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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

• Compromise sought on tax breaks for patio homes

  Thursday | via Buffalo News 

  Many suburban dwellers and town leaders used to take a live-and-let- live approach to condominium owners who got tax breaks.

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  Related Topix: Erie County, NY, Housing, Elma, NY, Real Estate, Lancaster, NY

• Gray brain drain.

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Reporter 

  Ever since the region's manufacturing sector began to decline in the 1970s, the flight of young, well-educated men and women from Western New York has been a problem that's frustrated business owners, educators ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Oldies, The Four Seasons, Erie County, NY

• Need help on closing costs?

  Monday Jul 7 | via Buffalo News 

  HomeFront and Citizens Bank are teaming up on a closing cost assistance program to help first-time homebuyers in Buffalo and Erie County with grants of up to $2,500. Applicants must have an annual household ...

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  Related Topix: Buffalo, NY, Erie County, NY, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Bargain hunters find deals at auction for foreclosed homes

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via WIVB-TV Buffalo 

  The bidders get a break during tough economic times and give some homes a second chance. 11 comments

  Related Topix: Erie County, NY, Foreclosures, Buffalo, NY

• More Buffalo-area developers come into the Rochester area

  Saturday Jun 21 | via Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 

  Largo Real Estate Advisors of Getzville, Erie County, recently arranged for a $1.7 million mortgage to cover improvements on two office buildings in Victor, Ontario County.

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  Related Topix: Getzville, NY, Erie County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• Bad economy means good business for repo men

  Yesterday | via Thehour.com 

  BRIDGEPORTAssociated PressThis is what it looks like when a gilded age turns to brass: the boats, motor homes and expensive cars bought during the good times are turned over to the repo men in favor of paying ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, New York Government, New York, Connecticut, Connecticut Government, Foreclosures

• Buffalo area tops for job growth

  Yesterday | via Buffalo News 

  Where was the New York State metro area with the hottest job growth in June? Would you believe Buffalo Niagara? While the region's job market was more tepid than scorching hot, the area still managed to add ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, New York, State University of New York System, Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Metro, Buffalo (State University of New York System), Allegany County, NY

• Politics is Everyone's Business

  Yesterday | via Rome Observer 

  The empire strikes back Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is flanked by Deputy Majority Leader Thomas Libous, R-52 Binghamton and Senator Joseph Griffo, R-47. Griffo invited his fellow Republicans to tour the ...

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  Related Topix: State University of New York System, Binghamton (State University of New York System), Home, Mortgage, New York, Oneida County, NY, Madison County, NY

• Your News Dissector Goes To Washington: NACA Helping Home Owners Big Time

  Yesterday | via News Dissector's Weblog 

  I arrived in our super hot Capital City to attend NACA's anti-foreclosure event at the Capital Hilton.

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  Related Topix: Washington Post, Publishing, World News, Ethiopia, Africa, New York, Foreclosures

• Economic role reversal

  Yesterday | via The Telegraph 

  German broker Dirk Mueller at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Washington, July 17: The global slowdown stemming in part from the deepening US financial crisis is hitting the world's richest nations the hardest ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing, New York, York (Pennsylvania State University System)

National Headlines

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  11 min ago | via Bubble Meter 

  Many culprits have been fingered for the housing crisis we're in today: unscrupulous mortgage lenders, dishonest borrowers, underregulated financial institutions.

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  Related Topix: UC San Francisco, University of California System, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• House prices 'will keep falling'

  16 min ago | via BBC 

  House prices in the UK and the US are likely to fall for another two years, the chairman of one of the world's most powerful banks has warned.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Failures of big banks fan fears of Staten Islanders

  20 min ago | via Pennlive.com 

  Fannie Mae headquarters in Washington, D.C. The collapse of a major national bank and growing talk of government bailouts of other financial institutions on the brink have Staten Islanders wondering if their ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Deposit, NY

• Suburbs, A Dream Too Real To Live?

  20 min ago | via The Ledger 

  Published: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 7:20 a.m. As the housing market implodes and financial institutions struggle, a difficult but necessary societal ...

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  Related Topix: Medicine, Alcoholism, Health, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Another sign

  20 min ago | via Brains and Eggs 

  "A taxpayer voting Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders." A number of drivers on Twin City Highway Thursday might have seen this message on the sign in front of Bob Costilow Realtors.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, African-American, Mandeville, LA, Home, Home Selling, Home Listing