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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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Local Headlines

• America's mortgage crisis worsens

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Final Call 

  The presidential race, rising costs of oil and gas, extreme weather and food shortages offer enough to hold one's attention, but eyes remained glued on America's mortgage crisis.

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  Related Topix: Weather, African-American, Housing

• But - tsunami of all tsunamis' still to come, expert says

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via Gazette.Net 

  This story was corrected on June 25, 2008, from its print version. Home foreclosures are skyrocketing in Montgomery County, jumping six-fold over the last year, hitting Silver Spring, Germantown, Gaithersburg ...

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  Related Topix: Silver Spring, MD, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Montgomery Village, MD, Germantown, MD

• What to do after losing a job

  Sunday Jun 22 | via The Morning Call 

  Unemployment can strike anywhere, any time. And it's striking more often. The national unemployment rate in May had its biggest one-month jump in more than 20 years, rising a half-point, to 5.5 percent.

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  Related Topix: Silver Spring, MD, Personal Finance, Retirement, IRA, Foreclosures

• Mapping Home Prices in Montgomery

  Jan 30, 2008 | via The Washington Post 

  By Steve Hendrix Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, January 31, 2008; Page GZ01 In Montgomery County , how badly you are feeling burned by the real estate downturn has a lot to do with the Zip code in which ...

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  Related Topix: Washington Post, Publishing, Real Estate, Silver Spring, MD, Germantown, MD, Chevy Chase, MD

• Finding a solution to the sub-prime mess

  Jun 10, 2008 | via The Toledo Journal 

  There are disasters and there are disasters. The current sub-prime disaster will probably go down as one of the greatest tragedies done to working families, particularly black families.

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  Related Topix: Somerset, NJ, Middlesex Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

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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• 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

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  4 min ago | via Midway/Como Monitor 

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Science / Technology, Internet

• Phoenix Area MLS Loses 20% Of It's Members In June

  6 min ago | via Housing Doom 

  A lousy housing market and changes at ARMLS have led to a huge drop in membership: The listing service Valley real-estate agents use to advertise homes for sale canceled more than 20 percent of its memberships ...

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• Housing rebound unlikely for near future, some say

  4 hrs ago | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  The Bush administration's pledge to rescue ailing housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac raises anew questions about just when the nation's dismal housing market will hit bottom.

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

• Rental prices hold steady Number of new renters keeps pace with increasing supply

  9 hrs ago | via Prattville Progress 

  You might expect that as more and more people rent the houses they cannot sell during the cur rent real estate downturn, the in creased number of rental proper ties would bring about a drastic drop in rental ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Mortgage, Home, Prattville, AL

• Neighborhood is quiet, convenient

  Yesterday | via Prattville Progress 

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Prattville, AL, Home Listing