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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

• How Appraisers Inflated the Housing Bubble

  Jun 11, 2008 | via Style Weekly 

  For real estate appraiser George Dodd, the brick rancher in Chestnut Hill, a subdivision in Chesterfield County, was not unlike thousands he'd seen before.

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  Related Topix: Chesterfield County, VA, Housing, Richmond, VA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• CEO at Wachovia ousted

  Jun 3, 2008 | via NewsAdvance.com 

  A shake-up at the top echelons of Wachovia Corp., which led to Ken Thompson's departure yesterday as chief executive, has a Richmond connection.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• 1st Q Home Sales Down in County

  May 13, 2008 | via Henrico Citizen 

  Six hundred twenty-three homes were sold in Henrico during January, February and March - down from 934 during the first quarter of 2007.

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  Related Topix: Henrico County, VA, Glen Allen, VA, Housing, Chesterfield County, VA

• Mass construction projects are going up with the help of tax-exempt bonds

  Apr 2, 2008 | via NewsAdvance.com 

  Many large commercial projects are getting built in Virginia with a little help from the local government.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, New Kent, VA, New Kent County, VA, Hampton, VA, Chesterfield County, VA

• Web site lists Va. foreclosures

  Mar 24, 2008 | via NewsAdvance.com 

  Looking to find a house at a bargain? You might want to try a new Web site by Long & Foster, which lists all the foreclosed houses for sale in central and Northern Virginia.

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  Related Topix: Chesterfield County, VA, Hanover County, VA, Home Listing, Home, Foreclosures, Real Estate, Virginia

Regional Headlines

• Editorial: GOP 'Pride in Doing Nothing'

  Wednesday | via Falls Church News-Press 

  As the City of Falls Church's representative to the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority , City Council David Snyder delivered a scathing indictment against the House Republicans in Richmond who killed ...

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  Related Topix: Falls Church, VA, Virginia, Home, Mortgage, Prince William County, VA, Opinion

• Country Hit By Glut of Gloomy Economic News, Led By Inflation

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Air America Radio 

  Virginian - Pilot By MARTIN CRUTSINGER The Associated Press WASHINGTON The U.S. economic downturn gained steam Tuesday, with a report of the highest inflation since the early 1980s, more bad news for banks and ...

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  Related Topix: Virginia, Ben Bernanke, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

• Fed Moves to Protect Homebuyers in Future

  Monday Jul 14 | via Air America Radio 

  Virginian - Pilot By JEANNINE AVERSA By Jeannine Aversa The Associated Press WASHINGTON Confronted by record foreclosures, the Federal Reserve is ready to give homebuyers more protection from the types of shady ...

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  Related Topix: Virginia, Washington University in Saint Louis, Washington College, Washington State University, Foreclosures, Ben Bernanke

• June 2008 Most Expensive Sales in Northern Virginia

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Virginia Real Estate News 

  All information was obtained through MRIS. JUNE'S MOST EXPENSIVE SALES Single Family Detached Homes: 1028 Towlston Road, McLean, VA 22102 -- Sold on June 26th for $5,800,000 . This 7 bedroom 7 full bath home ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Fairfax County, VA, Fairfax, VA, Falls Church, VA, Great Falls, VA, Virginia

• State Office Helps Small Businesses Survive and Grow

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Huntington News 

  July 12, 2008 State Office Helps Small Businesses Survive and Grow From The Governor's Desk A weekly column by Gov.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Virginia, Virginia Government, West Virginia, West Virginia Government, Small Business, Personal Finance

National Headlines

• Economy needs stability before regulation

  3 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