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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

• Gaston County foreclosures surge in May

  Monday Jun 23 | via The Gaston Gazette 

  More homeowners lost their homes in Gaston County in May than in any other month in at least six years, the latest figures show.

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  Related Topix: Gastonia, NC, Gaston County, NC, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Small Biz Bite: HouseMaster inspector protects home buyers

  Friday Jun 13 | via The Gaston Gazette 

  The biggest decision a person can make is buying a home. For Butch Upton, owner of HouseMaster in Belmont, it takes another step to ensure protection for the consumer.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Belmont, NC, Charlotte, NC

• June 3, 2008, at the North Carolina General Assembly

  Jun 3, 2008 | via Myrtle Beach Online 

  HEADLINES: - House budget winds its way through committees before expected floor vote - Marriage license fee increase removed from NC House budget - Easley says House "stiffing the teachers," retreating on ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Wedding, Gaston County, NC, North Carolina Government, North Carolina

• Real estate in Gaston a mixed bag

  May 7, 2008 | via The Gaston Gazette 

  Charlotte captured national attention when last month's figures showed that home prices grew about two percent while every other major U.S. city saw prices fall. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Housing, Gaston County, NC, Belmont, NC, Mount Holly, NC, Real Estate

• Panel rules that Kelly Hastings cannot run for House seat

  Apr 8, 2008 | via The Star Online 

  A state-appointed panel ruled Tuesday that Kelly Hastings is not eligible to run for the North Carolina House of Representatives in District 110.

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  Related Topix: North Carolina, Bessemer City, NC, Home, Home Renting, Gaston County, NC, Cleveland County, NC, Gastonia, NC

Regional Headlines

• Wachovia quits offering risky mortgage loan

  Monday Jun 30 | via Sac Bee 

  Beleaguered consumer bank Wachovia Corp. said Monday it will quit offering a mortgage payment option that allows borrowers to pay less each month than the bank charges in interest.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Wachovia Corporation, Banking, Financial Services, North Carolina, Foreclosures

• Bill to Help Struggling Homeowners Making Progress

  Friday | via WNCT-TV Greenville 

  A plan that could help 25,000 North Carolinians keep their homes is making progress.

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  Related Topix: North Carolina, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Asheville Residential Sales Statistics - June 2008

  Friday Jul 4 | via Athomeasheville.com 

  Source: Search performed in North Carolina Mountains MLS. Excludes manufactured and modular homes.

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  Related Topix: North Carolina, Real Estate, Mortgage, Home

• July 3, 2008, at the NC General Assembly

  Thursday Jul 3 | via The Dispatch 

  HEADLINES: - House, Senate reach agreement on $21B NC budget bill, vote expected next week - Final budget bill leaves out using surplus for teacher salaries - Borrowing could increase $857 million over four ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, North Carolina Government, North Carolina

• CDO Creators Seek Redemption, and Profits, From Subprime Mortgage Market

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via Bloomberg.com 

  Money managers including TCW Group Inc. and Harding Advisory LLC that topped the list of firms behind the most toxic mortgage securities have raised more than $4.3 billion to invest in home-loan debt.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Investment Services, Foreclosures, North Carolina, Investment Banking, Goldman Sachs Group

National Headlines

• Buffalo Ranks High in Big Cities with Low Rent

  18 min ago | via Br city 

  Renting homes and apartments is becoming more popular nationwide due to stricter rules in obtaining a mortgage.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Online Newspaper

  19 min ago | via The Bangladesh Observer 

  NNN: We Make Newspapers National. One Stop Access to Major USA Papers in Print and Online .

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Most folks in Otisville understand change

  25 min ago | via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record 

  We are working stiffs who wonder how on earth we will pay for gas, mortgages and heat.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Orange County, NY, Otisville, NY, Middletown, NY

• Housing market in Welsh town shows wider woes

  27 min ago | via Arizona Daily Star 

  During a bustling lunch hour in this Welsh commuter town, 25-year-old Richard Williams is one of the few who pause to look at properties for sale in a real-estate agent's window - and he isn't buying.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Las Vegas, NV, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Chesapeake makes four major land buys in area

  34 min ago | via Fort Worth Star-Telegram 

  Fort Worth-based Vintage Capital Partners has sold nearly 15 of the 20 acres that it bought along White Settlement Road and Nursery Lane to a Virginia investment firm, which then flipped it to a division of ...

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  Related Topix: Wichita Falls Metro, Wichita Falls, TX, Housing, Dean, TX, Horseshoe Bay, TX