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• A Foreclosure Bargain for Their "Forever House"

  Wednesday May 14 | via Realty Trac 

  Karen Krynen saw an opportunity. Nestled at the top of a hill with a long private driveway, the bank-owned property sitting on a huge 40,946 square foot lot was exactly what she was looking for.

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  Related Topix: La Habra Heights, CA, Foreclosures, Home Listing, Home

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• Whose Hurt With Declining Market Labels

  Sunday | via Realty Trac 

  It all started late last year when both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced a new loan standard for "declining markets." From now on, said the nation's largest mortgage buyers, if a local market is "declining" ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing

• CEO out as Franklin Bank faces SEC probe

  4 hrs ago | via Bizjournals 

  Houston Business Journal - by Greg Barr Reporter Anthony Nocella has relinquished his job as chief executive officer of Franklin Bank Corp.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Texas, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• , Corsicana, Texas

  7 hrs ago | via Corsicana Daily Sun 

  For months, people who don't want power plants in Navarro County have been organizing, running ads, and speaking out at city council and county commissioner's meetings.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Family, Kids, Texas, Corsicana, TX, Environmental, Waste Management, Navarro County, TX

• Cautious sellers want more data

  12 hrs ago | via HeraldTribune.com 

  If there is one type of booth getting more traffic this year at the International Council of Shopping Centers convention, it is the one that features software that can focus in on the most up-to-date ...

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  Related Topix: Texas, Foreclosures

• A.M. Best Special Report: Credit Crunch Clouds Outlook Of Hurricane Insurers, Cat FundsLoading...

  16 hrs ago | via Insurance News Net 

  May 19, 2008--Turmoil in the credit markets could leave policyholders in limbo if a major hurricane strikes the United States this year, as investors show a limited appetite for capital market offerings ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Texas Government, Texas

• Lowe's Gets Hammered

  18 hrs ago | via Hot Property 

  Big home improvement chain Lowe's posted weak numbers today, a 19% decline in earnings, same store sales were down 8%. The stock dropped 2%. It was already 30% off its peak from last year.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Texas, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Blog News

• This American Life, $1,000 bottles of Mortgage Bubbly

  4 min ago | via Hot Property 

  The public radio show This American Life had a great program on the housing bust on Sunday.

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

• Letter to Editor: "The buyers are the ones who are panicking..."

  7 min ago | via TheFrontSteps 

  Letter to Editor: "The buyers are the ones who are panicking" 20 05 2008 We received this email after our post regarding the apparent panic amongst some Realtors in San Francisco: From a fellow SF Realtor I ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Russia, Kostromskaya Oblast', Russia, Buy, Russia, World News

• Complete Coverage: America's Housing Crisis

  1 hr ago | via Forbes 

  An easy-money policy in the early years of the new millennium was meant to help the United States recover from the burst technology bubble and the Sept.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• A Senate Deal On Housing

  1 hr ago | via Forbes 

  Congress is one step closer to creating a legislative response to the recent spate of foreclosures.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, George Bush, US Senate, Republican, Richard Shelby, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• AIG shares tumble near decade lows

  1 hr ago | via MarketWatch 

  American International Group shares fell close to a decade low on Tuesday as the giant insurer raised roughly $20 billion in new capital to fortify itself against the ravages of the tumbling U.S. housing ...

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  Related Topix: Insurance, American International Group, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance