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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

• Inflation threatens global economy, IMF warns

  Thursday | via USA Today 

  As if slow growth and a financial crisis weren't enough to worry about, the International Monetary Fund says inflation has emerged as a third major threat to the global economy.

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• The price must be right

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Boston Globe 

  This five-bedroom stucco home in Waltham has been on the market for three years.

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  Related Topix: Boston, MA Metro, Boston Metro, Real Estate

• Bay Area home prices continue steep fall

  Tuesday Jun 24 | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  The price of a typical single-family home in the San Francisco area plunged 22.1 percent compared with a year earlier, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price index.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Alameda, CA, San Mateo County, CA, San Francisco County, CA

• Lendia purchased by Virgin Money

  Tuesday Jun 24 | via Worcester Telegram & Gazette 

  Lendia LLC, which offers mortgage processing, underwriting, closing and funding services, has been acquired by Waltham-based Virgin Money USA, a person to person, or social lending company.

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  Related Topix: Waltham, MA, Worcester, MA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Mass. home sales decline in May

  Tuesday Jun 24 | via Boston Globe 

  The spring housing market is shaping up as one of Massachusetts' slowest ever. Home sales fell steeply in May, completing a three-month run of declines during the prime selling season for real estate.

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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Housing

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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• 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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National Headlines

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  4 min ago | via Midway/Como Monitor 

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• 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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