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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

• Existing home sales fall 28 percent in Maine

  Feb 26, 2008 | via Sun-Journal 

  Sales of existing homes fell 28 percent in Maine in January from a year earlier, the Maine Association of Realtors reported Monday.

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

Regional Headlines

• Maine woman shocked to find 8-foot snake in washer

  Thursday | via Earthlink 

  More Maine woman shocked to find 8-foot snake in washer Nuisance wildlife specialist Richard Burton, left, holds an 8-foot long non-venomous reticulated python as wildlife rehabilitator Jen Lewis calls a friend ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Maine, Gorham, ME, Offbeat

• Cutting torch caused fire at Maine boatyard

  Monday Jul 14 | via WBZ-AM Allston 

  The Maine fire marshal's office says a blaze that destroyed a well-known boatyard was caused by sparks from a cutting torch.

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  Related Topix: Maine, Natural Disasters, Maine Government, Wildfire, Fire, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• 'Your Piece of Maine' winners announced; local receives $5,000

  Thursday Jul 10 | via York Weekly 

  The Maine Association of REALTORS announced the winners of the "Your Piece of Maine" YouTube contest at a Portland Sea Dogs pre-game ceremony on June 28 at Hadlock Field in Portland.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Maine, Maine Government, Kennebunk, ME, Holden, ME

• 3 words to solve the problem Solar Thermal Heating put the black

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Cape Cod Today 

  N/AF Fair [ Forecast ] :: Monday, June 30th, 2008 Alberto's Ristorante Exquisite Northern Italian cuisine served in a casually elegant atmosphere.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Science / Technology, Alternative Energy, Home Listing, Maine, Maine Government

• Sunday Morning Breakfast and a Lunch Buffet at the Maine Dish

  Friday Jun 20 | via Village Soup 

  BELFAST : BELFAST, YOU WANT IT, YOU GOT IT!!! SUNDAY MORNING BREAKFAST BUFFET!! OVER 20 ITEMS TO CHOOSE FROM HOT AND COLD! COME ON IN, RELAX AND ENJOY THE BEAUTIFUL VIEW OF THE BAY.

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  Related Topix: Maine, Real Estate

National Headlines

• Faith, trust in God is good for community

  5 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

  7 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