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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

• Out-of-state homeowners add to foreclosure woes

  13 hrs ago | via Austin American-Statesman 

  A few years ago, investors from California and other boom markets flocked to Central Texas, looking for homes to buy.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Round Rock, TX, San Antonio, TX, Williamson County, TX

• Whining, carbon footprints and the truth

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Austin American Statesman 

  Re: July 11 article "McCain rejects aide Gramm's 'whiner' quote." Former Sen. Phil Gramm's statement about the country becoming "a nation of whiners" seems strange to most of us, but Gramm, below, probably has ...

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  Related Topix: US News, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

• Foreclosure rates here lower than many areas

  Saturday Jul 19 | via San Marcos Daily Record 

  Properties scheduled for foreclosure in August continued their climb in most Central Texas counties tracked by Foreclosure Listing Service, Inc., but Hays fared better than several.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Travis County, TX, Hays, TX, Williamson County, TX, Austin, TX, Austin Metro

• Retire in Portland for golf?

  Friday Jul 11 | via Portland Oregon Real Estate Blog 

  Get local insight to the Portland Real Estate Market. A blog of current housing conditions, home price evaluations, sales, and neighborhood details for buyers and sellers of houses and condos.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Housing, Auburn Metro, Auburn, AL

• Austin Area Foreclosures Rising

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Housing Doom 

  While " all real estate is local ", some problems are popping up all over. In spite of its reputation as one of the nation's "better" housing markets, foreclosures are reaching new heights in Austin, TX: In ...

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  Related Topix: Austin, TX, Travis County, TX, Foreclosures, Williamson County, TX

Regional Headlines

• Central Texas home sales decreasing due to hard economic times

  17 hrs ago | via KCEN 

  Updated: Jul 25, 2008 7:07pm New home sales have hit a nationwide low dropping 33-percent since last year and Central Texas is no exception to the trend.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Texas, Foreclosures

• Forbes names Austin area No. 2 city in nation for buying a new home

  23 hrs ago | via Hill Country News 

  Texas continues to shine like the lone star it is when it comes to building new homes.

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  Related Topix: Texas, Dallas Metro, Dallas Metro, Home, Mortgage, Austin, TX, Austin Metro

• Edwards Visits ACORN

  Yesterday | via Houtopia 

  Yesterday we had the opportunity to attend a very interesting roundtable discussion at ACORN's new digs in Midtown, an event headlined by former U.S. Senator, presidential, and vice presidential candidate John ...

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, John Edwards, 2008 Presidential Election, Foreclosures, Texas, Home, Mortgage

• Incommons Bank Addresses Banking Concerns

  Thursday | via Mexia Daily News 

  Deposits are safe and continue to be FDIC insured Mexia, TX - In a recent press conference at the Capital, the Independent Banker's Association of Texas Chairman Cliff McCauley and President and CEO Chris ...

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  Related Topix: Mexia, TX, Home, Mortgage, Texas

• East Texas Housing Market Strong

  Wednesday | via KLTV Tyler 

  A bill to help thousands of homeowners facing foreclosure is closer to becoming law.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Home, Home Selling, Foreclosures, Texas, Mortgage

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

  3 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