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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

• Puyallup and Pierce County Real Estate Statistics

  Monday Jun 23 | via Puyallup Undressed 

  These statistics are going to be no big surprise to anyone. They mostly represent the same things we have been seeing.

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  Related Topix: Pierce County, WA, Puyallup, WA, Housing

• Homebuyers look to cut commutes and fuel costs

  Thursday Jun 19 | via The Olympian 

  South Sound homebuyers are looking for houses closer to work, to cut the high cost of commuting brought on by record fuel prices, real estate agents and their customers said Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Pierce County, WA, Centralia, WA, Home Buying, Home, Steilacoom, WA

• ABCs: Always Be Closing

  Wednesday Jun 18 | via Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

  Recent data published by the Tacoma News Tribune suggests that the real estate market in DuPont is stable when compared to other communities in Pierce County, and certainly when compared nationally.

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  Related Topix: Seattle Metro, Tacoma Metro, Tacoma, WA, Real Estate, Pierce County, WA, Housing

• Bus station in Tacoma's old Elks temple makes sense

  Sunday Jun 15 | via Tacoma News Tribune 

  To get hyped up over the latest idea to restore Tacoma's old Elks Temple downtown - by converting the ground floor into a grand bus station - we first have to get past all the hype.

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  Related Topix: Portland Metro, Portland Metro, Pierce County, WA, Housing, Tacoma Metro, Tacoma, WA, Opinion

• Median home price falls around Pierce County

  Thursday Jun 12 | via Tacoma News Tribune 

  The month of May provided a little bit of price change variety around Pierce County, giving a few areas year-over-year median home price gains while the countywide number fell as it has for eight of the past ...

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  Related Topix: Pierce County, WA, Housing, Bonney Lake, WA, Eatonville, WA, Lakewood, WA, Roy, WA

Regional Headlines

• Washington's population is growing, but slower than before

  Friday Jul 4 | via Seattle Times 

  The state's population continues to grow, but that growth appears to be slowing because of faltering economies across the nation, according to the state's Office of Financial Management.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Washington

• Population grows, pace slowing

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Seattle Times 

  The state's population continues to grow, but appears to be slowing down because of a faltering economy, according to the state's Office of Financial Management.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Washington

• Governor Gregoire: Seeking To Pull License of Nation's Biggest Mortgage Lender

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via KCPQ 

  Governor Christine Gregoire says Countrywide Home Loans will not operate in Washington.

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  Related Topix: Washington, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Operation Malicious Mortgage Indictments in Washington

  Thursday Jun 19 | via Federal Bureau of Investigation 

  SIX INDICTED FOR MORTGAGE FRAUD IN OPERATION "MALICIOUS MORTGAGE" Lawyer, Mortgage Broker and Others Conspire in $8.5 million Fraud, "Flipping" Dozens of Houses Six people were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury ...

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  Related Topix: Washington, Sammamish, WA, Seattle Metro, Seattle Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• What do Governor Gregoire's actions mean for local Countrywide...

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via Seattle's Rain City Real Estate Guide 

  What do Governor Gregoire's actions mean for local Countrywide employees and short selling homeowners? June 25, 2008 Is Governor Gregoire just a little too late in regards to Countrywide's lending tactics? ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Washington, Washington Government, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Buffalo Ranks High in Big Cities with Low Rent

  20 min ago | via Br city 

  Renting homes and apartments is becoming more popular nationwide due to stricter rules in obtaining a mortgage.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Online Newspaper

  21 min ago | via The Bangladesh Observer 

  NNN: We Make Newspapers National. One Stop Access to Major USA Papers in Print and Online .

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Most folks in Otisville understand change

  27 min ago | via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record 

  We are working stiffs who wonder how on earth we will pay for gas, mortgages and heat.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Orange County, NY, Otisville, NY, Middletown, NY

• Housing market in Welsh town shows wider woes

  29 min ago | via Arizona Daily Star 

  During a bustling lunch hour in this Welsh commuter town, 25-year-old Richard Williams is one of the few who pause to look at properties for sale in a real-estate agent's window - and he isn't buying.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Las Vegas, NV, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Chesapeake makes four major land buys in area

  36 min ago | via Fort Worth Star-Telegram 

  Fort Worth-based Vintage Capital Partners has sold nearly 15 of the 20 acres that it bought along White Settlement Road and Nursery Lane to a Virginia investment firm, which then flipped it to a division of ...

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  Related Topix: Wichita Falls Metro, Wichita Falls, TX, Housing, Dean, TX, Horseshoe Bay, TX