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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

• Thousands filing for bankruptcy in Toledo

  Friday | via 13abc.com 

  With job loss, home foreclosures, and piling bills it's happening now more than ever.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Toledo Metro, Toledo, OH, Mortgage, Home

• Bank problems affecting prospective home buyers

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via WTOL-TV Toledo 

  The most recent banking crisis has potential home buyers very nervous. But the word is that if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac need help, the government will step in.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Toledo, OH, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• OH has 3rd highest foreclosure total

  Friday Jul 11 | via 13abc.com 

  The surge in cases forced the county to hire a foreclosure magistrate to deal with the high number of cases.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Toledo, OH, Lucas County, OH, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• 13abc Friday headlines

  Friday Jul 11 | via 13abc.com 

  President Bush drilling in Alaska, Carty has minor prosedure, relief in California wildfires.

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  Related Topix: Sacramento (California State University System), California State University System, Iowa, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Ohio, Michigan remain in top 10 in U.S. foreclosure activity

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Toledo Blade 

  Foreclosure activity in the four-county Toledo metropolitan area fell by half last month but remained high as the nationwide mortgage crisis continued to work its way through the economy.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ohio, Lucas County, OH, Ottawa County, OH

Regional Headlines

• Ohio Department of Commerce warns Ohioans to be on guard against advance fee loan advertisements

  Yesterday | via LancasterEagleGazette 

  COLUMBUS - The Ohio Department of Commerce's Division of Financial Institutions is warning Ohioans to be on guard against newspaper advertisements that promote the availability of loans but fail to identify the ...

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Institutions, Financial Services, Ohio, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Job losses rise in June

  Jun 19, 2008 | via Columbus Dispatch 

  You need to look back to 1981 to find two months in which Ohio's jobless rate rose as much as it did in May and June.

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  Related Topix: University of Illinois System, Springfield (University of Illinois System), Ohio, US News, Sherrod Brown, US Senate, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Sherrod Brown, Ohio Government, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Making Ohio's Economy Grow

  Friday | via The Intelligencer 

  Like most other states, Ohio has taken its share of battering as the nation's economy struggles with challenges ranging from high gasoline prices to the "subprime mortgage crisis." Here in the Ohio Valley, ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Ohio, Ohio Government, US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat

• Feeling the Pinch -- Getting through a tough economy

  Friday | via WTOL-TV Toledo 

  Your job and retirement From finding and landing a job to recession-proofing your current job.

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

• Post a comment

  Thursday Jul 17 | via The Plain Dealer 

  After a fairly good week for banks, eyes will turn next week to the financial results of Northeast Ohio's big banks, which have gained national attention for their mortgage-induced pain.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Ohio, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Huntington Bancshares, National City Corporation

National Headlines

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  4 min ago | via KansasCity.com 

  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: Foreclosures, Housing, George Bush, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Realtor notes

  4 hrs ago | via Star-Press 

  MUNCIE -- Monte Needler, vice president of Coldwell Banker Lunsford, has announced the firm's residential sales and listing leaders for the week ending July 14.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Muncie, IN, Muncie Metro

• Don't count on Fed bailout for plunging U.S. currency

  4 hrs ago | via SFGate 

  The U.S. currency is not going to get a bailout, even though its steep decline is feeding inflation and straining the economy.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Essex, CT, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Tips quicken chances for home sale

  4 hrs ago | via Fort Collins Coloradoan 

  Even though we are in mid-July there are still new listing coming on the market each day.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home

• Helping houses remain homes

  4 hrs ago | via The Baltimore Sun 

  Two years ago, Germaine Thomas and her husband, Anthony, moved with their five children into a house in an upscale neighborhood in Prince George's County .

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  Related Topix: Housing, Morgan State University