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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
Soaring gas prices spur beginnings of a flight from suburbia
Jun 7, 2008 | via Times Leader
When it took $45 to fill the gas tank in Eric Wallace's Honda Civic, he knew his days of driving 40 miles each way to work couldn't last.
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Related Topix: Arnold, PA, Leetsdale, PA, Allegheny County, PA, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home
Pittsburgh Housing Market Continues To Slump
Friday Jun 20 | via ThePittsburghChannel
Pittsburgh's slumping housing market is showing no sign of a rebound. In May, sales dropped 21 percent, which is the steepest the city has seen this year.
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Related Topix: Freedom, PA, Beaver County, PA, Pittsburgh Metro, Housing, Beaver, PA, Real Estate
CDC proposes interest only mortgage payments
Jun 18, 2008 | via KnowledgePlex.org News
Jun. 17--FORD CITY -- The Greater Ford City Community Development Corp. has proposed a temporary interest-only payment plan to the banks holding mortgages on borough-owned riverside industrial property in the ...
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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Kittanning, PA, Ford City, PA, Armstrong County, PA
Pittsburgh-area home foreclosures rise nearly 7 percent
Apr 25, 2008 | via Times Leader
A company that tracks real estate transactions in the Pittsburgh region says home foreclosures rose 6.9 percent in the first quarter of 2008.
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Related Topix: Pittsburgh Metro, Foreclosures, Beaver, PA, Allegheny County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA
Home foreclosures in Pittsburgh region set new record
Apr 25, 2008 | via PittsburghLIVE.com
Foreclosures during the January-March quarter of 2008 set a new record in the five-county Pittsburgh region with 1,187 houses lost by homeowners through this action, a local real estate tracking company ...
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Related Topix: Pittsburgh, PA, Foreclosures, Allegheny County, PA
State Capitol Roundup for July 18
Yesterday | via Tony Phyrillas
I thought the Legislature was on its 2-month summer vacation, but it appears some lawmakers are still in Harrisburg.
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Related Topix: Harrisburg (Pennsylvania State University System), Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Home, Mortgage
Wachovia's Brokerage Inspected by State Regulators in Auction-Rate Probe
Thursday Jul 17 | via Bloomberg
Wachovia Corp. 's securities division was inspected by a team of regulators from more than five states who delivered subpoenas today as part of a probe into the company's sales of auction-rate bonds.
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Related Topix: Marketing, Advertising, Boston University, Pennsylvania
Wednesday Jul 16 | via Reading Eagle/Reading Times
I've taken shots at the Pennsylvania Department of Banking for hiding behind a legal gag and refusing to say what really happened in the Wesley Snyder case.
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Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Federal Prisons, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance
Consumer Prices Jump by the Most Since 2005 on Surge in Fuel, Food Costs
Wednesday Jul 16 | via Bloomberg
Prices paid by U.S. consumers jumped in June by the most since 2005 on spiraling costs for fuel and food, intensifying the pressure on households struggling with falling home prices and the credit crunch.
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Related Topix: Housing, Ben Bernanke, Pennsylvania
Economic Outlook: Midwestern banks to see tough round of quarterly results
Sunday Jul 13 | via MarketWatch
A wave of gloomy results from the second quarter are expected to be the highlight of reports that Midwestern regional banks will issue in the coming days, analysts say.
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Related Topix: Housing, Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, US Bancorp, Marshall University, Pennsylvania
Governor needs to work with Pelosi to save Medi-Cal
2 min ago | via San Jose Mercury News
If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to save health care coverage for poor and disabled Californians, he should get House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the phone - and soon.
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Related Topix: Elderly, Family, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Opinion
Loan program may help borrowers in trouble
3 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle
Although it has hundreds of pages and dozens of separate initiatives - including revamping federal oversight of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - the centerpiece is a $300 billion program designed to ...
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Related Topix: Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance
Editorial: Skeptical eyes on reverse mortgages
3 min ago | via Star Tribune
Swanson, FBI are right to urge caution. Last update: July 19, 2008 - 5:08 PM A NEW MARKET "You have a lot of unemployed mortgage people, brokers, bankers who are in trouble, looking for the next big profit ...
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Related Topix: Health, AARP, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Home, Mortgage, Opinion
Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices
3 min ago | via Athens Banner-Herald
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
Realtors Get Creative During Summertime Sales Blues
4 min ago | via Banker & Tradesman
Boston-based Charlesgate Realty Group recently had a catered open house for 290 Marlborough St.
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Related Topix: Real Estate, Back Bay (Boston, MA), Boston, MA
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