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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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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Housing, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Former supervisor, current trustee vie for Clerk position

  17 hrs ago | via Courier 

  There are two Democratic candidates running in the Aug. 5 Primary Election for Ypsilanti Township Clerk position: David Ostrowski and Karen Lovejoy-Roe. There are no Republicans filed, barring a write-in ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Ypsilanti, MI, Washtenaw County, MI

• North Sky gets council's OK

  Tuesday | via Ann Arbor News 

  The newly hired attorney for the confessed killer of real-estate agent Troy Vanderstelt is considering an insanity defense for his client, based on the purported interaction of prescription drugs the defendant ...

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  Related Topix: Troy, MI, Real Estate, Ann Arbor, MI, Detroit Metro

• Ann Arbor-area Realtors 'working smarter,' using technology in soft market

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Jackson Citizen Patriot 

  Martin Bouma of Bouma Group. Ann Arbor Realtors are using everything from technology like Internet search-engine optimization and Web lead generation to basic skills like market research to keep their ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Ann Arbor, MI, Ann Arbor Metro, Detroit Metro, Real Estate

• Grant to help home buyers

  Friday Jul 11 | via Ann Arbor News 

  Agency will help with down payment, fix-ups to meet codes BY KHALIL E. HACHEM Qualified first-time home buyers could get assistance with down payments and home repairs under a new program proposed by a ...

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  Related Topix: Washtenaw County, MI, Ypsilanti, MI, Foreclosures

• Green Party slates meeting

  Friday Jul 11 | via Battle Creek Enquirer 

  The Green Party of Michigan will hold its 2008 state convention July 26 and 27 at the Franke Center for the Arts, 214 E. Mansion St.

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  Related Topix: Ann Arbor, MI, Calhoun County, MI, Housing, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

Regional Headlines

• Existing home sales fall 2.6% in June

  14 hrs ago | via Detroit Free Press 

  Home sales continued to decline nationwide in June and inventories rose, the National Association of Realtors reported this morning.

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

• West Michigan home sellers try different tactics to lure buyers

  8 hrs ago | via Ann Arbor News 

  Redstone Group Sales Consultant Jennifer Krzykwa, center, talks with Ellen and Richard Erdmann, of Grandville, on Wednesday at a wine and art open house at Aberdeen Ridge Condominiums.

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  Related Topix: Grandville, MI, Home Building, Home, Ada, MI, Housing, Michigan, Ottawa County, MI

• Suite Talk July 24, 2008

  11 hrs ago | via Washington Examiner 

  Jonathan L. Kempner, president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, is stepping down at the end of the year.

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  Related Topix: Michigan, Mortgage, Personal Finance, George Washington University

• Business news briefs

  16 hrs ago | via Clinton County News 

  Independent Bank Corp. swung to a profit during the second quarter. The bank, which has a regional office in East Lansing, reported Wednesday it earned $3.35 million, or 15 cents per share, for the three-month ...

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Independent Bank, Home, Mortgage, Michigan

• Housing Crisis Help for MI

  19 hrs ago | via WLNS-TV Lansing 

  A major housing rescue plan that had previously been under a presidential veto threat gets President Bush's stamp of approval and the new law could have a big impact in Mid-Michigan. As Lauren Thompson reports, ...

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  Related Topix: Michigan, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

National Headlines

• Editorial: Cloudy prospects

  3 min ago | via Business Standard 

  Oil prices have dipped a good 15 per cent in the last few days, and suddenly the forecasts on oil prices talk of a dip, not a further rise in prices.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

• Housing, jobs send stocks skidding

  3 min ago | via SI.com 

  Renewed fears about the battered housing market and rising unemployment sent stocks into a tailspin Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing

• On the Market: Chad Rogers's Beverly Hills Listing

  4 min ago | via CurbedLA 

  Last week, everyone met Chad Rogers , one of the real estate agents behind the forthcoming "Million Dollar Listings," Bravo's new television show about three "hot" Los Angeles real estate agents.

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  Related Topix: Beverly Hills, CA, Real Estate, Los Angeles, CA, Million Dollar Listing, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television

• PricewaterhouseCoopers: Credit and mortgage crisis cause companies to delay public offerings

  4 min ago | via International Herald Tribune 

  NEW YORK : PricewaterhouseCoopers on Thursday reported that the number of initial public offerings for the first half of the year has fallen to a four-year low because of turbulent market conditions.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Accounting, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Visa Inc., Financial Markets

• Credit Suisse profit plunges 62%, less than analysts said

  6 min ago | via The Taipei Times 

  Credit Suisse has been able to cut risky positions a bit faster than probably the average in the sector.

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  Related Topix: Insurance, Credit Suisse Group, Home, Mortgage, Banking, Financial Services, Ubs Ag