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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

• Indy home sales drop 20% in past year

  Monday Jun 30 | via IndyStar.com 

  Home sales in Central Indiana dropped 20 percent with double-digit declines even in Hamilton and Hendricks counties, according to a new statistical snapshot out today.

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  Related Topix: Central, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Indiana, Housing

• May home sales drop 28% in Indy area

  Jun 13, 2008 | via IndyStar.com 

  Home sales plunged 28 percent in the Indianapolis area in May from the same month a year ago, continuing their 2008 slide.

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  Related Topix: Indianapolis, IN, Indianapolis Metro, Housing, Marion County, IN, Hamilton County, IN

• Housing crash hits nation, glances at Boone

  Jun 6, 2008 | via Boone Today 

  While many Iowans are focusing on coping with the severe weather and gas prices, another issue is affecting the state: the sub-prime and mortgage meltdown.

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  Related Topix: Weather, Foreclosures, Home Buying, Home, Boone, IA, Ogden, IA

• Property transfers

  Mar 7, 2008 | via Winchester Sun 

  Property transfers The following properties were transferred Feb. 4 through 22:- Lot 2, Unit 5A, Lyndale Subdivision, Glenwood and Alva Jones to Linda Horton, love and affection.

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  Related Topix: Winchester, KY, Home, Mortgage

• Learn how to buy and sell a home in Boone - seminars coming soon

  Feb 18, 2008 | via Boone Today 

  Thanks to The Boone Multiple Listing Service and Hunziker Realty Boone residents will have the opportunity to attend, for the first time locally, buyer and seller seminars.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Real Estate, Boone, IA

Regional Headlines

• Leach proves prophetic about mortgage crisis

  5 hrs ago | via Des Moines Register 

  From his office at Harvard, Jim Leach walked me through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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

• East-side residents fight mortgage crisis

  Thursday | via Http 

  Overgrown lawns, broken windows and tell-tale lock boxes are becoming more common sights in east Des Moines, where the number of vacated homes continues to increase as part of the nationwide mortgage crisis.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Iowa, Foreclosures

• Mortgage lending and housing market changes in Iowa

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via KWWL-TV Waterloo 

  For buyers and sellers, national economic and housing trends still apply in Iowa, just on a smaller scale.

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

• Guest column: Free-market focus of GOP slows response to credit crisis

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Des Moines Register 

  Iowa native son Herbert Hoover was, by all accounts, a caring and compassionate individual.

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  Related Topix: Iowa Government, Iowa, Housing

• For Fannie and Freddie, a Feathered Nest

  Monday Jul 14 | via Air America Radio 

  International Herald Tribune By Julie Creswell As the administration of President George W. Bush scrambles to address the sudden decline of the two largest mortgage finance companies in the United States, some ...

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

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

  6 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