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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

• FBI steps up mortgage-fraud fight

  Jun 12, 2008 | via Inman 

  The following is a real estate news roundup: FBI shifts more resources to mortgage fraud The FBI has ordered agents in 26 field offices in areas hard hit by mortgage fraud to put investigations of other ...

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  Related Topix: Marketing, New York Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Free seminar on avoiding foreclosur

  May 28, 2008 | via Nevada Daily Mail/Sunday Nevada Herald 

  Where: Classroom B on 2nd floor of Bowman Building Phone number: For reservations, call 667-2274. Description: Free seminar on avoiding foreclosure, 7 p.m., Classroom B on the second floor of the Bowman ...

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• Southern Nevada Economy: Unpaid property taxes mount

  May 24, 2008 | via Las Vegas Review Journal 

  As if waning taxable sales and slumping gaming revenue weren't enough, you can add Clark County property taxes to the catalog of levies feeling the economic slowdown.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Clark County, NV

• Mortgage Fraud Up 176%, FBI Reports

  May 21, 2008 | via ConsumerAffairs.Com 

  Mortgage fraud is on the rise and consumers need to be wary of the many scams that often surface in the wake of this crime.

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  Related Topix: US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mortgage

• FBI boosts mortgage fraud caseload

  May 14, 2008 | via Inman 

  The FBI had more than 1,200 mortgage fraud investigations open at the end of fiscal year 2007, a 47 percent increase from the previous year but still a small fraction of suspected cases.

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  Related Topix: Illinois, Foreclosures, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation

Regional Headlines

• Zweifel launches first television ad

  Yesterday | via The Turner Report 

  Democratic State Treasurer candidate Clint Zweifel has become the first candidate for that office to launch a television ad campaign this year.

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  Related Topix: Missouri Government, Missouri, Healthcare Law, Law, Mortgage, Home

• Economy not looking so bad, as viewed from the farm

  Sunday Jul 20 | via Tuscola County Advertiser 

  The U.S. housing crisis looks pretty distant when viewed from the cornfields of middle America, although land values pushed up by record commodity prices also evoke past booms that ended in bust.

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  Related Topix: Missouri, Home, Mortgage

• Matthew Wilson Learns His Fate

  Friday Jul 18 | via MyFox St. Louis 

  Matthew Wilson convicted of restraining, robbing and sexually abusing a real estate agent last year in St.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Missouri

• Springfield hosts Missouri Association of REALTORS® meeting

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Springfield News Leader 

  REALTORS from all over Missouri traveled to Springfield for the Missouri Association of REALTORS Quarterly Business Conference June 24 through June 26.

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  Related Topix: University of Illinois System, Springfield Metro, Springfield, MO, Missouri, Real Estate, Foreclosures

• Mortgage Meltdown

  Monday Jul 14 | via KMIZ 

  Mortgage buyers Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are still working to escape the fate fellow lender IndyMac suffered Friday.

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

National Headlines

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  2 min ago | via PhillyBurbs.com 

  Congress passed the most significant housing legislation in decades Saturday, offering help to struggling homeowners and seeking to stabilize a troubled housing market that has dragged down the economy.

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

• Congress approves housing bill

  3 min ago | via MSN Money 

  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: Housing, George Bush, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, US News, US Politics, Foreclosures

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  3 min ago | via KRON 4 

  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

• Federal Regulators Close Two More Banks

  3 min ago | via 97.5 FM 

  Federal regulators have closed two banks in the West, saying they were undercapitalized due to the poor performance of home mortgage loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Reno Metro, Reno, NV

• Senate Passes Housing Rescue Bill, Bush to Sign

  4 min ago | via 97.5 FM 

  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