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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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One of Habitat for Humanity's four new houses gets occupants
Thursday Jul 17 | via The Olympian
Jessalynn and Steven Willis and their two children lived in a relative's basement.
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Related Topix: Thurston County, WA, Olympia Metro, Olympia, WA, Home, Mortgage
Law skewed in favor of builders
Tuesday Jul 15 | via Seattle Post-Intelligencer
For the past two years, I've offered a bill in the state Senate that attempts to level the playing field between home buyers and builders.
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Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Thurston County, WA, Olympia Metro, Olympia, WA, Washington, Opinion
Thursday Jul 10 | via The Olympian
Thurston County home prices slid more than 9 percent from June 2007 to June 2008, the Northwest Multiple Listing Service reported, the steepest year-over-year drop this year and the largest decline South Sound ...
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Related Topix: Thurston County, WA, Housing
Local home values hang on as sales decline
Sunday Jul 6 | via The Olympian
Thurston County home sales are down, building activity has tapered off and more people have fallen behind on mortgage payments, according to newly compiled data for the first half of the year.
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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home Listing, Housing, Thurston County, WA, Real Estate
State consolidates offices in Tumwater
Jun 23, 2008 | via Seattle Post-Intelligencer
The old state Health Department office was so limited on space that employees had to wash shellfish in the sink by the office coffee maker before sending them to a laboratory for toxin testing.
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Related Topix: Tumwater, WA, Real Estate, Thurston County, WA, Olympia Metro, Olympia, WA
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
3 min ago | via AdelaideNow...
SAVE money? The Murray family has found a way to actually make money from their weekly grocery shop.
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Related Topix: Australia, Oceania, World News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance
Housing woes leave furniture dealers struggling
3 min ago | via Nashua Telegraph
In the furniture business nowadays, even flat sales are considered good. Havertys, Sealy and other major manufacturers have seen sales drop 25 percent or more since last year.
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Related Topix: Conover, NC, Apex, NC, Cary, NC, Housing
Raleigh foreclosures up, still better than national rate
4 min ago | via Wral.com
Foreclosures in the City of Raleigh were 64 percent greater in the second quarter of 2008 than in the same period last year.
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Related Topix: North Carolina, Foreclosures, Housing
New home sales drop 0.6 percent in June
5 min ago | via Chico Enterprise-Record
Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, more proof that the worst housing slump in decades is getting deeper.
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Related Topix: Irvine, CA, Foreclosures, Real Estate, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance
5 min ago | via News.com.au
AUSTRALIA'S economy is looking even more fragile amid reports that some mortgage lenders are repossessing homes for defaults of as little as $1000. As share investors lost about $40billion yesterday, a major ...
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