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• Top 7 Foreclosure Stories of Past Year

  Jun 19, 2008 | 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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Local Headlines

• Ames housing market avoiding national trends

  Jun 3, 2008 | via Ames Tribune 

  Housing crisis? What housing crisis? If you've been shopping the market here in Story County, you probably know that the national news just doesn't ring true.

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  Related Topix: Story County, IA, Real Estate, Housing, Ames, IA

• Faces and Places for April 29, 2008

  Apr 29, 2008 | via Des Moines Register 

  NEW JOBS Dennis Earhart has been promoted to senior vice president of commercial banking at First American Bank.

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  Related Topix: Ames, IA, Home, Mortgage, Luther, IA, Des Moines Metro

• Iowa State professor asks: Are you in touch financially?

  Apr 12, 2008 | via Des Moines Register 

  Tahira Hira emphasizes each word with a small clap: Consumers need to behave responsibly.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Ames, IA, Home Listing, Home

• Faces & Places for March 21, 2008

  Mar 21, 2008 | via Des Moines Register 

  NEW JOBS Monica Abbas has joined Episciences Inc. as an account manager and educator for the Midwest region.

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• Iowa not feeling depth of foreclosure crisis

  Mar 6, 2008 | via Des Moines Register 

  Editor's note: This is the first in a two-part series looking at Iowa's foreclosure situation and how it relates to Ames.

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  Related Topix: Polk County, IA, Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Metro, Story County, IA, Ames, IA, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• Congressional housing action could aid Iowans

  14 hrs ago | via Waterloo Courier 

  A housing bill being considered in Congress could lend a hand to Iowans struggling to make mortgage payments, Sen.

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  Related Topix: US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Tom Harkin, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, Iowa

• Winnebago Withstands Tough Economic Road

  Monday Jul 21 | via RV Business 

  Each morning, Winnebago Industries Inc. Chairman Bob Olson reviews key company, motorhome industry and U.S. economic statistics with his top managers.

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  Related Topix: Iowa, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Winnebago

• Leach proves prophetic about mortgage crisis

  Saturday Jul 19 | via Des Moines Register 

  From his office at Harvard, Jim Leach walked me through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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• East-side residents fight mortgage crisis

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Http 

  Overgrown lawns, broken windows and tell-tale lock boxes are becoming more common sights in east Des Moines, where the number of vacated homes continues to increase as part of the nationwide mortgage crisis.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Iowa, Foreclosures

• Mortgage lending and housing market changes in Iowa

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via KWWL-TV Waterloo 

  For buyers and sellers, national economic and housing trends still apply in Iowa, just on a smaller scale.

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National Headlines

• Collar counties' sales, median home prices up in June

  15 min ago | via Courier News 

  Home sales in the collar counties picked up in June from May sales figures, and the median sale prices edged up as well, according to the Illinois Association of Realtors' latest report.

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• Dollar mixed against major currencies

  16 min ago | via People's Daily 

  The dollar was mixed against major currencies on Friday as U.S. sales of new homes were slightly better than expected in June.

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• Two gas bill hikes now on the way Increases expected to total 40pc in six months

  17 min ago | via Irish Independent 

  HOUSEHOLDS face two 20pc increases in their gas bills over the next six months, the Irish Independent can reveal.

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• Top lender under fire over new mortgage fee

  17 min ago | via Irish Independent 

  A LEADING mortgage lender has broken ranks with other banks and decided to start charging a fee to customers who seek a better-value mortgage.

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• Senate close to passing housing aid

  18 min ago | via Lubbock Avalanche 

  Homeowners struggling to make their house payments could get government mortgage relief under a rescue plan that seeks to revive the chaotic housing market and help reverse the economic downturn.

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