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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Jun 19, 2008 | 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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Local Headlines

• Foreclosures soar in Pioneer Valley

  Yesterday | via MassLive.com 

  Lenders foreclosed on 1,027 properties in Hampden County during the last fiscal year, almost double the number from the previous year.

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• Talk

  Wednesday | via MassLive.com 

  Donald E. Ashe , Hampden County Register of Deeds, tells reporters today that foreclosures hit a record level in fiscal year 2008.

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• Hampden County experiences all-time record foreclosures

  Wednesday | via WWLP 

  The Hampden County Register of Deeds released his figures for the 2008 fiscal year that ended July and it shows a lot of people still losing their homes.

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• Foreclosures hit record in Hampden County

  Wednesday | via MassLive.com 

  By JIM KINNEY jkinney@repub.com SPRINGFIELD - Lenders foreclosed on 1,027 properties in Hampden County from July of 2007 to the end of last month, breaking a record for mortgage failings set in 1989.

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• Home prices slide in Pioneer Valley

  Friday Jul 18 | via MassLive.com 

  The median price of a single-family home in the Pioneer Valley fell 3.7 percent in the second quarter of 2008 to $208,000 compared with April, May and June 2007.

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  Related Topix: Longmeadow, MA, Greenfield, MA, Housing, Hampden County, MA, Real Estate, Springfield, MA

Regional Headlines

• Mass. woman kills self before home foreclosure: police

  Yesterday | via Slam Sports 

  A 53-year-old wife and mother fatally shot herself shortly after faxing a letter to her mortgage company saying that by the time they foreclosed on her house that day, she would be dead.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Personal Finance, Mortgage, Winter Sports, Curling

• Pond View auction postponed

  Tuesday | via GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA 

  A foreclosure auction of the last, unbuilt piece of Pond View Village - aimed at giving the chief lender a saleable title free of more than $1.5 million owed to contractors for the state and defaulting ...

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• Foreclosures continue to climb in Massachusetts

  Monday Jul 21 | via Boston Business Journal 

  New Massachusetts residential foreclosures reached a temporary lull in June because of new regulations forcing a 90-day waiting period.

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• Mass. foreclosures in holding pattern

  Monday Jul 21 | via The Boston Globe 

  Massachusetts foreclosure filings dropped 85 percent in June from a year ago, largely because of a recent change in foreclosure regulations, said ForeclosuresMass.com, a Framingham-based provider of ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Foreclosures

• Mass. home foreclosures more than double in May

  Sunday Jul 6 | via EDGEptown.com Style Feed v1.0 

  Home foreclosure deeds more than doubled in Massachusetts last month, although a new state law has yielded a temporary decline in foreclosure petitions, the first step in the process.

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National Headlines

• Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday

  3 min ago | via KTVN Reno 

  The Senate has cleared the last hurdle to passing a massive housing rescue bill.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, George Bush, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Foreclosure Filings More Than Double

  4 min ago | via KCCI 

  The number of households facing the foreclosure process more than doubled in the second quarter compared to a year ago.

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• Housing bill clears hurdle, vote seen Saturday

  4 min ago | via Reuters 

  The U.S. Senate voted on Friday to limit debate on a bill aimed at shoring up both the housing market and mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, paving the way for a final vote expected on ...

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• Supervisors will make decision on SPARC funds

  4 min ago | via Southwest Times 

  The Pulaski County Board of Supervisors will decide Monday night whether to accept an agreement for $1 million in funding to cover another year of low-interest loans for first-time home buyers.

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• Durables orders, Freddie Mac provide firm view

  5 min ago | via Reuters 

  New orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods rose unexpectedly in June on a surge in defense orders, while a gauge of business investment was also higher than forecast in signs of economic resilience, a ...

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