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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

Regional Headlines

• Bond insurer MBIA's losses expected to grow

  20 hrs ago | via The Morning Call 

  Q: I am very concerned about my shares of MBIA Inc. What are the prospects? V.R., via the Internet A: The world's largest bond insurer has taken charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Minnesota, Financial Markets

• MBIA Inc. Is Battered By Competition, Subprime Issues

  Friday | via Hartford Courant 

  I am very concerned about my shares of MBIA Inc. What are the prospects? - V.R. , via the Internet T he world's largest bond insurer has taken charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Minnesota, Financial Markets

• Good news for health care

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via St. Paul Pioneer Press 

  We break from regularly scheduled programming for this special report: Good news! Competition is improving health care in Minnesota! We refer to the latest report from MN Community Measurement, a nonprofit ... 6 comments

  Related Topix: Housing, Minnesota, Anoka, MN, Opinion

• Builders: Regulations keep suburban home prices unreasonably high

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via St. Paul Pioneer Press 

  Peter Orbidan, the owner of a carpentry company, works on a house in Fieldstone homes, Lakeville, on Thursday, June 12, 2008. 86 comments

  Related Topix: Housing, Minnesota Government, Minnesota

• Number of abandoned pets on the rise

  Monday Jun 30 | via KAAL-TV Austin 

  Whether it's high gas prices or foreclosures, the economy is taking a toll on Minnesotans.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Minnesota

National Headlines

• Buffalo Ranks High in Big Cities with Low Rent

  18 min ago | via Br city 

  Renting homes and apartments is becoming more popular nationwide due to stricter rules in obtaining a mortgage.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Online Newspaper

  20 min ago | via The Bangladesh Observer 

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• Most folks in Otisville understand change

  25 min ago | via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record 

  We are working stiffs who wonder how on earth we will pay for gas, mortgages and heat.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Orange County, NY, Otisville, NY, Middletown, NY

• Housing market in Welsh town shows wider woes

  27 min ago | via Arizona Daily Star 

  During a bustling lunch hour in this Welsh commuter town, 25-year-old Richard Williams is one of the few who pause to look at properties for sale in a real-estate agent's window - and he isn't buying.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Las Vegas, NV, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Chesapeake makes four major land buys in area

  34 min ago | via Fort Worth Star-Telegram 

  Fort Worth-based Vintage Capital Partners has sold nearly 15 of the 20 acres that it bought along White Settlement Road and Nursery Lane to a Virginia investment firm, which then flipped it to a division of ...

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  Related Topix: Wichita Falls Metro, Wichita Falls, TX, Housing, Dean, TX, Horseshoe Bay, TX