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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

• and Whatcom Business Magazine

  Yesterday | via Bellingham Herald 

  Member Center Jul, 24, 2008 BUSINESS Wells Fargo names senior Business Banking relationship manager ` *Beta Graham Youtsey has been named senior Business Banking relationship manager at Wells Fargo.

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  Related Topix: Western Washington University, Home, Mortgage, Whatcom County, WA, Washington, Bellingham, WA

• Overall home sales show slowdown

  Saturday Jul 19 | via Bellingham Herald 

  A fresh report gives new details about the home sales slowdown in Whatcom County.

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  Related Topix: Whatcom County, WA, Housing, Ferndale, WA, Lynden, WA, Blaine, WA, Bellingham, WA

• Three added to mortgage firm

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Bellingham Herald 

  Wells Fargo Home Mortgage recently added a trio of experienced home mortgage consultants to its Bellingham staff.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Whatcom County, WA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Bellingham Metro, Bellingham, WA

• Foreclosure filings rise

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Bellingham Herald 

  Foreclosure filings rose in Whatcom County last month, but are still below the state and national rate.

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  Related Topix: Whatcom County, WA, Foreclosures

• Region's home sales down 39 percent in June

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Bellingham Herald 

  MORE LOCAL NUMBERS A look at Whatcom County numbers from Northwest Multiple Listing report that were not included in last week's report from real estate agent Lylene Johnson, who also analyzes the data: > Home ...

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  Related Topix: Whatcom County, WA, Real Estate, Housing, Home Listing, Home, Snohomish, WA

Regional Headlines

• Treasury Notes Drop on Stock Gains, Outlook for Wider U.S. Budget Deficit

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via Bloomberg 

  Treasury 10-year notes fell for a second day as stocks advanced and a government rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spurred concern the budget deficit will grow.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Washington, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

• Real Estate Tourists Venture Out on "Foreclosure Safari"

  Sunday Jul 20 | via KIMA 

  It's a safari unlike any you've seen before-- it's in your neighborhoods. More than 40 people took a bus tour of foreclosed homes around the Tri-Cities Saturday.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Washington, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Bush claims privilege to withhold CIA leak records

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Tri-cityherald.com 

  President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 15, 2008, where he called on Congress to move quickly to put into force legislation designed to prop up mortgage ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae, George Bush, Washington, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Top Story: Plame Games Continue: Bush Claims Executive Privilege On CIA Leak

  Thursday Jul 17 | via ABC News 

  The Associated Press 47 comments President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 15,... President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae, Washington, George Bush, US News, State of the Union

• Law skewed in favor of builders

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

  For the past two years, I've offered a bill in the state Senate that attempts to level the playing field between home buyers and builders.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Thurston County, WA, Olympia Metro, Olympia, WA, Washington, Opinion

National Headlines

• Senate Passes Housing Rescue Bill, Bush to Sign

  2 min ago | via WCOH-AM Newnan 

  The Congress approved a massive housing market rescue bill on Saturday, offering emergency financing to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, creating a new regulator for the mortgage titans and setting up a $300 billion ...

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

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  4 min ago | via Kndu.com 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Yakima, WA

• Alexander Backs Housing Bill, Which Passes 72-13

  4 min ago | via Chattanoogan.com 

  He said the Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 includes the following provisions: Provides a refundable tax credit of up to $7,500 for first-time homebuyers, and a standard property tax deduction for taxpayers ...

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

• Mike's Blog Roundup

  5 min ago | via Crooks and Liars 

  Years of proxy wars with the USSR created demons that US arrogance thought could never turn and rend it.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Metro

• How they voted: Senate roll call on housing bill

  6 min ago | via Alabama Live 

  The 72-13 roll call Saturday by which the Senate passed a bill that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to prevent mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from failing.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Alabama