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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Jun 19, 2008 | 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

• Some To Save, Others To Pay Under New Flood MapsLoading...

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Insurance News Net 

  The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va. Source: Virginian-Pilot, The Wordcount: 725 Jul.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Chesapeake, VA, Norfolk, VA

• Links: Flood maps for the five cites

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via PilotOnline.com 

  Maps for the five cites Suffolk: FEMA is in the process of revising flood maps. Suffolk flood map Chesapeake: Emergency Management Agency has made no changes to the city's flood maps.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, FEMA, US News

• Tanglewood aims for new start

  Saturday Jul 5 | via The Daily Advance 

  The sources said Tanglewood Development encountered cash-flow problems in February when lenders sued the company, claiming it had defaulted on loans totalling $17.6 million.

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  Related Topix: Advance, NC, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• More

  Monday Jun 30 | via WAVY-TV Portsmouth 

  Electric bills about to increase by 18 percent Updated: It's official. Your electric bill is about to soar.

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  Related Topix: Virginia Beach, VA, Home, Mortgage

• How other Ford workers are faring

  Jun 21, 2008 | via PilotOnline.com 

  Ray Wicker left the seafood business in 1995 to work for Ford. He's back with Wicker's Crab Pot Seafood on Indian River Road.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate

Regional Headlines

• Wildlife attracted to suburbs

  13 hrs ago | via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 

  Wildlife have come to enjoy life in the 'burbs for the same reasons mortgage-paying residents have.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Virginia, Home Listing

• Covering Rented Homes

  16 hrs ago | via WHSV-TV Harrisonburg 

  With the rise in foreclosures, more and more people are looking into renting homes these days.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Virginia

• Most of Virginia remains in throes of housing slump

  Yesterday | via WSLS-TV Roanoke 

  The housing slump continues in most parts of Virginia, with the exception of a few areas, including the Piedmont.

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  Related Topix: Virginia, Richmond, VA, Real Estate, Housing, Loudoun County, VA, Prince William County, VA

• Editor Takes the Plunge, Goes Through Licensing Process

  Thursday | via Sun - Gazette 

  Listen up, you top producers out there: you some day could have competition in the world of real estate.

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  Related Topix: Merrifield, VA, Real Estate, Virginia

• Experts gather to figure out how to decrease Virginia's foreclosure rate

  Wednesday | via WDBJ7 

  July 23, 2008 Experts gather to figure out how to decrease Virginia's foreclosure rate Virginia's foreclosure rate is rising faster than the national average.

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

National Headlines

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  4 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

  5 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

  5 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...

  5 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

  6 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