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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

• Hawaii Real Estate Blasts Into Cyberspace With Prudential Lo...

  10 hrs ago | via Customer Interaction Solutions 

  HONOLULU, HI, July 18 / MARKET WIRE/ -- Prudential Locations, Hawaii's largest locally owned and operated real estate company, announced today the launch of HawaiiRealEstateReporter.com, an interactive blog ...

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  Related Topix: Honolulu, HI, Marketing, Internet, Science / Technology, Real Estate

• Home values stabilizing

  Yesterday | via Honolulu Star-Bulletin 

  An expert says that by 2013, property values will increase by 30% The long-term outlook for Honolulu's residential real estate market and for most of the country in general is bullish, but consumer confidence ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Honolulu Metro, Honolulu, HI, Real Estate, Housing

• Hawaii developers council discuss state of Hawaii real estate

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via KHNL-TV Honolulu 

  The current state of the economy and cooling real estate market leave people who live here in the islands wondering about the market's future direction.

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  Related Topix: Honolulu Metro, Honolulu, HI, Real Estate, Hawaii

• Isles top all but 5 states in mortgage fraud cases

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via The Honolulu Advertiser 

  Reports of mortgage fraud in Hawai'i during the second quarter were high in a national ranking, though the amount of money involved was relatively low, according to a mortgage industry publication.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Honolulu Metro, Honolulu, HI, Real Estate

• Warehouse rents dip as Isle economy slows

  Friday Jul 11 | via The Honolulu Advertiser 

  The slowdown in Hawai'i's construction industry and other business sectors has begun to dampen prices in the state's strongest real estate market: warehouse property.

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  Related Topix: Honolulu Metro, Honolulu, HI, Kapolei, HI, Real Estate

Regional Headlines

• Mortgage woes blamed for this years' filings

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via Honolulu Star-Bulletin 

  Bankruptcies are on the rise in Hawaii, due mostly to a higher percentage of filings related to real estate problems.

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  Related Topix: Honolulu Metro, Honolulu, HI, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Hawaii

• UPI NewsTrack Business

  Saturday Jun 28 | via Daily India 

  Hawaii requires solar water heaters HONOLULU, June 28 -- Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle says the state has moved closer to energy independence by requiring solar water heaters in all new home construction.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Hawaii Government, Hawaii, Mortgage

• Hawaii requires new homes to have solar water heaters, trying to cut fossil fuel imports

  Friday Jun 27 | via PR-inside.com 

  Hawaii, which relies heavily on imported fossil fuels, has become the first U.S. state to require solar water heaters in new homes, pleasing environmentalists but frustrating residents upset with the island ...

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  Related Topix: Hawaii, Hawaii Government, Housing

• Governor Lingle releases funds to assist Habitat for Humanity

  Monday Jun 23 | via KHNL-TV Honolulu 

  Fifteen island families will be getting some much needed help on the home front.

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  Related Topix: Hawaii, Hawaii Government, Mortgage, Home

• Mililani marks a milestone

  Saturday Jun 21 | via Honolulu Star-Bulletin 

  After four decades in the making, Mililani, the state's first fee-simple, master-planned community comes to completion.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Honolulu Metro, Honolulu, HI, Hawaii, Mililani Town, HI, Mililani, HI

National Headlines

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  12 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'

  17 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

  21 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?

  21 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

  22 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