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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

• Debacle's true face: Refinancers

  22 hrs ago | via Denver Post 

  Vicki Miller bought her childhood home in Altoona, Pa., from her mother's estate for $32,000, using a nice, traditional mortgage from the local savings and loan.

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

• Don Spatz,

  Saturday | via Reading Eagle/Reading Times 

  Mortgage broker Wesley Snyder, who is to be sentenced today in federal court in Harrisburg, last week wrote a letter of apology to his 800 or so victims whose bills are $25 million higher than he and his ...

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  Related Topix: Harrisburg Metro, Harrisburg, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Berks County, PA

• Subprime crisis is hard to pin on greedy buyers

  Saturday | via The Tennessean 

  WASHINGTON - Vicki Miller bought her childhood home in Altoona, Pa., from her mother's estate for $32,000, using a nice, traditional mortgage from the local savings and loan.

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Housing, Foreclosures, Altoona, PA

• Ex-broker gets 12 years in Pennsylvania mortgage scam

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Indiana Gazette Online 

  SATURDAY: SUNDAY: Leisure We have 1565 guests online Written by Peter Jackson, AP HARRISBURG, Pa.

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  Related Topix: Harrisburg, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Court log: Former mortgage broker gets 12 years in prison

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via InYork 

  HARRISBURG, Pa. -- A former mortgage broker sentenced to federal prison Wednesday blamed his poor business acumen for causing hundreds of Pennsylvania homeowners and investors to lose more than $29 million in ...

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  Related Topix: Harrisburg, PA, Pennsylvania, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• US presidential election won't stop foreclosures 4:54AM ET

  16 hrs ago | via BusinessWeek 

  Home foreclosures will keep rising next year no matter who is elected president in November.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, John McCain, US News, Barack Obama, Christopher Dodd, Pennsylvania, 2008 Presidential Election, Foreclosures

• Chester County

  17 hrs ago | via Baker County Standard 

  Full Service Independent Realtors. Our specialty is Southeastern PA. Search the MLS for FREE.

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• Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong'

  22 hrs ago | via Log Cabin Democrat 

  In this April 1, 2008 file photo, Joseph Barratt, 55, and others demonstrate outside a HOPE NOW home ownership preservation workshop at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Home, Mortgage

• Budget not only bill state legislature passes

  Friday | via Standard Speaker 

  By ROBERT SWIFT Harrisburg Bureau Chief HARRISBURG While the state budget commands the lion's share of attention this time of year, state lawmakers also approved three major pieces of legislation that will ...

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  Related Topix: Pittston, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Pennsylvania

• Ex-Reading broker gets 12 years in $29M mortgage scam

  Thursday Jul 3 | via InYork 

  HARRISBURG -- A former mortgage broker sentenced to federal prison Wednesday blamed his poor business acumen for causing hundreds of Pennsylvania homeowners and investors to lose more than $29 million in what ...

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Lancaster County, PA, Berks County, PA

National Headlines

• Buffalo Ranks High in Big Cities with Low Rent

  19 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

  21 min ago | via The Bangladesh Observer 

  NNN: We Make Newspapers National. One Stop Access to Major USA Papers in Print and Online .

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• Most folks in Otisville understand change

  26 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

  28 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

  36 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