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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

Local Headlines

• For desperate home sellers, auctions may be the answer

  Yesterday | via The Tennessean 

  Despite the soft real estate market, Beazer Homes USA Inc. recently sold 26 beachfront condos on the Jersey Shore in 75 minutes.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Construction, Beazer Homes USA, Housing

• Polk Housing Slump Keeps On With Low June Permits

  Friday | via The Ledger 

  Area builders are keeping a low profile as the housing slump drags on. A total 217 single-family home permits were pulled last month in Polk County, falling from 321 the year before and 265 in May, according to ...

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  Related Topix: Polk County, FL, Housing, Lakeland, FL, Winter Haven, FL, Davenport, FL

• Unable to Make Mortgage Payments, Many Give Up

  Sunday Jul 13 | via The Ledger 

  Published: Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 7:40 a.m. Last Modified: Sunday, July 13, 2008 at 8:17 a.m. NEED HELP? Florida Legal Services and the Florida Bar Association have established a hotline to provide free legal ...

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  Related Topix: Polk County, FL, Auburndale, FL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Lakeland, FL, Lakeland College

• Building for Poor Has Stopped with Lack of Mortgages

  Monday Jul 7 | via The Ledger 

  Published: Monday, July 7, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, July 7, 2008 at 6:13 a.m. SCOTT WHEELER LEDGER PHOTOS EMPTY LOTS sit at LakeRidge in Lakeland.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Lakeland, FL

• Wallers Don't Want To Leave The Neighborhood, Just Their House

  Saturday Jul 5 | via The Ledger 

  Published: Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 5, 2008 at 9:01 a.m. ERNST PETERS THE LEDGER Jimmy Waller and his wife, Shannon, are pictured with their daughter, Addison, in front ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Lakeland, FL, Home Listing

Regional Headlines

• Foreclosures Will Moderate as Home Prices Continue to Fall

  4 hrs ago | via Seeking Alpha 

  There will come a time when most of the homeowners that intend to walk away from their mortgages have done so.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Construction, Toll Brothers, Florida

• Housing headaches: California and Florida still top foreclosure list

  15 hrs ago | via KansasCity.com 

  California and Florida cities continue to account for most of the nation’s foreclosure activity, according to the monthly RealtyTrac report that monitors 230 metropolitan areas.RealtyTrac reported in its ...

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  Related Topix: University of California System, UC Merced, Cape Coral, FL, Fort Myers, FL, Miami Metro, Florida, Foreclosures

• Crist should stay away until news improves

  19 hrs ago | via Palm Beach Post 

  If I were Charlie Crist, I'd extend my stay in Europe. Our governor, in case you didn't know it, has been leading a group of 90 business and government officials on a European trade mission to England, France, ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Florida, Florida Government

• Drummond Made Its Dorchester Model Larger, Not Smaller

  23 hrs ago | via The Ledger 

  In today's much-maligned real estate market, the Drummond Co. decided it had to reboot a new model of homes for another phase of the Grasslands Golf and Country Club.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Florida

• Pro Bono Foreclosure Prevention Project

  Yesterday | via The Town-Crier Newspaper 

  Pro Bono Foreclosure Prevention Project The Florida Bar Foundation and Florida Legal Services are seeking members of the Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar to assist homeowners ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Florida, Royal Palm Beach, FL

National Headlines

• Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update...

  12 hrs ago | via KXMB-TV Bismarck 

  Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update KABUL, Afghanistan Barack Obama says the United States, NATO and Afghanistan must do more to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida. Among other things, the ...

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  Related Topix: World News, Kabol, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Asia, Home, Mortgage, Weather, Junction City, CA

• Brown pledges aid to Palestinians, calls for settlement freeze

  13 min ago | via The Daily Star 

  OCCUPIED BETHLEHEM: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday pledged new aid to the Palestinians and called for a freeze on Israeli settlement building to bolster the Middle East peace process.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East, Israel

• Words from the

  17 min ago | via Safehaven 

  "The end is neigh" was what many despondent investors were starting to believe as the past week kicked off with volatile trading amid concerns that US regional bank IndyMac's demise was a harbinger of many more ...

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  Related Topix: Freddie Mac, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Treasury Chief Sees 'Months' of Hard Times

  21 min ago | via ABC News 

  The Associated Press 2 comments Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sought to reassure an anxious public Sunday that the banking system is sound, while also bracing people for more troubled times ahead.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• US Treasury Secretary: Economic Fundamentals are Sound

  23 min ago | via Voice of America 

  The Bush administration says the U.S. economy will continue to experience slow growth in the months ahead, but is fundamentally sound.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Washington, DC, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance