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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Fitch Rates Baltimore County, Maryland's $36.7MM COPs 'AA+'; Outlook Stable

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via PR-inside.com 

  The COPs are scheduled to price via competitive sale on July 29, 2008. The COPs will finance the acquisition of heavy equipment for use in the county's parks and public safety units as well as information ...

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  Related Topix: Towson, MD, University of Maryland System, Baltimore County, MD, Baltimore (University of Maryland System), Foreclosures

• Rental market surging as home sales, prices fall

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Baltimore Examiner 

  As home prices continue to drop, would-be buyers are waiting on the sideline, and local real estate watchers said many are waiting in rental properties.

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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Housing, Real Estate, Baltimore Metro

• Helping houses remain homes

  Sunday Jul 20 | via The Baltimore Sun 

  Two years ago, Germaine Thomas and her husband, Anthony, moved with their five children into a house in an upscale neighborhood in Prince George's County .

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  Related Topix: Housing, Morgan State University

• House Winner Fails To Find Buyer

  Thursday Jul 17 | via WJZ Baltimore, Maryland News Weather 

  There's little relief for those trying to sell homes in our current economy. Kelly McPherson reports, selling a house is getting tougher even if you won the house for a hundred dollar charity raffle.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Hagerstown, MD, Home Listing, Big Pool, MD, Washington County, MD, Baltimore County, MD

• For skinny houses, a chilly reception

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Baltimore Sun 

  It looks almost like an average-size house that's been sliced in half. At 12 feet wide, the neat, new single-family home is squeezed onto the slenderest of strips of land on a Brooklyn Park street of modest, ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Baltimore County, MD, Arnold, MD, Anne Arundel County, MD, Brooklyn Park, MD

Regional Headlines

• Frederick County wants to tackle vacant homes, shaggy lawns

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via WTOP 

  Frederick County might step in to help alleviate the housing crisis. Next week, the Frederick County Commissioners plan to discuss a new law to prevent overgrown lawns.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Maryland

• Foreclosure rules take effect Wednesday

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Daily Record 

  New foreclosure-procedure rules go into effect Wednesday that require lenders to provide direct notice to delinquent homeowners before taking possession of and selling their homes.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Maryland Government, Maryland, Foreclosures

• Foreclosure in court

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via The Baltimore Sun 

  Maryland's highest court will convene today for a hearing on changes to foreclosure rules that would conform with new legislation that gives homeowners more notification and a longer waiting period before their ... 11 comments

  Related Topix: Maryland Government, Maryland, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• The Daily Dose: Monday

  Monday Jul 21 | via SNL Financial 

  Mapletree Logistics Trust Management Ltd., manager of Mapletree Logistics Trust, announced that the company's total amount distributable for the quarter was S$22.6 million, an increase of 28.2% from S$17.7 ...

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  Related Topix: World News, United Arab Emirates, Middle East, Maryland, Real Estate

• An economic prescription

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Baltimore Sun 

  Reading recent headlines, it might be easy to conclude that the economy is in a death spiral. 21 comments

  Related Topix: Maryland Government, Maryland, Weather, Housing, Opinion

National Headlines

• Senate Passes Housing Rescue Bill, Bush to Sign

  3 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

  6 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

  6 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

  7 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

  7 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