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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

• Planner: county homes are maintaining their value

  Thursday | via Montgomery Life 

  Montgomery County homes continue to hold their value in a housing market that has tanked nationally, according to county planner Scott France.

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  Related Topix: Montgomery County, PA, Erdenheim, PA, Housing, Gwynedd, PA, Narberth, PA

• Housing market not so bad in right places

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Philly.com 

  This article on new-home sales incorrectly said there was only one such development in the Garnet Valley School District.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Huntingdon Valley, PA, Glen Mills, PA, Delaware County, PA, Real Estate, Montgomery County, PA

• Chester County

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Baker County Standard 

  Virtual Chester County Local resource for Chester County with coupons, virtual tours and more.

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  Related Topix: Chester County, PA, Foreclosures, Real Estate, Exton, PA, Montgomery County, PA

• Housing market not so bad, in right places

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Philly.com 

  When all else seems to fail, the tried and true often succeeds. So perhaps it's not surprising that even in this tough real estate market, what's selling new houses is what always sells them: Location.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Huntingdon Valley, PA, Glen Mills, PA, Delaware County, PA, Real Estate, Montgomery County, PA

• Contents of alleged drug dealer's home auctioned off

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Philly.com 

  While Marlon Abrahams cools his heels in cell block G1 of the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, his allegedly marijuana-financed two-story East Norriton ranch house - and everything in it - is being sold ...

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  Related Topix: East Norriton, PA, Real Estate, Montgomery County, PA, Drugs, Home Listing, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• State Capitol Roundup for July 18

  Yesterday | via Tony Phyrillas 

  I thought the Legislature was on its 2-month summer vacation, but it appears some lawmakers are still in Harrisburg.

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  Related Topix: Harrisburg (Pennsylvania State University System), Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Home, Mortgage

• Wachovia's Brokerage Inspected by State Regulators in Auction-Rate Probe

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Bloomberg 

  Wachovia Corp. 's securities division was inspected by a team of regulators from more than five states who delivered subpoenas today as part of a probe into the company's sales of auction-rate bonds.

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Advertising, Boston University, Pennsylvania

• Don Spatz,

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Reading Eagle/Reading Times 

  I've taken shots at the Pennsylvania Department of Banking for hiding behind a legal gag and refusing to say what really happened in the Wesley Snyder case.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Federal Prisons, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Consumer Prices Jump by the Most Since 2005 on Surge in Fuel, Food Costs

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Bloomberg 

  Prices paid by U.S. consumers jumped in June by the most since 2005 on spiraling costs for fuel and food, intensifying the pressure on households struggling with falling home prices and the credit crunch.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Ben Bernanke, Pennsylvania

• Economic Outlook: Midwestern banks to see tough round of quarterly results

  Sunday Jul 13 | via MarketWatch 

  A wave of gloomy results from the second quarter are expected to be the highlight of reports that Midwestern regional banks will issue in the coming days, analysts say.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, US Bancorp, Marshall University, Pennsylvania

National Headlines

• Banks sound but economy to take time: Paulson

  6 min ago | via West Linn Tidings 

  The U.S. economy needs months to recover from its slowdown, but the banking system remains sound despite a home mortgage crisis that could cause more problems, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, US News

• Paulson braces public for months of tough times

  3 hrs ago | via The Associated Press 

  Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sought to reassure an anxious public Sunday that the banking system is sound, while also bracing people for more troubled times ahead.

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

• Many Ada County property owners get a break

  8 min ago | via Fort Mill Times 

  More than 1,000 property owners in southwestern Idaho's highly populated Ada County asked for a reduction in assessed property value in an attempt to lower their property taxes.

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  Related Topix: Ada County, ID, Real Estate

• Woes of U.S. credit crisis: lack of regulation?

  9 min ago | via The Hindu 

  "Issuers should only launch products which are easy to understand and easy to measure risk" The developments in the U.S. sub-prime markets or housing mortgage markets have brought to the fore several issues ...

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  Related Topix: Burbank, CA, Chicago (University of Illinois System), University of Illinois System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• One year of the global financial crisis

  9 min ago | via The Hindu 

  It is a little over a year since the U.S. financial crisis became a global issue.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage