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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

Regional Headlines

• Leach proves prophetic about mortgage crisis

  5 hrs ago | via Des Moines Register 

  From his office at Harvard, Jim Leach walked me through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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  Related Topix: Iowa, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• East-side residents fight mortgage crisis

  Thursday | via Http 

  Overgrown lawns, broken windows and tell-tale lock boxes are becoming more common sights in east Des Moines, where the number of vacated homes continues to increase as part of the nationwide mortgage crisis.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Iowa, Foreclosures

• Mortgage lending and housing market changes in Iowa

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via KWWL-TV Waterloo 

  For buyers and sellers, national economic and housing trends still apply in Iowa, just on a smaller scale.

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  Related Topix: Iowa, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Guest column: Free-market focus of GOP slows response to credit crisis

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Des Moines Register 

  Iowa native son Herbert Hoover was, by all accounts, a caring and compassionate individual.

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  Related Topix: Iowa Government, Iowa, Housing

• For Fannie and Freddie, a Feathered Nest

  Monday Jul 14 | via Air America Radio 

  International Herald Tribune By Julie Creswell As the administration of President George W. Bush scrambles to address the sudden decline of the two largest mortgage finance companies in the United States, some ...

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  Related Topix: Iowa, George Bush, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

National Headlines

• Faith, trust in God is good for community

  5 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

  1 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

  7 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

  26 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