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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

• Briefing

  Yesterday | via The Morning Call 

  A former Berks County mortgage broker sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for a scheme that cost customers millions will appeal his sentence.

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  Related Topix: Berks County, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Federal Prisons, Oley, PA, Westmoreland County, PA

• Westmoreland Co. mortgage broker accused of fraud

  Friday | via York Dispatch 

  Federal prosecutors say a Westmoreland County man diverted nearly $1 million in mortgage loans for personal use.

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  Related Topix: Westmoreland County, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Totteridge developer's homes set for auction

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  Ten partially built homes behind the first green at the Totteridge Golf Club could be auctioned off Sept.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Howard, PA, Allegheny County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Greensburg, PA

• Keller Williams Realty to buy Ligonier business

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Pittsburgh Tribune 

  A group of real estate industry professionals that includes the owner of the Keller Williams Realty North brokerage in Pine is in negotiations to buy Glenn Cook Real Estate, a well-known company based in ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Westmoreland County, PA, Ligonier, PA

• Murin becomes president of mortgage association

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  Joseph J. Murin of Collier has become the 16th president of the Government National Mortgage Association, one of the nation's major secondary mortgage agencies, and known as Ginnie Mae.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, George Bush

Regional Headlines

• 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

• Don Spatz,

  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

National Headlines

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  4 min ago | via Rapid City Journal 

  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, Housing, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Cobb County

  5 min ago | via Baker County Standard 

  Looking for homes in Cobb County ? Carol Moson, CRS with RE/MAX greater Atlanta can provide you access to every available listing.

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  Related Topix: Cobb County, GA, Atlanta Metro, Atlanta, GA, Douglasville, GA, Foreclosures

• How to Get a Mortgage in Today's Market

  6 min ago | via Tideland News 

  Whether you're buying your first home or looking for a larger home, now may be the time to act.

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  Related Topix: Credit Card Debt, Personal Finance, Home Buying, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Home Listing

• Buck County

  6 min ago | via Baker County Standard 

  Free Access to the Pennsylvania MLS. Run and save your own searches using our unique mapping tool to find all Homes For Sale in The Bucks County Pennsylvania area.

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  Related Topix: Bucks County, PA, Foreclosures, Bensalem, PA, Philadelphia, PA

• Peter Boutell, Lending a Hand: Today's most critical measure in mortgage lending

  8 min ago | via Santa Cruz Sentinel 

  The "mortgage meltdown," as the press calls it, officially started last August but the beginnings of it were being felt by mid-2006. According to the Implode-O-Meter [ml-implode.com], 266 mortgage lenders have ...

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  Related Topix: University of California System, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Santa Cruz Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Santa Cruz County, CA