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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

• Technology providing tools to help in search for a dream home

  Friday Jul 11 | via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 

  Around-the-clock Internet access, and a wealth of information online, quickens the pace at which consumers decide to buy - whether it's a handbag, vacation or a house.

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  Related Topix: Milwaukee County, WI, Washington County, WI, Real Estate, South Milwaukee, WI

• Courts May Begin Enforcing Truth-in-Lending Act

  Monday Jul 7 | via The Big Picture 

  This story seemed to have slipped by without much comment from anywhere else. There are potentially major ramifications for the mortgage industry, as well as any Housing bailout, depending upon the outcome of ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Banking, Financial Services

• Mortgage Rescission Could Be Class Action Nightmare for U.S. Banks

  Sunday Jul 6 | via Insurance Journal West 

  A lawsuit filed by a Wisconsin couple against their mortgage lender could have major implications for banks should a U.S. appeals court agree that borrowers can cancel their loans en masse when their lenders ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Banking, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Local News In Brief

  May 17, 2008 | via TheSpectrum.com 

  Republican Forum will have luncheon ST. GEORGE - The Dixie Republican Forum will have its luncheon meeting at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday at the Holiday Inn, 850 S. Bluff.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Washington County, UT, St. George, UT

• Main Street banks feel impact of economy, housing slump

  Apr 14, 2008 | via The Business Journal of Milwaukee 

  The Business Journal of Milwaukee - by Rich Kirchen First National Bank of Hartford performed well in 2007 despite the downward spiral of outside economic forces.

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  Related Topix: Wisconsin Dells, WI, Washington County, WI, Milwaukee, WI, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• Planning for the future

  Thursday Jul 10 | via The Daily Press 

  Senior citizens on fixed incomes aren't going to be surprised by the results of a report released this week that shows it is increasingly difficult to make ends meet.

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  Related Topix: Bayfield, WI, Ashland, WI, Wisconsin, Social Security, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Opinion

• Buyers lose recourse in frauds

  Sunday Jul 6 | via Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal 

  Home buyers who believe a seller has lied to them cannot sue for fraud to recover damages, a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court said Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Wisconsin, Real Estate, Brookfield, WI, Milwaukee Metro, Milwaukee Metro

• Kohl proposal aimed at foreclosure rescue scams

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal 

  Wisconsinites at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure could receive additional protections under a measure authored by Sen.

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

• School districts misled on risks of investments, lawyer says

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 

  Wisconsin school districts that put millions of borrowed dollars into complex investments to help pay employee retirement benefits were misled about the risks of the undertaking, an attorney hired by the ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Retirement, Education Etc., Wisconsin, West Allis, WI

• Wisconsin Supreme Court Applies Economic Loss Doctrine to Bar Fraud...

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via ContractsProf Blog 

  In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin held that the economic loss doctrine barred a buyer's claims for intentional misrepresentation in connection with a residential real estate purchase.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Wisconsin Government, Wisconsin, Home, Home Selling

National Headlines

• Faith, trust in God is good for community

  8 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

  4 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

  10 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

  28 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