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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

• FHA Mortgage Focus Fuels Lend America's Rise

  Monday Jun 30 | via Housing Wire 

  The changing landscape in mortgage banking is propelling fast-growth for lenders that specialize in originating mortgages endorsed by the Federal Housing Administration ; Melville, New York-based Lend America ...

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  Related Topix: Melville, NY, Biotech, Amersham, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Suffolk County, NY

• There kitty: June is Adopt-a-Shelter-Cat Month

  Thursday Jun 26 | via AMNY 

  American Humane has christened June Adopt-a-Shelter-Cat Month. But as we all know - cliche alert - any month is the ideal one for giving a home to a stray or unwanted kitty.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Selden, NY, Commack, NY, Entertainment

• Paterson, Senate Near Deal on Foreclosures

  Tuesday Jun 17 | via New York Sun 

  Over vehement opposition from the banking and mortgage lending industries, Governor Paterson and legislative leaders are moving closer to an agreement on legislation that will make foreclosing on homes more ...

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

• Hundreds of Long Island Homeowners Seek Foreclosure Relief

  Thursday Jun 19 | via Three Village Times 

  More than 300 Long Island homeowners struggling to avoid foreclosure had their loans reviewed by bank and mortgage servicing company representatives last Saturday, during a forum hosted by Senator Craig M. ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Suffolk County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Opinion

• Free Breaking News: Chief Judge Unveils Program to Deal With Dramatic Rise in Foreclosures

  Wednesday Jun 18 | via The New York Law Journal 

  Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye responded today to the dramatic rise in residential foreclosure filings throughout New York by announcing a new statewide program intended to educate homeowners and facilitate early ...

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  Related Topix: Suffolk County, NY, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• Wachovia Corp.

  Yesterday | via Birmingham Business Journal 

  Leaning up against the wall in Chris Varley's office is a print of the 1980s' painting by Jimmy Dyer, "The Closing." In the picture, business people are sitting or standing around a large boardroom table that ...

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  Related Topix: Banking, JP Morgan Chase , New York, Financial Services, Computers, Wachovia Corporation, Home, Mortgage

• Fillmore RE Reports Strongest Quarter Yet

  Thursday Jul 3 | via The Brooklyn Daily Eagle 

  Fillmore Real Estate, a Brooklyn-based, privately-owned and operated residential real estate firm, reports having its best three-month period ever - ' striking for a soft market, according to John Reinhardt, ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, New York

• Wachovia

  Thursday Jul 3 | via The Business Journal of Phoenix 

  On the face of it, one of the nation's largest mortgage lenders and a San Francisco activist group hell-bent on blocking development would seem like strange bedfellows.

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  Related Topix: Banking, JP Morgan Chase , New York, Financial Services, Wachovia Corporation, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Business in the Burbs: Existing home prices up in Putnam, Westchester despite sales declines

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Journal News 

  Sales and median prices of existing homes continued to show weakness year-over-year in May across most of New York state.

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  Related Topix: Putnam County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Housing, New York Metro, New York, Rockland County, NY

• New York City office market under strain

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via International Herald Tribune 

  NEW YORK : The Manhattan office market, far and away the largest in the United States, is showing signs of strain under the weight of the ills suffered by the financial sector, according to real estate services ...

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  Related Topix: New York, Real Estate, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Buffalo Ranks High in Big Cities with Low Rent

  20 min ago | via Br city 

  Renting homes and apartments is becoming more popular nationwide due to stricter rules in obtaining a mortgage.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Online Newspaper

  22 min ago | via The Bangladesh Observer 

  NNN: We Make Newspapers National. One Stop Access to Major USA Papers in Print and Online .

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Most folks in Otisville understand change

  28 min ago | via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record 

  We are working stiffs who wonder how on earth we will pay for gas, mortgages and heat.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Orange County, NY, Otisville, NY, Middletown, NY

• Housing market in Welsh town shows wider woes

  29 min ago | via Arizona Daily Star 

  During a bustling lunch hour in this Welsh commuter town, 25-year-old Richard Williams is one of the few who pause to look at properties for sale in a real-estate agent's window - and he isn't buying.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Las Vegas, NV, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Chesapeake makes four major land buys in area

  37 min ago | via Fort Worth Star-Telegram 

  Fort Worth-based Vintage Capital Partners has sold nearly 15 of the 20 acres that it bought along White Settlement Road and Nursery Lane to a Virginia investment firm, which then flipped it to a division of ...

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  Related Topix: Wichita Falls Metro, Wichita Falls, TX, Housing, Dean, TX, Horseshoe Bay, TX