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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

• 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

• House prices tumble in June

  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

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

• How to save money on your...

  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

• Homes repossessed for $1000

  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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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home