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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

• Real estate company turns to radio for sales

  Saturday Jul 19 | via The Augusta Chronicle 

  If these walls could talk ... well, some of them can. Driving past some houses in North Augusta and Aiken, motorists tuned to the right AM frequency can hear a detailed report on the home for sale.

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  Related Topix: University of South Carolina System, Augusta, GA, Home, Home Selling, Home Listing

• Bank announces dividend

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Augusta Chronicle 

  Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:24 a.m. The board of directors of Southeastern Bank Financial Corp., the holding company for Georgia Bank & Trust Company of Augusta and Southern Bank & Trust, today announced that ...

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  Related Topix: Augusta, GA

• Southeastern Bank Financial Corp. Declares Cash Dividend

  Thursday Jul 17 | via PrimeNewswire 

  The Board of Directors of Southeastern Bank Financial Corp. , the holding company for Georgia Bank & Trust Company of Augusta and Southern Bank & Trust, on July 16, 2008, declared a regular quarterly cash ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Augusta, GA, University of Maine System

• Bring home the bacon from a Tenn. master

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  Pilgrimages are typically once-in-a-lifetime events. People from all over the world take religious pilgrimages to Israel, Mecca, the Vatican or Nepal.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Cooperstown, NY

• Thunderstorm watch until 9 p.m.

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Augusta Chronicle 

  Sunday, June 29, 2008 2:46 p.m. The National Weather Service this afternoon issued a severe thunderstorm watch until 9 p.m. for many east Georgia counties.

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  Related Topix: Weather, Screven, GA, Home, Mortgage, Augusta, GA, Evans, GA

Regional Headlines

• President Bush drops opposition to housing bill

  Yesterday | via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  President Bush dropped his opposition Wednesday to a broad housing package aimed at bolstering the sagging economy, despite his objections to including $3.9 billion for neighborhoods hit hardest by ...

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  Related Topix: Georgia, George Bush, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Keep the down payment assistance program

  Yesterday | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Who's to blame for the subprime mortgage crisis sweeping the nation? Wall Street bankers who've overleveraged their books by billions of dollars? Or first-time home buyers who received gifts of a few thousand ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Georgia

• Lesbian candidate advances to Georgia House runoff

  Friday Jul 18 | via Southern Voice 

  Keisha Waites made it to an Aug. 5 runoff after taking second in a crowded field for House District 61 while Kevin Clark lost his bid for state Senate District 2. Keisha Waites is one step closer to making ...

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  Related Topix: East Point, GA, Mortgage, Atlanta Metro, Georgia

• A Texas warning for Georgia banks

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Several Georgia banks dominate a recent ranking of the nation's riskiest financial institutions based on a measure known as the "Texas ratio," which attempts to gauge how likely they will run into deep ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Alpharetta, GA, Georgia

• Superior Court Clerk Candidates Q&A

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Rome News - Tribune 

  I am a Floyd County native and I began my public service career in 1975 as a deputy sheriff with the Floyd County Sheriffs Department.

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  Related Topix: Texas A&M University System, Georgia, Real Estate

National Headlines

• Editorial: Cloudy prospects

  2 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

  2 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

  3 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

  3 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

  5 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