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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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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Families' 'healing' begins with building Habitat homes

  21 hrs ago | via The Peninsula Gateway 

  A team of Habitat volunteers lift a wall into place during the house-framing frenzy Friday.

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  Related Topix: Fox Island, WA, Home, Mortgage, Pierce County, WA, Family, Kids

• first deal nearly closed - Awesome product' still a tough sell

  Friday Jul 18 | via The News Tribune 

  A second-floor condo at The Esplanade on the Foss Waterway in Tacoma comes with granite counters.

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  Related Topix: Pierce County, WA, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Seattle Metro, Tacoma, WA

• Columbia Banking sees more loan trouble

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

  Columbia Banking System Inc. became the latest Northwest company to be tripped up by growing problems in the region's real estate market when it announced sizable increases in delinquent loans and the money ...

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  Related Topix: Columbia Banking System, Banking, Financial Services, Seattle Metro, Tacoma Metro, Tacoma, WA, Housing, Home, Mortgage

• Foreclosure filings up nearly 70% in state

  Thursday Jul 10 | via The Seattle Times 

  Washington state foreclosure filings were up 69 percent last month compared with the previous June and up almost 10 percent from May, as the mortgage meltdown continues despite government and private efforts to ...

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  Related Topix: Pierce County, WA, Snohomish County, WA, King County, WA, Home, Mortgage

• Sellers could soon have their market

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Tacoma News Tribune 

  The median home price in Pierce County continued to drop in June but so, too, did the number of homes awaiting buyers.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Pierce County, WA, Snohomish, WA, Puyallup, WA

Regional Headlines

• and Whatcom Business Magazine

  11 hrs ago | via Bellingham Herald 

  Member Center Jul, 24, 2008 BUSINESS Wells Fargo names senior Business Banking relationship manager ` *Beta Graham Youtsey has been named senior Business Banking relationship manager at Wells Fargo.

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  Related Topix: Western Washington University, Home, Mortgage, Whatcom County, WA, Washington, Bellingham, WA

• Treasury Notes Drop on Stock Gains, Outlook for Wider U.S. Budget Deficit

  Wednesday | via Bloomberg 

  Treasury 10-year notes fell for a second day as stocks advanced and a government rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spurred concern the budget deficit will grow.

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

• Real Estate Tourists Venture Out on "Foreclosure Safari"

  Sunday Jul 20 | via KIMA 

  It's a safari unlike any you've seen before-- it's in your neighborhoods. More than 40 people took a bus tour of foreclosed homes around the Tri-Cities Saturday.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Washington, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Bush claims privilege to withhold CIA leak records

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Tri-cityherald.com 

  President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 15, 2008, where he called on Congress to move quickly to put into force legislation designed to prop up mortgage ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae, George Bush, Washington, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Top Story: Plame Games Continue: Bush Claims Executive Privilege On CIA Leak

  Thursday Jul 17 | via ABC News 

  The Associated Press 47 comments President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 15,... President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae, Washington, George Bush, US News, State of the Union

National Headlines

• Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday

  2 min ago | via KTVN Reno 

  The Senate has cleared the last hurdle to passing a massive housing rescue bill.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, George Bush, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Foreclosure Filings More Than Double

  2 min ago | via KCCI 

  The number of households facing the foreclosure process more than doubled in the second quarter compared to a year ago.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• Housing bill clears hurdle, vote seen Saturday

  2 min ago | via Reuters 

  The U.S. Senate voted on Friday to limit debate on a bill aimed at shoring up both the housing market and mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, paving the way for a final vote expected on ...

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

• Supervisors will make decision on SPARC funds

  3 min ago | via Southwest Times 

  The Pulaski County Board of Supervisors will decide Monday night whether to accept an agreement for $1 million in funding to cover another year of low-interest loans for first-time home buyers.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Durables orders, Freddie Mac provide firm view

  4 min ago | via Reuters 

  New orders for long-lasting U.S. manufactured goods rose unexpectedly in June on a surge in defense orders, while a gauge of business investment was also higher than forecast in signs of economic resilience, a ...

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