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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

• A home is more than a habitat

  Dec 21, 2007 | via The Daily Mining Gazette 

  DMG Writer LAURIUM - Jennifer Tarvis used to own a home in Mohawk, but most recently she was renting in Calumet, so having a brand new home of her own is quite a thrill.

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  Related Topix: Mohawk, MI, Home, Mortgage, Laurium, MI, Calumet, MI

Regional Headlines

• Inflation takes hold in Europe

  7 hrs ago | via Detroit News 

  It took a few months. But the economic woes touched off by soaring oil prices and the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States are finally engulfing Europe.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Banking, Bank of America, Financial Services, Charlotte (University of North Carolina System), University of North Carolina System, Michigan

• University comes to Michigan's rescue

  Thursday | via Holland Sentinel 

  As job losses, foreclosures and other woes continue to batter Michigan, an unlikely savior has emerged from the halls of academia.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Michigan, Michigan Government, Ann Arbor (University of Michigan System)

• Big players in real estate now on the same team

  Thursday | via LivingstonDaily 

  Two of the biggest names in real estate in Livingston County have combined and created a new force in the market.

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  Related Topix: Livingston County, MI, Howell, MI, Real Estate, Brighton, MI, Michigan

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Michigan Storm Victims

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 11 storm-ravaged counties in Michigan and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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

• An unconstitutional amendment

  Sunday Jul 13 | via LivingstonDaily 

  What happens when a constitutional amendment is so complicated that the amendment itself becomes unconstitutional? We might be about to find out.

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Michigan, Michigan Government, Opinion

National Headlines

• Economy needs stability before regulation

  4 min ago | via The Herald 

  Economy needs stability before regulation By David Ignatius WASHINGTON -- Henry Paulson was in shirt sleeves Thursday afternoon in his office at the Treasury Department, tie loose at the collar, feet propped up ...

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

• Freddie Mac files with Us Sec, first step to capital

  6 min ago | via ABS-CBN News 

  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - Freddie Mac won approval from regulators on Friday to sell the stock needed to overcome mounting losses, and the Wall Street Journal said the mortgage finance company may seek $10 billion.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae

• Earnings Outlook: Bank of America heads parade firms aiming to show turnaround

  1 hr ago | via MarketWatch 

  Is it turnaround time for banks? Bank of America Corp. BAC , , ) tops the list of major U.S. financial firms reporting earnings next week, and investors will be looking to see if the nation's second-largest ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Banking, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase , Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

• Rental market not benefitting from mortgage turmoil in Valley

  3 hrs ago | via Atwater Signal 

  Record numbers of Valley families may be losing their homes to foreclosure, but they apparently are not moving into vacant apartments.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Merced County, CA, Foreclosures, Stanislaus County, CA, San Joaquin County, CA

• Welcoming foreclosure

  7 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