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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

Regional Headlines

• North Mississippi home builder developing Steeplechase near Oxford

  Jan 15, 2007 | via Memphis Business Journal 

  About 80 miles southeast of Memphis is a small Mississippi University town that is booming, and Tommy White wanted to make sure he had a piece of the action with his new Steeplechase development, located ...

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  Related Topix: University, MS, Batesville, MS, University of Tennessee System, Memphis (University of Tennessee System), Housing, Mississippi, Lafayette County, MS

• Down payment aid programs scrutinized

  Sunday Jul 6 | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  Local housing experts say down payment assistance programs aren't the best way to purchase a home and build equity, but they recognize their importance in Mississippi because of residents' low median income.

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

• Miss. Realtors Required To Disclose Meth Lab Houses

  Saturday Jul 5 | via WAPT.com 

  Mississippi home buyers will soon be able to find out if the house they want to purchase was used as a meth lab.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Real Estate

• Miss., La. To Use Mortgage Licensing System

  Friday Jun 27 | via WAPT 

  Mississippi and Louisiana are among the six states that will start using the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System next Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Mortgage, Home

• Home sales plummet despite lower prices

  Thursday Jun 26 | via The Mississippi Press 

  From January to May, Jackson County homes sold for an average of 20 percent less compared to that same time period last year, local Realtors and Multiple Listing Service data say.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi, Foreclosures, Latimer, MS, Hurley, MS, Big Point, MS, Wade, MS

National Headlines

• Downtown Sacramento Real Estate Market Report

  3 min ago | via Sacramento Real Estate Blog 

  Real estate in Downtown Sacramento continued to command top dollar in May, with sold price per square foot running more than twice as high as the county-wide average, though this year's crop of homes was much ...

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  Related Topix: Sacramento, CA, Sacramento Metro, Foreclosures, Events

• 15-Year Mortgage or a 30-Year Mortgage?

  3 min ago | via About.com 

  The traditional 30-year mortgage has become the standard method of borrowing for most people, but the 15-year mortgage is still a viable solution for many people.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  3 min ago | via KCBY-TV Coos Bay 

  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

• Gregg, Sununu vote for housing bill

  4 min ago | via The Boston Globe 

  Sens. John Sununu and Judd Gregg were on the winning side Saturday as the Senate approved a plan to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to save mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac .

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• How they voted: Senate roll call on housing bill

  5 min ago | via Times Leader 

  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, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage