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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

• Political hopefuls court black elected officials

  Saturday Jun 21 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Several statewide and congressional candidates - - only one of them a Republican - - appeared before the Georgia Association of Black Elected Officials on Saturday in hopes of riding the wave of ballots ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, John Barrow, US House of Representatives, Democrat

• 7 charged in alleged mortgage fraud scheme

  Thursday Jun 19 | via The Macon Telegraph 

  Seven people were charged Wednesday in an alleged mortgage fraud scheme, in which prices were inflated to obtain loans including $135,000 for a storage room fraudulently sold as a condominium unit.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Atlanta, GA

• Seven face charges in mortgage fraud

  Jun 19, 2008 | via Augusta Chronicle Online 

  Seven people were charged Wednesday in an alleged mortgage fraud scheme in which prices were inflated to obtain loans including $135,000 for a storage room fraudulently sold as a condominium unit. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Atlanta, GA

• Ajc 2008 Home Sales Report: Pain in housing market

  Jun 11, 2008 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  In 2007, we all learned a hard lesson: the housing market can head south, sometimes fast.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Housing, Clarkston, GA, Foreclosures, Dekalb County, GA, Atlanta Metro

• Ajc 2008 Home Sales Report: Price decline cuts wide swath throughout city

  Jun 11, 2008 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  In October 2005, the tidy two-bedroom, one-bath home at 868 Rochelle Drive in southwest Atlanta's Oakland City neighborhood sold for $118,000. The figure seemed reasonable, even for a small home in a ...

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  Related Topix: Clarkston, GA, Real Estate, Housing, Dekalb County, GA, Atlanta Metro

Regional Headlines

• Lesbian candidate advances to Georgia House runoff

  Friday | via Southern Voice 

  Keisha Waites made it to an Aug. 5 runoff after taking second in a crowded field for House District 61 while Kevin Clark lost his bid for state Senate District 2. Keisha Waites is one step closer to making ...

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  Related Topix: East Point, GA, Mortgage, Atlanta Metro, Georgia

• A Texas warning for Georgia banks

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Several Georgia banks dominate a recent ranking of the nation's riskiest financial institutions based on a measure known as the "Texas ratio," which attempts to gauge how likely they will run into deep ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Alpharetta, GA, Georgia

• Superior Court Clerk Candidates Q&A

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Rome News - Tribune 

  I am a Floyd County native and I began my public service career in 1975 as a deputy sheriff with the Floyd County Sheriffs Department.

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  Related Topix: York (Pennsylvania State University System), Commerce (Texas A&M University System), Texas A&M University System, Georgia, Real Estate

• Tourism groups get grants for projects

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Augusta Chronicle 

  The Augusta Canal Authority was among 11 tourism organizations named Thursday to share $90,000 in grants from the Georgia Department of Economic Development.

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  Related Topix: Georgia, Marketing, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• New Prudential Realty Office Open in Roswell

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via Atlanta Real Estate Forum.com 

  Prudential Georgia Realty, which is consistently named one of the 10 most productive affiliates in the 2,100-office Prudential Real Estate Affiliates, Inc.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Roswell, GA, Georgia, Cobb County, GA, Atlanta, GA

National Headlines

• Democratic challenger trails Biggert in funds

  6 min ago | via Lincoln-Way Sun 

  Democrat Scott Harper pushed his second-quarter fundraising above that of his opponent Judy Biggert by loaning himself $50,000. Not counting the loan, the 46-year-old Oxford student received $228,192 in ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Illinois, Will County, IL

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  7 min ago | via The Topeka Capital-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, US News, Housing, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Clarkstown offering new incentives to retain volunteers

  4 hrs ago | via Journal News 

  Clarkstown is offering all emergency service volunteers in the town discounted passes to the popular mini-golf course at Germonds Park.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Nanuet, NY

• Official's son got DSS broker fees, some while working for county

  4 hrs ago | via Journal News 

  MOUNT VERNON - A real estate company run by the son of city marshal and former Democratic boss Serapher Conn-Halevi collected $162,000 in private-vendor fees from the Westchester County Department of Social ...

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  Related Topix: Westchester County, NY, New York Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Governor needs to work with Pelosi to save Medi-Cal

  10 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