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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

• Utah home sales drop almost 11%

  May 3, 2008 | via Deseret News 

  Home sales throughout the state fell almost 11 percent during the first quarter of 2008 compared with the previous quarter, according to a report released Friday by the Utah Association of Realtors.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Utah, Housing, San Juan County, UT, Grand County, UT, Wasatch County, UT

Regional Headlines

• Utah job growth falls below 1%

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Salt Lake Tribune 

  Job losses in the residential real-estate industry continue to take their toll on Utah's economy, pushing employment growth last month below the 1 percent mark for the first time in five years.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home, Home Selling, Foreclosures, Housing, Sundance Film Festival, Utah Government, Utah

• Utah job growth at 5-year low as construction work dips

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Salt Lake Tribune 

  Employment growth in Utah has slowed to a crawl, dipping below the 1 percent mark last month for the first time in five years.

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  Related Topix: Utah Government, Utah, Housing

• Entrepreneurial Spirit Key to Utah Valley's Success, Experts say

  Friday Jul 11 | via Utah Business 

  Slowing commercial and residential real estate markets, sluggish tourism levels and transportation troubles are some of the issues facing Utah Valley, as well as much of the state.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Brigham Young University, Utah

• Bankruptcy in Utah up 42#x25 year-to-date

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Deseret Morning News 

  He sees it every day at work: adults with a bankruptcy in their past needing to re-establish their credit to make a major purchase.

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Credit Card Debt, Utah Government, Utah

• Utah foreclosures up 141#x25

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Deseret Morning News 

  The number of Utah homeowners who received a foreclosure filing in June jumped nearly 141 percent, compared with the same month last year, according to a report released Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Provo, UT, Orem, UT, Utah County, UT, Utah, Sundance Film Festival, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Democratic challenger trails Biggert in funds

  4 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

  4 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

  8 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