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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

• Homeowners facing new headaches on old construction

  Yesterday | via South Florida Sun-Sentinel 

  When Gene Klein paid a contractor $18,000 to install a permanent generator at his Coral Springs home two summers ago, he thought the company had all the necessary permits and inspections.

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  Related Topix: Coral Springs, FL, Broward County, FL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Margate, FL

• Foreclosure? Doing Nothing Is No Option

  Friday Jul 4 | via Wellington Town-Crier 

  Foreclosure? Doing Nothing Is No Option Ron Bukley 04.JUL.08 The worst thing people who receive a foreclosure notice can do is nothing, said Wellington attorney Neal Taslitz, one of several experts on the ...

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  Related Topix: Loxahatchee, FL, Palm Beach County, FL, Royal Palm Beach, FL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Legal feud shows a foreclosure can take forever

  Jan 7, 2008 | via South Florida Business Journal 

  Somebody has been trying to foreclose on Joseph Lents' Boca Raton home for five years.

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  Related Topix: Boca Raton, FL, Palm Beach County, FL, Deerfield Beach, FL, West Palm Beach Metro, Foreclosures

• As economy slows, financial hurt grows to levels not seen since '80s

  Monday Jun 23 | via Palm Beach Post 

  Are you feeling financially miserable yet? You should be, according to my new Palm Beach County Pocketbook Pain Index - it's at its highest level since the bad old days of the early '80s. In a nod to the Misery ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Palm Beach County, FL, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Homes less affordable as prices fall, rates rise

  Friday Jun 27 | via Turkish Daily News 

  Rising mortgage rates in the U.S. are driving up the cost of buying a house even as prices fall, making property more expensive across the nation, according to a new study by Zillow.com, an online provider of ...

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Mortgage, Westchester County, NY, Housing

Regional Headlines

• BankUnited in battle for survival

  3 hrs ago | via South Florida Business Journal 

  Florida's biggest bank, Coral Gables-based BankUnited , is fighting to survive a whirlpool of financially toxic residential mortgages.

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

• Southwest Florida Business Events: July 7, 2008

  9 hrs ago | via Naples Daily News 

  Edward Jones Investments, office of Darryl Young, will host the following seminars: "Is Your Solution for Long Term Care To Not Need It," presented by Dan Rivers of Genworth Financial from noon to 2 p.m. ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Golden Gate, FL, Bonita Springs, FL, Florida, Collier County, FL, Fort Myers, FL, Events

• Companies try to fill niche

  21 hrs ago | via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record 

  Local families on the verge of losing their homes have surprisingly few places to turn to for help.

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

• We think: It's good to see AG McCollum turning his attention to mortgage pitches

  Yesterday | via The Orlando Sentinel 

  Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum went a long way toward quelling doubts about his commitment to consumer protection last week when he sued Countrywide Financial Corp. 6 comments

  Related Topix: Florida, Home, Florida Government, Mortgage, US News, Opinion

• Housing bill may ease Fla. pressure

  Saturday | via Palm Beach Post 

  When the Senate returns Monday from its July Fourth recess, it will try again to pass a stalled package of mortgage relief and reform that could have a major impact on hard-hit Florida.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Florida, Florida Government, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Mel Martinez, Republican

National Headlines

• 15.JUN.08 Moratorium Now Coalition to stop

  7 min ago | via The Michigan Citizen 

  Official town hall meeting to demand passage of SB 1206, which will stop all foreclosures in Mmichigan for two years Saturday, June 14, 2-4 pm, UAW Local 7 2600 Conner Avenue, Detroit At the Town Hall Meeting ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Detroit Metro, Detroit Metro, Detroit, MI

• 18.MAY.08 'Improve your neighborhood'

  8 min ago | via The Michigan Citizen 

  Black Family Development Neighborhood Resource Fair Detroit residents will have the opportunity to learn how to form block clubs, prevent home foreclosure, obtain information on criminal record expungement and ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Detroit Metro, Detroit Metro, Detroit, MI, Wayne County, MI

• Trend toward specializations, relationships with clients

  9 min ago | via The Business Ledger 

  Trend toward specializations, relationships with clients As a result of the nation's economic climate, the legal profession is in a state of flux and experts agree that strengthening relationships with clients ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• Washington Report: Nationwide Registration?

  10 min ago | via Realty Times 

  With the Senate poised to pass major housing legislation this week -- even as early as tomorrow -- critics are taking a harder look at some of the bill's lesser-known provisions.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Realty Viewpoint: Discount Broker Leaves Sellers Stranded

  10 min ago | via Realty Times 

  Rumors were flying last week that Iggy's House, a discount broker, is out of business.

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  Related Topix: Burleson, TX, Real Estate