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• Foreclosure Activity Increases 4 Percent in April

  Tuesday May 13 | via Realty Trac 

  Foreclosure filings - default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions - were reported on 243,353 properties, a 4 percent increase from the previous month and a nearly 65 percent increase from April ...

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  Related Topix: Vallejo, CA, Vallejo Metro, Foreclosures

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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

• Mortgage Fraud: New Analysis of a Rising Threat

  Tuesday May 13 | via Federal Bureau of Investigation 

  By the end of fiscal year 2007, we were handling just over 1,200 mortgage fraud investigations.

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

• Housing starts fall 24 pct in first quarter

  Thursday | via International Herald Tribune 

  LONDON : Housing starts fell by nearly a quarter in the first three months of 2008 from the same period last year, government statistics showed on Thursday, a further sign that the housing market is cooling ...

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Home, Mortgage, 2008 Presidential Election, Illinois, Illinois Government

• Area home sales plummet

  Saturday May 10 | via Glen Ellyn Sun 

  The ongoing credit crunch and a softening economy led to double-digit declines in first-quarter home sales in the area and lower prices being paid for most of them, according to the Illinois Association of ...

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  Related Topix: Elgin, IL, Housing, Real Estate, Cook County, IL, Illinois, Kane County, IL

• Illinois foreclosures lessen; others soar

  Wednesday May 14 | via Arlington Heights Daily Herald 

  The rate of foreclosures in Illinois appears to be stabilizing while nationwide numbers continue to escalate, according to a RealtyTrac report expected to be released today.

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

• Housing Bulletin - Melissa Bean and Mortgage-Aid Legislation

  Wednesday May 14 | via Chicago Magazine 

  On May 8th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a mortgage rescue plan that, although threatened by a veto from President Bush, could help homeowners facing foreclosure stay in their homes with lower-cost ...

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  Related Topix: Illinois, US Politics, Melissa Bean, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Barney Frank

• BCNG Portals Page

  5 min ago | via Tacoma Daily Index 

  Goosefoot moves last salvage home Goosefoot said farewell to the last home in its house relocation program on Wednesday as the structure was moved to its new South End location.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Freeland, WA, Coupeville, WA

• Housing market crash takes toll on family pets

  5 min ago | via LA Daily News 

  It's sad enough when a family must lose its home during a soaring number of national bank foreclosures.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles County, CA, Foreclosures, Los Angeles, CA

• Summer may bring a turning point for stock market

  5 min ago | via Examiner.com 

  May 17, 2008 12:57 AM By JOE BEL BRUNO, AP In this photo released by the New York Stock Exchange Euronext, members of the 90's vocal group "New Kids on the Block" ring the closing bell at the exchange Thursday, ...

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  Related Topix: Manufacturing, Automakers, Pop/Rock, Jordan Knight, Home, Mortgage, Housing

• Phila. property still sells

  Yesterday | via Philly.com 

  Last year, while the housing and mortgage crises hammered Miami, Detroit, Atlanta and Las Vegas, Center City Philadelphia held its own, buffered by a large resident workforce and a lower cost of living.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Housing, Philadelphia, PA

• Construction of new homes rises in April

  10 min ago | via San Gabriel Valley Tribune 

  Construction of new homes increased by the biggest percentage in more than two years in April, a rare spot of good news amid the worst downturn in housing in more than two decades.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Housing