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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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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Housing, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Brevard County Mls

  13 hrs ago | via Baker County Standard 

  Free search of over 4,000 properties for sale updated every 30 minutes. Oceanfront, river, or walk to the beach, golf course course living, 1031 tax exchanges and senior specialist.

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  Related Topix: Brevard County, FL, Home Listing, Real Estate, Vero Beach, FL

• Eurobank a secured creditor in Hialeah developer's bankruptcy

  Monday Jul 21 | via South Florida Business Journal 

  Coral Gables-based Eurobank is a secured creditor in the Chapter 11 filing of a Hialeah developer over an apartment complex in Melbourne.

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  Related Topix: Melbourne, FL, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Brevard County, FL

• Our view: Asleep at the wheel

  Yesterday | via FloridaToday.com 

  Even more proof Florida should be known as the rip-off state when it comes to consumer protection.

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  Related Topix: Brevard County, FL, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Home sales decline 5% from 2007

  Yesterday | via FloridaToday.com 

  Existing home sales in Brevard County fell 5 percent in June over the previous year, while the median price dropped 16 percent, according to figures released Thursday by the Florida Association of Realtors.

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  Related Topix: Brevard County, FL, Home, Home Selling, Housing, Real Estate, Mortgage

• Gaining a different perspective

  Yesterday | via The Journal Record 

  Spending the past week along Florida's famous "Space Coast" was a good experience for me to get away from Oklahoma City and gain a better feel how the commercial and residential real estate markets are doing in ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Brevard County, FL, Real Estate

Regional Headlines

• House Swaping

  17 hrs ago | via WSVN-TV Miami Beach 

  In the movie the Holiday, two women on opposite sides of the globe meet online and end up swapping homes for vacation.

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  Related Topix: Florida, Real Estate

• Housing woes still stinging banks

  15 hrs ago | via Palm Beach Post 

  The troubled Florida real estate market is continuing to cause major losses for in-state and out-of-state banks, earnings reports showed this week.

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  Related Topix: Seacoast Banking Corporation of Florida, Banking, Financial Services, Real Estate, Housing, Florida

• Fitch Rates Florida Forever $156.7MM Rev Bonds 'A+'

  20 hrs ago | via PR-inside.com 

  Fitch has also affirmed the 'A+' rating of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's approximately $2.5 billion outstanding Preservation 2000 and Florida Forever bonds, $200 million of outstanding ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, Florida, Florida Government, Mortgage

• Stats show mortgage delinquencies still rising in S. Florida

  22 hrs ago | via McClatchy DC 

  The number of South Florida homeowners behind on their mortgages nearly doubled in June compared to a year ago, as home prices continued a precipitous decline and interest rates this week reached their highest ...

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  Related Topix: Florida, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Housing

• Florida fourth in foreclosure rate

  Yesterday | via Jacksonville Business Journal 

  Florida again had the fourth highest foreclosure rate in the second quarter and the second highest total of any state, according to data released by RealtyTrac Inc.

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  Related Topix: Florida, Foreclosures, Jacksonville Metro, Fort Lauderdale Metro, Fort Lauderdale, FL

National Headlines

• Senate Passes Housing Rescue Bill, Bush to Sign

  5 min ago | via WCOH-AM Newnan 

  The Congress approved a massive housing market rescue bill on Saturday, offering emergency financing to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, creating a new regulator for the mortgage titans and setting up a $300 billion ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, George Bush

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  7 min ago | via Kndu.com 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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

• Alexander Backs Housing Bill, Which Passes 72-13

  7 min ago | via Chattanoogan.com 

  He said the Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 includes the following provisions: Provides a refundable tax credit of up to $7,500 for first-time homebuyers, and a standard property tax deduction for taxpayers ...

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

• Mike's Blog Roundup

  8 min ago | via Crooks and Liars 

  Years of proxy wars with the USSR created demons that US arrogance thought could never turn and rend it.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Metro

• How they voted: Senate roll call on housing bill

  9 min ago | via Alabama Live 

  The 72-13 roll call Saturday by which the Senate passed a bill that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to prevent mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from failing.

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