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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

• MURRIETA: Lenders' absence hampers foreclosure workshop

  Friday | via The Californian 

  City leaders who organized a recent foreclosure workshop expressed frustration this week that few lenders turned out to participate in the discussion.

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  Related Topix: Riverside County, CA, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Mary Bono, Murrieta, CA, Home, Mortgage

• Agents find challenge, opportunity in market

  Yesterday | via Desert Sun 

  The term "foreclosure" often evokes images of rundown homes and yellowed yards.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Riverside County, CA, Salton City, CA, Desert Hot Springs, CA, Real Estate

• Jobs outlook weak as California's unemployment rate hits 6.9% in June

  Yesterday | via KCPQ 

  California's jobless rate crept ahead Friday as experts saw weakness spreading into new areas of the economy.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Chicago (University of Illinois System), University of Illinois System, Corona, CA

• Inland rents start to level off, report says

  Yesterday | via The Press-Enterprise 

  After coping with years of strong rent growth, Inland Southern California apartment dwellers are getting relief.

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  Related Topix: California, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, Housing, UC Riverside, University of California System, San Bernardino, CA

• Home sales increase in Inland Empire

  Thursday Jul 17 | via KABC 

  The housing market meltdown that has had a dire impact across Southern California is seeing a turnaround in the Inland Empire.

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  Related Topix: San Bernardino County, CA, Riverside County, CA, Housing, Foreclosures, Home Listing, Home

Regional Headlines

• Cash challenged? Cry uncle

  3 hrs ago | via Chicago Tribune 

  Two little-known federal programs may hold the answer for would-be home buyers who don't have money for a down payment or don't have money left after closing to update their properties.

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  Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Home Buying, Home, California, UC Riverside, University of California System, UC San Diego, Mortgage

• Calif. To Be Hit Hard Among Nation's 1 Million Foreclosures

  18 hrs ago | via NBC Channel 11 

  A forecast released Friday has predicted that 1 million homes will be in foreclosure nationwide by the end of the year. 10 comments

  Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Home Listing

• Solar-powered homes give builder an edge

  Yesterday | via Lake Elsinore Valley News 

  Challenged with selling new homes in a tough residential real estate market, Woodside Homes has partnered with solar panel giant SunPower Corp., Southern California Edison and the makers of energy-efficient ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Energy, California, Temecula, CA

• No housing bubble in Canada: Flaherty

  Yesterday | via National Post 

  Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty shrugged off housing worries in Canada Wednesday, saying there is no bubble and that the subprime-mortgage woes crippling financial institutions in the United States are ...

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  Related Topix: Commerce (Texas A&M University System), Texas A&M University System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

• Starbucks closures heaviest in California, Florida, Texas

  Friday | via WNED.org 

  California, Florida and Texas, the U.S. states with the most Starbucks Corp stores, will see the most shuttered as the coffee chain axes more than 600 underperforming outlets in the coming year.

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  Related Topix: Drink, Coffee, Restaurant Management, Starbucks, California, Laguna Beach, CA, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Governor needs to work with Pelosi to save Medi-Cal

  4 min ago | via San Jose Mercury News 

  If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to save health care coverage for poor and disabled Californians, he should get House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the phone - and soon.

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  Related Topix: Elderly, Family, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Opinion

• Loan program may help borrowers in trouble

  5 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  Although it has hundreds of pages and dozens of separate initiatives - including revamping federal oversight of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - the centerpiece is a $300 billion program designed to ...

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

• Editorial: Skeptical eyes on reverse mortgages

  6 min ago | via Star Tribune 

  Swanson, FBI are right to urge caution. Last update: July 19, 2008 - 5:08 PM A NEW MARKET "You have a lot of unemployed mortgage people, brokers, bankers who are in trouble, looking for the next big profit ...

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  Related Topix: Health, AARP, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  6 min ago | via Athens Banner-Herald 

  Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US News, Housing, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Realtors Get Creative During Summertime Sales Blues

  6 min ago | via Banker & Tradesman 

  Boston-based Charlesgate Realty Group recently had a catered open house for 290 Marlborough St.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Back Bay (Boston, MA), Boston, MA