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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
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
Beechview properties in need of developer
Tuesday Jul 8 | via PittsburghLIVE.com
The Urban Redevelopment Authority's board could seek new proposals Thursday for four Beechview properties it has reclaimed from would-be developer Bernardo Katz.
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Related Topix: Allegheny County, PA, Mortgage, Home, Lebanon, PA, Mount Lebanon, PA
Soaring gas prices spur beginnings of a flight from suburbia
Jun 7, 2008 | via Times Leader
When it took $45 to fill the gas tank in Eric Wallace's Honda Civic, he knew his days of driving 40 miles each way to work couldn't last.
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Related Topix: Arnold, PA, Leetsdale, PA, Allegheny County, PA, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home
Plan Hammered Out To Avoid Foreclosures
Thursday Jul 3 | via ThePittsburghChannel
Allegheny County officials and advocates are trying to help residents avoid foreclosure.
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Related Topix: Allegheny County, PA, Foreclosures
Sheriff pushes mortgage relief
Thursday Jul 3 | via ScrippsNews
Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 07/03/2008 - 15:27. Sheriff William P. Mullen offered hope -- and a plan -- this week to Allegheny County, Pa., residents faced with losing their homes through mortgage foreclosure.
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Related Topix: Lawrenceville, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Allegheny County, PA, Foreclosures
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
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
Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update...
12 hrs ago | via KXMB-TV Bismarck
Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update KABUL, Afghanistan Barack Obama says the United States, NATO and Afghanistan must do more to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida. Among other things, the ...
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Related Topix: World News, Kabol, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Asia, Home, Mortgage, Weather, Junction City, CA
Brown pledges aid to Palestinians, calls for settlement freeze
12 min ago | via The Daily Star
OCCUPIED BETHLEHEM: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday pledged new aid to the Palestinians and called for a freeze on Israeli settlement building to bolster the Middle East peace process.
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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East, Israel
17 min ago | via Safehaven
"The end is neigh" was what many despondent investors were starting to believe as the past week kicked off with volatile trading amid concerns that US regional bank IndyMac's demise was a harbinger of many more ...
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Related Topix: Freddie Mac, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance
Treasury Chief Sees 'Months' of Hard Times
21 min ago | via ABC News
The Associated Press 2 comments Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sought to reassure an anxious public Sunday that the banking system is sound, while also bracing people for more troubled times ahead.
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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance
US Treasury Secretary: Economic Fundamentals are Sound
23 min ago | via Voice of America
The Bush administration says the U.S. economy will continue to experience slow growth in the months ahead, but is fundamentally sound.
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Related Topix: Foreclosures, Washington, DC, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance
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