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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

• Building in a Niche: Smaller Houses Sell

  Yesterday | via Tampa Bay Online 

  For two years, Edwin Letras searched for a home he could afford. Discouraged, he thought his three young children were destined to grow up in a two-bedroom apartment.

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  Related Topix: Hudson, FL, Bayonet Point, FL, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home

• Here's what $225,000 buys in bay area houses

  Monday Jul 14 | via St. Petersburg Times 

  Size: 2,500 square feet Year built: 2006 Description: This barely lived in four-bedroom house, sold by Standard Pacific Homes for $309,000 two years ago, is one of hundreds of short-sale candidates in a Tampa ...

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  Related Topix: Clearwater-Beach, FL, Pasco County, FL, Brandon, FL, Riverview, FL, Home, Mortgage

• Report: Florida May foreclosure activity No. 2 in nation

  Jun 9, 2008 | via Bizjournals 

  May foreclosure activity was 7 percent higher than April and 48 percent greater than May 2007, a report released Friday from RealtyTrac said.

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  Related Topix: Florida, Foreclosures, Hillsborough County, FL

• Counties fight DRI bill that gives developers more time on big projects

  Jun 16, 2008 | via Tampa Bay Business Journal 

  Faced with an ailing economy and one of Florida's worst residential real estate slumps in decades, the state Legislature passed a bill to give developers an extra three years to complete large-scale commercial ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Pasco County, FL

• Grubb & Ellis expands into multi-family as market heats up

  Jun 2, 2008 | via Tampa Bay Business Journal 

  Its Tampa region will be headed by Kelly Oliver, who will serve as investment adviser for the new division.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home, Mortgage, Pinellas County, FL

Regional Headlines

• Drummond Made Its Dorchester Model Larger, Not Smaller

  27 min 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

  7 hrs ago | 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

• He's Gone Again

  14 hrs ago | via WJHG-TV Panama City 

  Florida's lost more jobs than any other state in the nation and ranks second in foreclosures.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Florida, Florida Government

• Florida

  19 hrs ago | via Daily Business Review 

  Their February outlook had been for recovery to start about a year from now, but a new update says things probably won't begin turning around until the end of 2009.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Florida, Florida Government

• Ruminations

  21 hrs ago | via RiskProf 

  Time Magazine takes a look at Florida ... Greetings from Florida, where the winters are great! Otherwise, there's trouble in paradise.

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

National Headlines

• Lawmaker: Extend mortgage protection for vets

  7 min ago | via MilitaryCity.com 

  Two projects aimee at protecting veterans with adjustable rate mortgages and adjustable hybrid rate mortgages could be extended past the end of this year if Rep.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Life, Veteran Affairs, US Politics, Ginny Brown-Waite, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Foreclosures

• Debt consolidation loans to manage debts easily and intelligently

  2 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  The main reason for such a situation is the high credit card bills, loans, and mortgages, etc.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Adverse Credit Remortgage - Refinance Easily

  3 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  This is done mainly to get a new mortgage for a lower rate of interest from a different lender for a better rate.

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

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  17 min ago | via Bubble Meter 

  Many culprits have been fingered for the housing crisis we're in today: unscrupulous mortgage lenders, dishonest borrowers, underregulated financial institutions.

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  Related Topix: UC San Francisco, University of California System, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• House prices 'will keep falling'

  21 min ago | via BBC 

  House prices in the UK and the US are likely to fall for another two years, the chairman of one of the world's most powerful banks has warned.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home