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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

Regional Headlines

• Foreclosures in the Portland area and central Oregon top 2002's dot-com drop

  Thursday Jul 17 | via The Oregonian 

  Mortgage defaults in the Portland area and central Oregon rose 97 percent in the first half of 2008, compared with a year ago.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Clackamas, OR, Portland, OR, Oregon, Foreclosures

• 'Green, Green' Redux

  Sep 17, 2007 | via Blogging Real Estate 

  Inside, around and through the Portland Metro area. Monday, September 17, 2007 'Green, Green' Redux Back in March I wrote this about the then new 'green' search filter on the MLS.

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  Related Topix: Oregon, Real Estate

• Don't Panic

  Apr 24, 2007 | via Blogging Real Estate 

  Tuesday, April 24, 2007 DON'T PANIC! Any time I can invoke Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebrox and Marvin the Seriously Depressed Android, I do.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Oregon

• June uptick 'good news, but barely'; Local market faces...

  Friday Jul 11 | via The Bulletin 

  June produced a glimmer of hope for a Bend real estate industry that reached its lowest depths in early 2008, according to a report this week from Bratton Appraisal Group.

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  Related Topix: Oregon, Bend, OR, Housing, Redmond, OR

• Oregon Inheritance Tax

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Associated Content 

  Oregon is one of the states that charge an inheritance tax. This is a tax on the heirs or beneficiaries of property transfers from an estate.

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  Related Topix: Oregon Government, Oregon, Mortgage, Home

National Headlines

• Governor needs to work with Pelosi to save Medi-Cal

  4 min ago | via San Jose Mercury News 

  If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to save health care coverage for poor and disabled Californians, he should get House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the phone - and soon.

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  Related Topix: Elderly, Family, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Opinion

• Loan program may help borrowers in trouble

  5 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  Although it has hundreds of pages and dozens of separate initiatives - including revamping federal oversight of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - the centerpiece is a $300 billion program designed to ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Editorial: Skeptical eyes on reverse mortgages

  5 min ago | via Star Tribune 

  Swanson, FBI are right to urge caution. Last update: July 19, 2008 - 5:08 PM A NEW MARKET "You have a lot of unemployed mortgage people, brokers, bankers who are in trouble, looking for the next big profit ...

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  Related Topix: Health, AARP, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  6 min ago | via Athens Banner-Herald 

  Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US News, Housing, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Realtors Get Creative During Summertime Sales Blues

  6 min ago | via Banker & Tradesman 

  Boston-based Charlesgate Realty Group recently had a catered open house for 290 Marlborough St.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Back Bay (Boston, MA), Boston, MA