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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

• September

  Sep 1, 2007 | via Squaring the Boston Globe 

  This morning the Boston Globe carried a front page story by Kimberly Blalnton about rising interest rates on variable rate mortgages .

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  Related Topix: Brighton, MA, University of Massachusetts System, Blog News, Home Listing, Home, Boston, MA, Mortgage

• Mass. Home Prices Take Nose Dive

  May 27, 2008 | via TheBostonChannel 

  As home prices continue to fall sharply in Massachusetts, the decline in the number of homes sold is easing, according to a new report.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home Listing, Home, Real Estate

• Dacia Street on board as next Hub fixer-upper

  May 10, 2008 | via Boston Herald 

  M ayor Thomas M. Menino 's administration is tracking foreclosures across the city and this week will deploy blight-fighting city workers to a Dorchester neighborhood as part of an innovative campaign to rescue ...

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  Related Topix: Suffolk County, MA, Dorchester, MA, Foreclosures, Boston, MA

• Hiawatha Bray discusses online backup options

  May 1, 2008 | via Boston Globe 

  Politics - Student Video Foreclosures Interest Rates Local News Lifestyle Local Music Videos Mitt Romney Mortgage Rates Energy Prices New England A&E Odds and Ends [ description ] The Hull Board of Selectmen ...

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• Facing eviction, Dorchester tenants get breathing room

  Apr 15, 2008 | via Boston Herald 

  C ity officials announced last night that a tenant eviction scheduled for this morning at a foreclosed Dorchester property has been called off indefinitely, giving relief to nervous renters there.

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  Related Topix: Suffolk County, MA, Boston, MA, Foreclosures, Jamaica-Plain, MA

Regional Headlines

• U.S. foreclosures surge in June

  Yesterday | via Providence Business News 

  The number of foreclosure actions reported statewide increased last month in Rhode Island but fell slightly in Massachusetts compared with May, as the situation nationwide worsened sharply.

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  Related Topix: Massachusetts, Foreclosures

• Mass. woman kills self before home foreclosure: police

  Wednesday | via Slam Sports 

  A 53-year-old wife and mother fatally shot herself shortly after faxing a letter to her mortgage company saying that by the time they foreclosed on her house that day, she would be dead.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Personal Finance, Mortgage, Winter Sports, Curling

• Pond View auction postponed

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA 

  A foreclosure auction of the last, unbuilt piece of Pond View Village - aimed at giving the chief lender a saleable title free of more than $1.5 million owed to contractors for the state and defaulting ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Massachusetts

• Foreclosures continue to climb in Massachusetts

  Monday Jul 21 | via Boston Business Journal 

  New Massachusetts residential foreclosures reached a temporary lull in June because of new regulations forcing a 90-day waiting period.

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• Mass. foreclosures in holding pattern

  Monday Jul 21 | via The Boston Globe 

  Massachusetts foreclosure filings dropped 85 percent in June from a year ago, largely because of a recent change in foreclosure regulations, said ForeclosuresMass.com, a Framingham-based provider of ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  2 min ago | via WSJV-TV South Bend 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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

• Two more U.S. banks fail

  2 min ago | via John Dvorak 

  Federal regulators have closed two small Western banks, bringing to seven the number of U.S. banks that have failed this year.

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  Related Topix: Scottsdale, AZ, Financial Services, Foreclosures, Housing, Home, Mortgage

• Housing Stimulus Package to Stabilize Neighborhoods, Attract New Capital to Communities: LISC

  2 min ago | via The South Mississippi Sun Herald 

  The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 will help stabilize disinvested neighborhoods, offer relief to families stung by the foreclosure crisis and attract new capital to affordable housing developments ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• Apartment Industry Commends Congress For Learning From Past Mistakes...

  3 min ago | via The South Mississippi Sun Herald 

  The National Multi Housing Council /National Apartment Association joint legislative program issued the following statement by NMHC/NAA Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Jim Arbury concerning the ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• How they voted: Senate roll call on housing bill

  3 min ago | via The Oregonian 

  The 72-13 roll call Saturday by which the Senate passed a bill that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to prevent mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from failing.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News