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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

• Home prices slide in Pioneer Valley

  Yesterday | via MassLive.com 

  The median price of a single-family home in the Pioneer Valley fell 3.7 percent in the second quarter of 2008 to $208,000 compared with April, May and June 2007.

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  Related Topix: Longmeadow, MA, Greenfield, MA, Housing, Hampden County, MA, Real Estate, Springfield, MA

• Home prices in Pioneer Valley drop again

  Thursday | via MassLive.com 

  By JIM KINNEY Business writer SPRINGFIELD - The median price for a single-family home in the Pioneer Valley fell 3.7 in the last three months to $208,000 compared with April, May and June of 2007.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Springfield Metro, Springfield, MA, Longmeadow, MA, Hampden County, MA

• Fighting foreclosure in Western Mass

  Monday Jul 14 | via WWLP 

  More and more families are losing their homes to foreclosure here in the Pioneer Valley. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Springfield College, Springfield Metro, Springfield, MA

• Feds move to seize funds of loanshar

  Saturday Jul 12 | via MassLive.com 

  The federal government is preparing to seize a $49,000 account from convicted loanshark Albert B. Calvanese.

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  Related Topix: Federal Prisons, Springfield Metro, Springfield, MA, Wilbraham, MA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Mortgage crisis deepens locally

  Thursday Jul 10 | via MassLive.com 

  By JIM KINNEY Business writer SPRINGFIELD - Foreclosure filings nearly doubled in Hampden County between June 2007 and last month, while rising more than 50 percent nationally.

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  Related Topix: Springfield Metro, Springfield, MA, Hampden County, MA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Franklin County, MA

Regional Headlines

• Mass. home foreclosures more than double in May

  Sunday Jul 6 | via EDGEptown.com Style Feed v1.0 

  Home foreclosure deeds more than doubled in Massachusetts last month, although a new state law has yielded a temporary decline in foreclosure petitions, the first step in the process.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government

• Mass. foreclosures set another record

  Monday Jun 30 | via Boston Globe 

  Foreclosure deeds in Massachusetts broke another record last month, the Warren Group said today.

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  Related Topix: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Mass. exodus mostly a myth

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via Boston Herald 

  Both the Herald and the Globe ran columns based on the study's finding that Massachusetts has a large population loss - and citing that loss as proof that Massachusetts residents generally share the writers' ...

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  Related Topix: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Seattle, WA, Housing, Opinion

• Mass. home sales, prices are still falling

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via Lowell Sun 

  Home sales and median prices continue to decline on a year-over-year basis, but some are starting to see a silver lining to the housing slump.

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  Related Topix: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Housing, Real Estate

• Median sales price falls 9.2 percent

  Monday Jun 23 | via Boston Globe 

  The median selling price in May for single-family homes in Massachusetts fell 9.2 percent to $322,500, compared with $355,000 in May 2007, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors reported today The volume of ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Massachusetts, Housing

National Headlines

• Lawmaker: Extend mortgage protection for vets

  9 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

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  19 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'

  23 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

• Failures of big banks fan fears of Staten Islanders

  28 min ago | via Pennlive.com 

  Fannie Mae headquarters in Washington, D.C. The collapse of a major national bank and growing talk of government bailouts of other financial institutions on the brink have Staten Islanders wondering if their ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Deposit, NY

• Suburbs, A Dream Too Real To Live?

  28 min ago | via The Ledger 

  Published: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 7:20 a.m. As the housing market implodes and financial institutions struggle, a difficult but necessary societal ...

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  Related Topix: Medicine, Alcoholism, Health, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance