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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

• Foreclosure filings here soar in June

  Thursday Jul 10 | via The Capital Times 

  Home foreclosure filings in the Madison area jumped 79 percent from May to June, according to figures released Thursday by data firm RealtyTrac.

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  Related Topix: Madison Metro, Madison, WI, Iowa County, WI, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• Planning for the future

  Thursday Jul 10 | via The Daily Press 

  Senior citizens on fixed incomes aren't going to be surprised by the results of a report released this week that shows it is increasingly difficult to make ends meet.

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  Related Topix: Bayfield, WI, Ashland, WI, Wisconsin, Social Security, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Opinion

• Buyers lose recourse in frauds

  Sunday Jul 6 | via Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal 

  Home buyers who believe a seller has lied to them cannot sue for fraud to recover damages, a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court said Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Wisconsin, Real Estate, Brookfield, WI, Milwaukee Metro, Milwaukee Metro

• Kohl proposal aimed at foreclosure rescue scams

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal 

  Wisconsinites at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure could receive additional protections under a measure authored by Sen.

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

• School districts misled on risks of investments, lawyer says

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 

  Wisconsin school districts that put millions of borrowed dollars into complex investments to help pay employee retirement benefits were misled about the risks of the undertaking, an attorney hired by the ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Retirement, Education Etc., Wisconsin, West Allis, WI

• Wisconsin Supreme Court Applies Economic Loss Doctrine to Bar Fraud...

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via ContractsProf Blog 

  In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin held that the economic loss doctrine barred a buyer's claims for intentional misrepresentation in connection with a residential real estate purchase.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Wisconsin Government, Wisconsin, Home, Home Selling

National Headlines

• Economy needs stability before regulation

  4 min ago | via The Herald 

  Economy needs stability before regulation By David Ignatius WASHINGTON -- Henry Paulson was in shirt sleeves Thursday afternoon in his office at the Treasury Department, tie loose at the collar, feet propped up ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Freddie Mac files with Us Sec, first step to capital

  7 min ago | via ABS-CBN News 

  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - Freddie Mac won approval from regulators on Friday to sell the stock needed to overcome mounting losses, and the Wall Street Journal said the mortgage finance company may seek $10 billion.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae

• Earnings Outlook: Bank of America heads parade firms aiming to show turnaround

  1 hr ago | via MarketWatch 

  Is it turnaround time for banks? Bank of America Corp. BAC , , ) tops the list of major U.S. financial firms reporting earnings next week, and investors will be looking to see if the nation's second-largest ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Banking, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase , Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

• Rental market not benefitting from mortgage turmoil in Valley

  3 hrs ago | via Atwater Signal 

  Record numbers of Valley families may be losing their homes to foreclosure, but they apparently are not moving into vacant apartments.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Merced County, CA, Foreclosures, Stanislaus County, CA, San Joaquin County, CA

• Welcoming foreclosure

  8 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