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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

• Thieves rob foreclosed homes

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via ABC7 - KGO-TV/DT 

  There is another unfortunate by product of the foreclosure crisis in the Bay Area.

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  Related Topix: Contra Costa County, CA, Foreclosures, Home Listing, Home, Richmond, CA

• Where We Live: Richmond

  Sunday Jun 29 | via SF Gate 

  When Terence Krista and Bang Nguyen set out to buy a home in the Bay Area five years ago, the real estate market was a little like a Wild West hanging judge: There was no mercy shown - with record prices and ...

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Real Estate, Albany, CA, Oakland Metro, Contra Costa County, CA

• Viewpoints: Ron Mullin Plunging home prices a gain for first-time buyers, investors

  Thursday Jun 26 | via Ledger Dispatch 

  I hope that you are not one of those unfortunate homeowners who must sell their house in the current market.

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  Related Topix: Contra Costa County, CA, Housing, Home Buying, Foreclosures

• Plunging Home Sales in the San Francisco Bay Area

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via TheFrontSteps 

  More doom and gloom data for you to ponder. We won't even point out the silver lining to the always dark cloud of real estate reporting, but it's in thererest assured.

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  Related Topix: San Francisco County, CA, San Mateo County, CA, Housing, San Francisco, CA, Contra Costa County, CA

• Housing slump makes divorce more complicated

  Sunday Jun 22 | via Residential Real Estate 

  Steve Lederer, a residential real estate appraiser based in San Ramon, was recently hired by a divorcing Danville couple to appraise their home to determine its value for their divorce settlement.

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  Related Topix: Housing, San Ramon, CA, Contra Costa County, CA

Regional Headlines

• California's fiscal woes largely of its own making

  2 hrs ago | via Los Angeles Times 

  As Californians brace for big reductions in government services, the possibility of tax hikes and a long summer of budget bickering, they may be under the impression that everyone else is slogging through the ...

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

• Californians feel pinch--and pinch pennies

  17 hrs ago | via McClatchy DC 

  Skyrocketing gas prices have collided with layoffs, foreclosures and food costs to change the way we live in everyday ways.

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  Related Topix: California, Foreclosures

• Good food gives chef satisfaction

  Yesterday | via Hattiesburg American 

  Pilgrimages are typically once-in-a-lifetime events. If one is lucky he or she might get to make two or three pilgrimages over the course of their life.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

• Builder incentives: Just marketing, or the real deal?

  22 hrs ago | via KCPQ 

  Most new-home buyers find it hard to resist the lure of builder incentives -- paid closing costs, an allowance for free upgrades at the design center or interest-rate buy-downs. But are they really worth it? ...

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  Related Topix: Marketing, California, Foreclosures, Construction, William Lyon Homes, Home Listing, Home

• Another 'gimmick'

  23 hrs ago | via Fresno Bee 

  Governor's lottery plan gains few defenders. There's not much good news at the moment about the state budget -- it's overdue, as usual; there's no sign of agreement anytime soon; no permanent fix is in sight -- ...

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  Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

National Headlines

• 15.JUN.08 Moratorium Now Coalition to stop

  6 min ago | via The Michigan Citizen 

  Official town hall meeting to demand passage of SB 1206, which will stop all foreclosures in Mmichigan for two years Saturday, June 14, 2-4 pm, UAW Local 7 2600 Conner Avenue, Detroit At the Town Hall Meeting ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Detroit Metro, Detroit Metro, Detroit, MI

• 18.MAY.08 'Improve your neighborhood'

  8 min ago | via The Michigan Citizen 

  Black Family Development Neighborhood Resource Fair Detroit residents will have the opportunity to learn how to form block clubs, prevent home foreclosure, obtain information on criminal record expungement and ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Detroit Metro, Detroit Metro, Detroit, MI, Wayne County, MI

• Trend toward specializations, relationships with clients

  8 min ago | via The Business Ledger 

  Trend toward specializations, relationships with clients As a result of the nation's economic climate, the legal profession is in a state of flux and experts agree that strengthening relationships with clients ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• Washington Report: Nationwide Registration?

  10 min ago | via Realty Times 

  With the Senate poised to pass major housing legislation this week -- even as early as tomorrow -- critics are taking a harder look at some of the bill's lesser-known provisions.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Realty Viewpoint: Discount Broker Leaves Sellers Stranded

  10 min ago | via Realty Times 

  Rumors were flying last week that Iggy's House, a discount broker, is out of business.

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  Related Topix: Burleson, TX, Real Estate