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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

• House Winner Fails To Find Buyer

  Thursday | via WJZ Baltimore, Maryland News Weather 

  There's little relief for those trying to sell homes in our current economy. Kelly McPherson reports, selling a house is getting tougher even if you won the house for a hundred dollar charity raffle.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Hagerstown, MD, Home Listing, Big Pool, MD, Washington County, MD, Baltimore County, MD

• For skinny houses, a chilly reception

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Baltimore Sun 

  It looks almost like an average-size house that's been sliced in half. At 12 feet wide, the neat, new single-family home is squeezed onto the slenderest of strips of land on a Brooklyn Park street of modest, ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Baltimore County, MD, Arnold, MD, Anne Arundel County, MD, Brooklyn Park, MD

• Some metro prices drop to 3-year lows

  Friday Jul 11 | via The Baltimore Sun 

  Average home prices dropped to three- or even four-year lows in parts of the metro area last month as sales continued to slump. 15 comments

  Related Topix: Housing

• Home sale prices in region slump again in June

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Baltimore Business Journal 

  Greater Baltimore's housing market continued to take a dive in June as home sales fell nearly 31 percent compared with the same month a year ago.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Baltimore Metro, Baltimore County, MD

• How-to Monday

  Monday Jul 7 | via The Baltimore Sun 

  If you don't absolutely, positively have to sell a home at the moment, how do you figure out if you really, honestly want to? Once you get past the financials -- how much do you owe, how much could you get -- ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Somerset County, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Baltimore Metro

Regional Headlines

• An economic prescription

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Baltimore Sun 

  Reading recent headlines, it might be easy to conclude that the economy is in a death spiral. 21 comments

  Related Topix: Maryland Government, Maryland, Weather, Housing, Opinion

• Mediation Is Next To Save Homes

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via The Washington Post 

  Judge Joan Zeldon told prosecutors and lenders to work with homeowners. COMMENT Discussion Policy Discussion Policy CLOSE By Keith L. Alexander Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 17, 2008; Page B02 A ...

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  Related Topix: Washington Post, Publishing, Maryland, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Home inspectors take a hit

  Monday Jul 14 | via Baltimore Business Journal 

  Home inspector Kevin Moore couldn't meet the demand of a booming real estate market between 2003 and 2006 -- business he'd like to have another shot at.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Maryland, Housing, Real Estate

• David Nitkin on state politics issues

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Baltimore Sun 

  Energy rates Diane, Arnold: How long before the [Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.] rate hike and the surging gas prices take a serious toll on the [Maryland] economy as reflected in cost of living ...

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  Related Topix: Arnold, MD, Home, Mortgage, Annapolis, MD, Maryland

• Living in century-old house has features, quirks

  Friday Jul 11 | via The Independent 

  Our house is more than 100 years old, having been built by a farm family at the turn of the last century.

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  Related Topix: Maryland, Waldorf, MD, Foreclosures

National Headlines

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

  6 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

  7 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

  7 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

  7 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

  8 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