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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Volatile markets teach lessons about investing

  May 26, 2008 | via InvestmentNews 

  Advisers need the discipline to acknowledge a bubble and not invest in it Whether they like it or not, advisers have become well-versed in financial manias, panics and bubbles.

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  Related Topix: Bellevue, WA, Seattle Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Foreclosure rate rises

  May 16, 2008 | via Goshen News, Goshen, IN 

  With local manufacturing companies laying off workers and the cost of gasoline reaching almost $4 a gallon, many families have found it difficult to make ends meet.

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  Related Topix: Elkhart County, IN, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Neverland Ranch foreclosure auction canceled

  May 13, 2008 | via Goshen News, Goshen, IN 

  A foreclosure auction scheduled this week for Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch was canceled after an investment company bought the loan.

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  Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, Foreclosures, Financial Services, Investment Services, Entertainment

• Business briefs

  May 7, 2008 | via Lubbock Avalanche-Journal 

  Wednesday, May 07, 2008 Story last updated at 5/7/2008 - 2:15 am Task force formed to battle foreclosures Lubbock Mayor David Miller joined members of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs on ...

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  Related Topix: Lubbock, TX, Lubbock Metro, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Crossing the divide: Illegal and unaware

  Apr 27, 2008 | via ETruth.com 

  For more than 10 years, Jos stood armed and ready with a screw gun when the factory buzzer sounded at 5 a.m. Eight and a half or nine hours later, he would clock out and drive home to meet his oldest daughter's ...

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Elkhart County, IN, Social Security

Regional Headlines

• Area home sales down 25% from a year ago

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via The Indianapolis Star 

  May home sales in Central Indiana sank nearly 25 percent from a year ago -- the worst of three straight months of double-digit declines.

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  Related Topix: Montgomery County, IN, Home, Home Selling, Home Listing, Foreclosures, Central, IN, Indiana

• Indy home sales drop 20% in past year

  Monday Jun 30 | via IndyStar.com 

  Home sales in Central Indiana dropped 20 percent with double-digit declines even in Hamilton and Hendricks counties, according to a new statistical snapshot out today.

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  Related Topix: Central, IN, Hamilton County, IN, Hendricks County, IN, Indiana, Housing

• Beyond property taxes: New laws as of Tuesday

  Monday Jun 30 | via Rushville Republican 

  Beyond historic property tax reforms, new Indiana laws going into effect on July 1 will help improve consumer protections, education, environment, healthcare and public safety for Hoosiers, State Sen.

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  Related Topix: Milroy, IN, Indiana, Home, Mortgage

• Lawmakers should open door to all finances

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Journal Gazette 

  We've lived this long without knowing who holds the Indiana senators' mortgages.

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  Related Topix: Indiana, US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Mortgage Fraud Scam Sucks In 100 Virginian's

  Sep 28, 2006 | via The Real Estate Bloggers 

  Approximately 100 average folks from Virginia were tricked into letting con artists involve them in a scam to defraud mortgage companies.

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  Related Topix: Indiana, Virginia, Virginia Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

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 

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• 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