Tribune 

  You may win a home with a market value of $106,350 at 1005 Oak St. in Taylor with an offer of just $3,175. At least, that is the starting bid on the property in a county judicial sale of three properties today ...

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  Related Topix: Lackawanna County, PA, Home Listing, Home, Taylor, PA, Mortgage, Carbondale, PA

• Report to be presented on Thursday upbeat

  May 3, 2008 | via Times Leader 

  Without giving away any secrets, Teri Ooms wants you to know that, despite problems nationwide, economic conditions are holding firm in Luzerne and Lackawanna counties.

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  Related Topix: Lackawanna County, PA, Mortgage, Home, Scranton, PA

• New Foreclosure Help

  Apr 16, 2008 | via PAHomepage.com 

  The door has closed on the dream of home ownership for hundreds of people in the Poconos this year.

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  Related Topix: Monroe County, PA, Foreclosures, Marshalls Creek, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Lackawanna County, PA

• Foreclosures Up in Lackawanna County

  Mar 25, 2008 | via WNEP-TV Moosic 

  Foreclosures are up all across the country. At today's sheriff's sale in Lackawanna County dozens of foreclosed properties were auctioned to the highest bidders.

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  Related Topix: Lackawanna County, PA, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Taylor, PA, Dickson City, PA

Regional Headlines

• Senators find Pittsburgh casino is in dire shape

  18 hrs ago | via Luminary 

  State senators asking questions Thursday about the rescue of a financially troubled Pittsburgh casino project by other investors found the situation more complicated and dire than they originally thought.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Mortgage, Home

• Regional economy shows improvement

  Wednesday | via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

  Despite weaknesses in parts of the housing and retail sectors, the economy in the Federal Reserve's Fourth District, which includes Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and parts of Kentucky and West Virginia, improved ...

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Mortgage, Home

• Economic Watchdog, July 21

  Monday Jul 21 | via Optionetics 

  The economy might take a backseat to earnings news this week, but there still are several reports that could impact trading.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Pennsylvania, Financial Markets, Home Selling, Housing

• Dundee Homeowners Choose To Auction House

  Sunday Jul 20 | via KETV 

  Some Omaha homeowners are waiting months to sell their homes, but a family in Dundee intends to sell their in an instant.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Pennsylvania, Home Listing, Home

• State Capitol Roundup for July 18

  Friday Jul 18 | via Tony Phyrillas 

  I thought the Legislature was on its 2-month summer vacation, but it appears some lawmakers are still in Harrisburg.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  1 min ago | via WSJV-TV South Bend 

  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

• Two more U.S. banks fail

  1 min ago | via John Dvorak 

  Federal regulators have closed two small Western banks, bringing to seven the number of U.S. banks that have failed this year.

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  Related Topix: Scottsdale, AZ, Financial Services, Foreclosures, Housing, Home, Mortgage

• Housing Stimulus Package to Stabilize Neighborhoods, Attract New Capital to Communities: LISC

  1 min ago | via The South Mississippi Sun Herald 

  The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 will help stabilize disinvested neighborhoods, offer relief to families stung by the foreclosure crisis and attract new capital to affordable housing developments ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• Apartment Industry Commends Congress For Learning From Past Mistakes...

  1 min ago | via The South Mississippi Sun Herald 

  The National Multi Housing Council /National Apartment Association joint legislative program issued the following statement by NMHC/NAA Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Jim Arbury concerning the ...

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

• How they voted: Senate roll call on housing bill

  1 min ago | via The Oregonian 

  The 72-13 roll call Saturday by which the Senate passed a bill that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to prevent mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from failing.

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