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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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Local Headlines

• Fitch Downgrades 1 Class of LB 2006-LLF C5

  Friday Jun 27 | via PR-inside.com 

  Classes FLM, FRT-1, FRT-2, FRT-3, SFL and SMN have paid in full. The downgrade of Class L is due to declining performance of the Sheraton Keauhou Bay Resort & Spa , Praedium Rental Portfolio II , Praedium ...

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• Two Big Isle firms will combine operations

  Friday Jun 27 | via The Honolulu Advertiser 

  Two Big Island-based residential real estate brokerage companies are merging in a deal that involves one of the island's top-selling firms.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Kailua Kona, HI

• With time ticking down, few challengers for Honolulu Council have emerged

  Jun 12, 2008 | via Poinography! 

  The Advertiser repots today that no election papers have been drawn to challenge Councilmembers Apo, Garcia, and Kobayashi.

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  Related Topix: Kailua, HI, Kailua, HI, Housing, Hawaii County, HI

• Fitch Takes Various Rating Actions on COMM 2006- FL12

  Jun 13, 2008 | via PR-inside.com 

  Class A-1 has paid in full. Fitch also affirms the rake classes as follows: --$12.8 million class CN-1 at 'BBB'; --$8.7 million class CN-2 at 'BBB'; --$8.7 million class CN-3 at 'BBB-'; --$74.4 million class ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Metro

• Golf course goes to creditor

  May 17, 2008 | via The Honolulu Advertiser 

  A lender that was owed $23 million on a Big Island golf course and planned housing subdivision claimed the project after no one was willing to bid more than $5.5 million for the property at a foreclosure ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Kailua Kona, HI

Regional Headlines

• 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

• 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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• 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

National Headlines

• Flip that house

  4 min ago | via Ottawa Sun 

  Lay down a small investment on a fixer-upper. Spend a month or two painting, laying down laminate floors, retiling the bathroom, finishing the basement.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Home Listing

• Realtors to give Washoe schools $11,500

  5 min ago | via Reno Gazette-Journal 

  The Reno/Sparks Association of Realtors and the Incline Village Board of Realtors will present Washoe County School District superintendent Paul Dugan with a check for $11,500 for repairs, improvements and ...

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  Related Topix: Sparks, NV, Reno, NV, Reno Metro, Incline-Village, NV, Education Etc., Real Estate

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  5 min ago | via The Mississippi Press 

  Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US News, Housing, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Real estate slump brings rise in short sales

  20 min ago | via Las Vegas Review Journal 

  Jo-Anne Guderian of Coldwell Banker Premier Realty says fewer than 30 percent of short sales in her office close escrow.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Home Selling, Housing, Mortgage, Las Vegas, NV, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Report paints gloomy picture

  22 min ago | via Shropshire Star 

  Ask yourself this question: What is Ludlow best known for? Your answer will probably include a few of the following: Fantastic restaurants, a beautiful castle, glorious countryside, vibrant festivals and a rich ...

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