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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Thursday Jun 19 | 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

• Santa Cruz County Bank Reports Second Quarter Results

  Feb 3, 2004 | via Earth Times 

  Bank reports double digit growth in assets, Loans, and deposits on year to year basis SANTA CRUZ, Calif., July 18 SANTA CRUZ, Calif.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Santa Cruz, CA, Santa Cruz Metro, Santa Cruz County, CA

• County home prices drop to $600,000 in June

  Yesterday | via Santa Cruz Sentinel 

  The county's median home price fell to $600,000 in June, a $157,000 drop compared to the same month last year, according to statistics released Thursday. 22 comments

  Related Topix: University of California System, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Santa Cruz Metro, Santa Cruz County, CA, Housing

• Median home prices slip to $600,000 in Santa Cruz County

  Yesterday | via Santa Cruz Sentinel 

  The median home price in Santa Cruz County slipped to $600,000 in June, down from $610,000 in May of 2008. 19 comments

  Related Topix: Santa Cruz County, CA, Housing

• Insufficient Funds

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Metro Santa Cruz 

  G et real . That's what any Californian who's stumbled across the so-called federal "poverty guidelines," which supposedly tell what it costs to live minimally in our state, usually mutters when seeing the ...

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  Related Topix: Santa Cruz County, CA, US News, United States Department of Agriculture, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Soapbox: State budget solutions require a united effort

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Thecalifornian.com 

  Five years after Gov. Schwarzenegger swept into office promising to fix California's budget problems, our state faces a staggering $15.2 billion deficit.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Monterey County, CA, Santa Clara County, CA, Santa Cruz County, CA, Opinion

Regional Headlines

• Inland rents start to level off, report says

  10 hrs ago | via The Press-Enterprise 

  After coping with years of strong rent growth, Inland Southern California apartment dwellers are getting relief.

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  Related Topix: California, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, Housing, UC Riverside, University of California System, San Bernardino, CA

• Calif. To Be Hit Hard Among Nation's 1 Million Foreclosures

  13 hrs ago | via KNBC Los Angeles Channel 4 

  A forecast released Friday has predicted that 1 million homes will be in foreclosure nationwide by the end of the year. 5 comments

  Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Home Listing

• Solar-powered homes give builder an edge

  13 hrs ago | via Lake Elsinore Valley News 

  Challenged with selling new homes in a tough residential real estate market, Woodside Homes has partnered with solar panel giant SunPower Corp., Southern California Edison and the makers of energy-efficient ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Energy, California, Temecula, CA

• No housing bubble in Canada: Flaherty

  14 hrs ago | via National Post 

  Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty shrugged off housing worries in Canada Wednesday, saying there is no bubble and that the subprime-mortgage woes crippling financial institutions in the United States are ...

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  Related Topix: Commerce (Texas A&M University System), Texas A&M University System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

• Starbucks closures heaviest in California, Florida, Texas

  20 hrs ago | via WNED.org 

  California, Florida and Texas, the U.S. states with the most Starbucks Corp stores, will see the most shuttered as the coffee chain axes more than 600 underperforming outlets in the coming year.

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  Related Topix: Drink, Coffee, Restaurant Management, Starbucks, California, Laguna Beach, CA, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Lawmaker: Extend mortgage protection for vets

  8 min ago | via MilitaryCity.com 

  Two projects aimee at protecting veterans with adjustable rate mortgages and adjustable hybrid rate mortgages could be extended past the end of this year if Rep.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Life, Veteran Affairs, US Politics, Ginny Brown-Waite, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Foreclosures

• Debt consolidation loans to manage debts easily and intelligently

  2 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  The main reason for such a situation is the high credit card bills, loans, and mortgages, etc.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Adverse Credit Remortgage - Refinance Easily

  3 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  This is done mainly to get a new mortgage for a lower rate of interest from a different lender for a better rate.

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

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  17 min ago | via Bubble Meter 

  Many culprits have been fingered for the housing crisis we're in today: unscrupulous mortgage lenders, dishonest borrowers, underregulated financial institutions.

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  Related Topix: UC San Francisco, University of California System, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• House prices 'will keep falling'

  22 min ago | via BBC 

  House prices in the UK and the US are likely to fall for another two years, the chairman of one of the world's most powerful banks has warned.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home