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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

• San Diego: City suing Countrywide to block foreclosures

  Yesterday | via North County Times 

  San Diego has filed a civil complaint asking a state court to block mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, San Diego Metro, Home, Mortgage, San Diego County, CA

• San Diego Suing Countrywide to Block Foreclosures

  16 hrs ago | via 970 & 1140 K-News 

  Submitted by knews on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 11:47. San Diego is asking a state court to block mortgage lender Countrywide Financial from foreclosing on subprime borrowers.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, San Diego County, CA

• the Neighborhood Market: In City Heights, a Housing Market of Juxtapositions

  Monday Jul 21 | via Voice of San Diego 

  Monday, July 21, 2008 The housing market in City Heights is like the makeup of the community itself: diverse and eclectic, with scores of styles and influences juxtaposed in the people and buildings that ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, San Diego County, CA, Foreclosures, Boulevard, CA, Home, Mortgage

• A Window into How the Market Went Crazy

  Jun 20, 2008 | via Voice of San Diego 

  Friday, June 20, 2008 In February, a homebuyer paid $591,000 for No. 602, a bank-owned unit in the Parkloft development near Petco Park.

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  Related Topix: San Diego County, CA, San Diego, CA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Six Charged in Alleged Mortgage Fraud Ring

  Jun 19, 2008 | via Voice of San Diego 

  Six individuals were charged in an alleged mortgage fraud scheme with potential losses to mortgage lenders of $5.1 million, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced this afternoon.

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  Related Topix: San Diego County, CA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing, Home Listing

Regional Headlines

• Merced Sun-Star: Governor takes bold action

  5 hrs ago | via Los Banos Enterprise 

  Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appears to have taken a bold step in finding a solution to one segment of the state's housing crisis.

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  Related Topix: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Merced Metro, Merced, CA, California, California Government, Home, Mortgage

• Home sales in June plunge 2.6%, a 10-year low, but West sees rise /...

  8 hrs ago | via SFGate 

  With an already huge glut of homes on the market, median prices fell compared with a year ago and analysts predicted prices would keep falling until next spring as tighter credit, a slipping job market and ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Foreclosures, California

• Foreclosure Effect on Renters

  Monday Jul 14 | via Voice of San Diego 

  I've been meaning to post this stat for a while. One-quarter of all foreclosed single-family homes in the state are occupied by renters, the California Apartment Association estimates.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, California Government, California

• Report: Grand jury investigating subprime lenders

  19 hrs ago | via The Record 

  A federal grand jury reportedly is investigating the nation's largest subprime mortgage lenders, Countrywide Financial Corp., New Century Financial Corp.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Home, Mortgage, California

• Don't Let Them Slash Your Credit-Card Limits

  22 hrs ago | via WTVF Nashville 

  As big banks such as Wachovia, Citigroup and Bank of America continue to post multimillion-dollar writedowns to cover mortgage loan losses and other bad investments, credit-card holders are increasingly getting ...

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

National Headlines

• Washington Mutual Bond Risk Rises as Credit-Default Swaps Climb to Record

  4 min ago | via Bloomberg Business News 

  The cost to protect Washington Mutual Inc. bonds from default rose for a third day to a record amid concern that the biggest U.S. savings and loan won't be able to weather the worst housing crisis since the ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Stamford, CT, Stamford Metro, New Haven Metro, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

• Foreclosure Filings More Than Double

  4 min ago | via KNBC Los Angeles Channel 4 

  The number of households facing the foreclosure process more than doubled in the second quarter compared to a year ago, according to data released Friday.

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  Related Topix: Irvine, CA, Stockton Metro, Stockton, CA, Housing, Foreclosures

• Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday

  5 min ago | via WAND-TV Decatur 

  The Senate has cleared the last hurdle to passing a massive housing rescue bill.

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

• Michigan ranks 7th in foreclosures

  6 min ago | via MLive.com 

  Michigan ranked seventh in the country in foreclosures during the second quarter of this year, according to data released July 25 by RealtyTrac.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Stockton, CA, Stockton Metro

• More people are out of work than expected this month

  8 min ago | via WBIR-TV Knoxville 

  A domino effect on Wall Street. A down day triggered by dismal earnings posted by Ford, a steep drop in existing home sales, and a spike in jobless claims.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Housing, Ford, Mortgage