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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

• Brazoria County

  Saturday Jul 5 | via The Bulletin 

  Find Brazoria foreclosures from a large database of foreclosure listings in the country from ForeclosureFreeSearch.com. www.foreclosurefreesearch.com Galveston County Collection of more than 200,000 maps of ...

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  Related Topix: Brazoria, TX, Foreclosures, Brazoria County, TX, Galveston County, TX, Houston Metro, Pearland, TX

• Brazoria County Appraisal

  Saturday Jul 5 | via The Bulletin 

  Brazoria County Appraisal

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  Related Topix: Brazoria County, TX, Brazoria, TX, Foreclosures

• Brazoria County Real Estate

  Saturday Jul 5 | via The Bulletin 

  Search the actual MLS real estate listings for Brazoria County at MultipleListing.com; Just select the link for your area to view up-to-the-minute listings.

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  Related Topix: Brazoria County, TX, Foreclosures, Real Estate, Brazoria, TX

• Area Realtor dies in Hwy. 36 crash

  May 30, 2008 | via The Herald-Coaster 

  A Fort Bend County real estate agent was killed in a three-car wreck Thursday afternoon near this Brazoria County town.

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  Related Topix: Fort Bend County, TX, Real Estate, Brazoria County, TX, Rosenberg, TX

• County can help close on 1st home

  May 19, 2008 | via The Facts 

  Low- to moderate-income Brazoria County families may qualify for up to $5,000 to help them with closing costs on the purchase of their first home.

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  Related Topix: Brazoria County, TX, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• Steps to ease housing crisis

  8 hrs ago | via Houston Community Newspapers Online 

  The housing crisis is eroding the confidence of our nation's homeowners, financial institutions, and investors at an accelerating rate.

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

• Local banking experts say Texas banks are stable

  8 hrs ago | via News 8 Austin 

  For Banker Bill Lemens, regular check-ups from customers came following the recent failure of California-based IndyMac bank.

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  Related Topix: Texas, Mortgage, Home

• Baylor University Study Shows Depressed Housing Market Demands Change in Lead Generation Techniques

  17 hrs ago | via Earth Times 

  WACO, Texas, July 18 Baylor-housing-study WACO, Texas , /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A down housing market calls on real estate agents to change their tactics, according to Dr.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Texas, Marketing, Baylor University, Real Estate

• State housing agency salutes year's top lenders for first time homebuyer programs

  21 hrs ago | via KRGV-TV Weslaco 

  Acknowledging that its goal of increasing homeownership rates among low to moderate income Texans depends on strong partnerships with local lenders, the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs today ...

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  Related Topix: Houston Metro, Houston Metro, Texas, Home, Mortgage

• Dallas-Fort Worth preowned home sales fall 15% in 2008

  Yesterday | via Quick 

  Early hopes for a spring rebound in Dallas-area home sales didn't pan out. All but a few area residential districts experienced fewer home purchases in the first half of this year, according to the latest ...

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  Related Topix: Fort Worth Metro, Texas, Lancaster, TX, Mesquite, TX, Dallas Metro, Housing

National Headlines

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  13 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'

  18 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

  22 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?

  23 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

  23 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