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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

• City Leader

  23 hrs ago | via WSVN-TV Miami Beach 

  Nancy Simon is a member of the Miami Lakes town council. She was also once a licensed real estate agent.

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• Furniture dealers hit hard by struggling housing market

  Yesterday | via ScrippsNews 

  Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 15:11. In the furniture business nowadays, even flat sales are considered good.

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  Related Topix: Conover, NC, Charlotte (University of North Carolina System), University of North Carolina System, Apex, NC, Cary, NC, Housing

• If I were a poor man

  Thursday | via New Statesman 

  One result of the mayhem engulfing the US economy is unlikely: there has been an abrupt drop in the number of divorces The American economy is on the brink of recession.

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  Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Bear Stearns, Investment Services, Foreclosures, Miami Dade County, FL, Broward County, FL

• Housing Downturn--Choices Made

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via BoomtownUSA 

  My sister-in-law Theresa has been visiting us this past week from Hollywood, FL, one of the counties that is the bright red in yesterday's blog.

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  Related Topix: Hollywood, FL, Housing

• New Foreclosure Twists

  Sunday Jul 13 | via South Florida Business Journal 

  Filed foreclosures of condominiums in Broward County are double the activity in Miami-Dade County for the first half of 2008, according to data provided by Condo Vultures Realty .

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  Related Topix: Housing, Palm Beach County, FL, Coral Springs, FL, Broward County, FL, Pompano Beach, FL

Regional Headlines

• Drummond Made Its Dorchester Model Larger, Not Smaller

  27 min ago | via The Ledger 

  In today's much-maligned real estate market, the Drummond Co. decided it had to reboot a new model of homes for another phase of the Grasslands Golf and Country Club.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Florida

• Pro Bono Foreclosure Prevention Project

  7 hrs ago | via The Town-Crier Newspaper 

  Pro Bono Foreclosure Prevention Project The Florida Bar Foundation and Florida Legal Services are seeking members of the Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar to assist homeowners ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Florida, Royal Palm Beach, FL

• He's Gone Again

  14 hrs ago | via WJHG-TV Panama City 

  Florida's lost more jobs than any other state in the nation and ranks second in foreclosures.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Florida, Florida Government

• Florida

  19 hrs ago | via Daily Business Review 

  Their February outlook had been for recovery to start about a year from now, but a new update says things probably won't begin turning around until the end of 2009.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Florida, Florida Government

• Ruminations

  21 hrs ago | via RiskProf 

  Time Magazine takes a look at Florida ... Greetings from Florida, where the winters are great! Otherwise, there's trouble in paradise.

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

National Headlines

• Lawmaker: Extend mortgage protection for vets

  8 min ago | via MilitaryCity.com 

  Two projects aimee at protecting veterans with adjustable rate mortgages and adjustable hybrid rate mortgages could be extended past the end of this year if Rep.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Life, Veteran Affairs, US Politics, Ginny Brown-Waite, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Foreclosures

• Debt consolidation loans to manage debts easily and intelligently

  2 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  The main reason for such a situation is the high credit card bills, loans, and mortgages, etc.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Adverse Credit Remortgage - Refinance Easily

  3 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  This is done mainly to get a new mortgage for a lower rate of interest from a different lender for a better rate.

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

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  17 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'

  22 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