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Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year
Thursday Jun 19 | via Realty Trac
The euphoria that surrounded six years of escalating home prices, record levels of home sales and rock-bottom interest rates crashed and burned in 2007, forcing many foreclosure investors to ratchet down their ...
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Related Topix: Financial Services, Housing, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage
Housing troubles trickle into resort towns
Thursday Jun 26 | via Sac Bee
Michigan's Up North destinations such as Traverse City, Petoskey, Charlevoix and Harbor Springs still command serious money in resort real estate.
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Related Topix: Harbor Springs, MI, Foreclosures, Southfield, MI, Frankfort, MI, Benzonia, MI, Kalkaska, MI
Housing troubles trickle into resort towns: Buyer's market gives you lake living for less money
Jun 12, 2008 | via WZZM
Those areas, in demand from more than just Michiganders, have largely avoided the worst effects of the housing bust - falling home values, rising foreclosures and tight credit.
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Related Topix: Harbor Springs, MI, Foreclosures, Detroit Metro, Frankfort, MI, Benzonia, MI, Kalkaska, MI
Inflation takes hold in Europe
9 hrs ago | via Detroit News
It took a few months. But the economic woes touched off by soaring oil prices and the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States are finally engulfing Europe.
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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Banking, Bank of America, Financial Services, Charlotte (University of North Carolina System), University of North Carolina System, Michigan
University comes to Michigan's rescue
Thursday | via Holland Sentinel
As job losses, foreclosures and other woes continue to batter Michigan, an unlikely savior has emerged from the halls of academia.
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Related Topix: Foreclosures, Michigan, Michigan Government, Ann Arbor (University of Michigan System)
Big players in real estate now on the same team
Thursday | via LivingstonDaily
Two of the biggest names in real estate in Livingston County have combined and created a new force in the market.
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Related Topix: Livingston County, MI, Howell, MI, Real Estate, Brighton, MI, Michigan
Announces Disaster Assistance for Michigan Storm Victims
Tuesday Jul 15 | via HUD
U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to 11 storm-ravaged counties in Michigan and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...
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Related Topix: Weather, Michigan, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance
Sunday Jul 13 | via LivingstonDaily
What happens when a constitutional amendment is so complicated that the amendment itself becomes unconstitutional? We might be about to find out.
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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Michigan, Michigan Government, Opinion
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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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
21 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
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