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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

• Bakersfield No. 8 in nation for foreclosures

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Bakersfield Californian 

  The Bakersfield metro area's foreclosure rate is the eighth highest among the nation's largest 230 metropolitan areas, according to a report released today by Irvine-based real estate data firm RealtyTrac.

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  Related Topix: Bakersfield Metro, Bakersfield, CA, Foreclosures, Irvine, CA, Kern County, CA

• Defaults build in rose city

  Monday Jul 7 | via Bakersfield Californian 

  The foreclosed Poplar Pointe development in Wasco has fourteen finished homes sitting empty behind locked gates.

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  Related Topix: Kern County, CA, Irvine, CA, Newport Beach, CA, Foreclosures, Wasco, CA

• Foreclosures surge in first half of year

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Bakersfield Californian 

  Kern County has been inundated by property foreclosures during the first six months of 2008, with totals already surpassing last year's record-breaking numbers by more than 1,000, Kern County Recorder's office ...

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  Related Topix: Kern County, CA, Foreclosures, Personal Finance, Mortgage

• New fee could hurt homebuyers

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Bakersfield Californian 

  An old debate is back in the spotlight, but this time the stakes are higher. Once again, Bakersfield and Kern County want to impose a fee on development to pay for roads.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Kern County, CA, Bakersfield Metro, Bakersfield, CA

• Northeast land foreclosed

  Jun 16, 2008 | via Bakersfield Californian 

  The foreclosed Dunmore Westport site in northeast Bakersfield is one of three troubled projects with ties to a bankrupt Sacramento builder.

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  Related Topix: Bakersfield Metro, Bakersfield, CA, Kern County, CA, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• Inland rents start to level off, report says

  9 hrs ago | 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

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

  11 hrs ago | via KNBC Los Angeles Channel 4 

  A forecast released Friday has predicted that 1 million homes will be in foreclosure nationwide by the end of the year. 2 comments

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

• Solar-powered homes give builder an edge

  12 hrs ago | 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

  12 hrs ago | 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

• Starbucks closures heaviest in California, Florida, Texas

  18 hrs ago | via WNED.org 

  California, Florida and Texas, the U.S. states with the most Starbucks Corp stores, will see the most shuttered as the coffee chain axes more than 600 underperforming outlets in the coming year.

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  Related Topix: Drink, Coffee, Restaurant Management, Starbucks, California, Laguna Beach, CA, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Faith, trust in God is good for community

  4 min ago | via The Leaf Chronicle 

  I'm responding to the article dated June 29, 2008, "Local industry a big deal to Little." First of all, I would like to say in the rise of the real estate market there was one good thing I found when moving to ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Clarksville, TN, Opinion

• Letter: Council decisions

  3 hrs ago | via Atwater Signal 

  Editor: After reading Stuart Rawling's letter of July 11, I would also like to add some of my additional concerns regarding the City Council and its decisions.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Welcoming foreclosure

  1 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

• Freddie Mac readies its stock plan

  7 min ago | via The Herald 

  Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage-finance giant, on Friday took a major step with the Securities and Exchange Commission toward selling billions of dollars of stock.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Securities and Exchange Commission

• Seven Days, Seven Projects for a Kitchen that Sells

  25 min ago | via Tideland News 

  In today's market, selling a home involves much more than posting a "for-sale" sign in the yard.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Construction