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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

• It seems that people who didn't put any money down were not as...

  Wednesday | via The York Daily Record 

  The Realtors Association of York and Adams Counties expects to see a decrease in membership as lagging home sales continue to challenge the local real estate market.

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  Related Topix: York, PA, York Metro, Housing, York County, PA, Real Estate, Lancaster County, PA

• Why do Fannie and Freddie matter to you?

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via The York Daily Record 

  Tom Wolf is president of Security Home Mortgage, 910 S. George St., York, and said he has been following the financial woes of mortgage securities companies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.

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  Related Topix: York, PA, York Metro, Tannersville, PA, York County, PA, Home, Mortgage

• Home sales tumble locally

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Evening Sun 

  Home sales in York and Adams counties are plummeting like never before in recent memory. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Real Estate, York Metro, Littlestown, PA, Adams County, PA, Housing, York County, PA

• York County home sales plummet 25%

  Friday Jul 11 | via York Dispatch 

  The York County housing market has been strong in recent years, but lagging sales and prices are forming a new trend that mirrors the state of the national economy and its low consumer confidence. 2 comments

  Related Topix: Housing, York, PA, York Metro, York County, PA, Spring Grove, PA, Real Estate

• Census: Adams tops in Pa. for new businesses

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Evening Sun 

  Census statistics released by a state agency this week paint a picture of thriving business and development in Adams County between 2005 and 2006.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Gettysburg, PA, Adams County, PA, York County, PA

Regional Headlines

• State Capitol Roundup for July 18

  8 hrs ago | via Tony Phyrillas 

  I thought the Legislature was on its 2-month summer vacation, but it appears some lawmakers are still in Harrisburg.

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  Related Topix: Harrisburg (Pennsylvania State University System), Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Home, Mortgage

• Wachovia's Brokerage Inspected by State Regulators in Auction-Rate Probe

  Thursday | via Bloomberg 

  Wachovia Corp. 's securities division was inspected by a team of regulators from more than five states who delivered subpoenas today as part of a probe into the company's sales of auction-rate bonds.

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Advertising, Boston University, Pennsylvania

• Don Spatz,

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Reading Eagle/Reading Times 

  I've taken shots at the Pennsylvania Department of Banking for hiding behind a legal gag and refusing to say what really happened in the Wesley Snyder case.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Federal Prisons, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Consumer Prices Jump by the Most Since 2005 on Surge in Fuel, Food Costs

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Bloomberg 

  Prices paid by U.S. consumers jumped in June by the most since 2005 on spiraling costs for fuel and food, intensifying the pressure on households struggling with falling home prices and the credit crunch.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Ben Bernanke, Pennsylvania

• Economic Outlook: Midwestern banks to see tough round of quarterly results

  Sunday Jul 13 | via MarketWatch 

  A wave of gloomy results from the second quarter are expected to be the highlight of reports that Midwestern regional banks will issue in the coming days, analysts say.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, US Bancorp, Marshall University, Pennsylvania

National Headlines

• Faith, trust in God is good for community

  8 min ago | via The Leaf Chronicle 

  I'm responding to the article dated June 29, 2008, "Local industry a big deal to Little." First of all, I would like to say in the rise of the real estate market there was one good thing I found when moving to ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Clarksville, TN, Opinion

• Letter: Council decisions

  3 hrs ago | via Atwater Signal 

  Editor: After reading Stuart Rawling's letter of July 11, I would also like to add some of my additional concerns regarding the City Council and its decisions.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Welcoming foreclosure

  4 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

• Freddie Mac readies its stock plan

  10 min ago | via The Herald 

  Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage-finance giant, on Friday took a major step with the Securities and Exchange Commission toward selling billions of dollars of stock.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Securities and Exchange Commission

• Seven Days, Seven Projects for a Kitchen that Sells

  28 min ago | via Tideland News 

  In today's market, selling a home involves much more than posting a "for-sale" sign in the yard.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Construction