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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

• Vermont Tackles Winter Heating Assistance

  Saturday Jun 28 | via WCAX-TV Burlington 

  Summer has provided a welcome break from the heating season. But state officials and consumers alike are worried about what next winter will bring in terms of fuel prices and supply.

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  Related Topix: Bennington County, VT, Vermont, Mortgage, Home

• Birdhouses make cozy connection for RAHC

  May 16, 2008 | via The Bennington Banner 

  This event isn't one for the birds. On the other hand, it could be. Some of the birdhouses about 20 area artists and craftspeople are finishing up in time for an unveiling at the Bennington Center for the Arts ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Bennington County, VT, Bennington, VT, Manchester, VT

• Habitat's construction kick-off open house

  May 15, 2008 | via Manchester Journal 

  A On Saturday, May 17 from 1 to 3 p.m. Bennington Area Habitat for Humanity will host an open house in West Rupert at the site of their ninth home - the home that has been started for Glenn and Christine Morey ...

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  Related Topix: West-Rupert, VT, Bennington, VT, Home Listing, Home, Mortgage, Dorset, VT

Regional Headlines

• Bank leaders meet on fuel loans

  Yesterday | via Rutland Herald 

  Representatives of 16 of the 21 banks in the state met this week to talk about how to respond to requests for loans from homeowners and fuel dealers in the face of skyrocketing fuel oil costs.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Vermont, Vermont Government, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Bernard Sanders

• Officials say state banks remain safe

  Monday Jul 21 | via The Brattleboro Reformer 

  While the financial news has been dominated lately by home foreclosures and banking turmoil, officials in Vermont say there is no need to panic or start a new financial approach by stuffing dollars under a ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Vermont, Brattleboro, VT, Home, Mortgage

• My Turn: The real 'cost' of Rep. Kitzmiller

  Friday Jul 11 | via BurlingtonFreePress.com 

  In a recent e-mail to his constituents, Rep. Warren Kitzmiller wrote about workers' compensation insurance, 'Many in the business community were disappointed that I refused to slash benefits , but I think the ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Vermont

• Selling Fully Furnished

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Hartford Courant 

  Ralph and Catherine DeLeo have spent the past 10 years traveling around the world and, along the way, buying items to furnish their Southbury home.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Vermont, Housing

• Real Estate Market 2008

  Monday Jul 7 | via VermontGuides.com 

  "Today's market is very different from where it was 10 years ago, when clients came to brokers for the information because they couldn't get it anywhere else.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Real Estate, Vermont

National Headlines

• U.S. Congress passes mortgage aid for 400,000 struggling homeowners

  2 min ago | via Penticton Herald 

  U.S. Congress passed a housing rescue bill Saturday aimed at sparing 400,000 struggling homeowners from foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, George Bush, US Politics, US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• FDIC closes First Heritage Bank

  2 min ago | via Taipei Times 

  WILD WEST: The 28 bank branches in Nevada, Arizona and California will reopen as Mutual of Omaha Bank branches X with the full amount of deposits insured AP, CARSON CITY, NEVADA Sunday, Jul 27, 2008, Page 11 ...

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  Related Topix: Scottsdale, AZ, Foreclosures, Arizona, Arizona Government

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  2 min ago | via My West Texas 

  Congress passed the most significant housing legislation in decades Saturday, offering help to struggling homeowners and seeking to stabilize a troubled housing market that has dragged down the economy.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Congress passes housing rescue bill

  2 min ago | via KATU-TV Portland 

  Congress has passed a housing rescue bill aimed at sparing 400,000 struggling homeowners from foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: US News, Foreclosures, US Politics, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Building wealth : Not yet time to relax

  3 min ago | via The New Zealand Herald 

  Many homeowners and potential buyers may have thought they could breathe a sigh of relief after the Reserve Bank cut the official cash rate last week for the first time in five years.

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  Related Topix: Oceania, New Zealand, World News, Mortgage, Home