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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Bluhm sounds alarm on Pittsburgh casino deal

  38 min ago | via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

  The latest deal to save a casino in Pittsburgh faces major uncertainty by as early as July 30 if it is not approved by then by the state Gaming Control Board.

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  Related Topix: Allegheny County, PA, Pittsburgh Metro, Foreclosures, Pittsburgh, PA

• Home prices rise in June, but sales fall

  15 hrs ago | via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

  Metropolitan Pittsburgh's residential real estate prices grew by an average of 2 percent in June compared with a year ago, but the total dollars spent on homes fell by 15 percent during the same time frame.

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  Related Topix: Pittsburgh Metro, Housing, Beaver County, PA, Washington County, PA, Allegheny County, PA

• In housing market made of glass, region can throw stones

  Monday Jul 21 | via Valley Tribune 

  TRACKING THE MARKET RealSTATs, a Pittsburgh-based company that tracks local real estate data, offered the following historic January-through-June statistics, which show how the local market has performed over ...

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  Related Topix: Allegheny County, PA, Housing, Real Estate, Foreclosures

• 'Unfathomable' end for victim of womb-slash slay

  Monday Jul 21 | via Earthlink 

  OAKLAND: None NY YANKEES: J.Giambi , none on in 6th TIME - 2:26 ; ATTENDANCE - 54366.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, McKeesport, PA, Pittsburgh Metro, Allegheny County, PA

• Totteridge developer's homes set for auction

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  Ten partially built homes behind the first green at the Totteridge Golf Club could be auctioned off Sept.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Howard, PA, Allegheny County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Greensburg, PA

Regional Headlines

• Regional economy shows improvement

  15 hrs ago | via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

  Despite weaknesses in parts of the housing and retail sectors, the economy in the Federal Reserve's Fourth District, which includes Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and parts of Kentucky and West Virginia, improved ...

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Mortgage, Home

• Economic Watchdog, July 21

  Monday Jul 21 | via Optionetics 

  The economy might take a backseat to earnings news this week, but there still are several reports that could impact trading.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Pennsylvania, Financial Markets, Home Selling, Housing

• Dundee Homeowners Choose To Auction House

  Sunday Jul 20 | via KETV 

  Some Omaha homeowners are waiting months to sell their homes, but a family in Dundee intends to sell their in an instant.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Pennsylvania, Home Listing, Home

• State Capitol Roundup for July 18

  Friday Jul 18 | via Tony Phyrillas 

  I thought the Legislature was on its 2-month summer vacation, but it appears some lawmakers are still in Harrisburg.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Home, Mortgage

• Wachovia's Brokerage Inspected by State Regulators in Auction-Rate Probe

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Bloomberg 

  Wachovia Corp. 's securities division was inspected by a team of regulators from more than five states who delivered subpoenas today as part of a probe into the company's sales of auction-rate bonds.

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Advertising, Boston University, Pennsylvania

National Headlines

• Sales of Existing Homes Nonexistent

  2 min ago | via Huliq.com 

  Sales of US existing homes fell 2.6% to an annualized rate of 4.86 million from a 4.99 million pace the prior month.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Home Selling, Housing, Real Estate

• Banks step up Fed borrowing, Wall Street passes

  2 min ago | via The Flint Journal 

  Banks stepped up their borrowing over the past week from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program, while Wall Street firms didn't draw such loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Jobless claims jump as housing market gets weaker

  3 min ago | via Marin Independent Journal 

  Two cornerstones of the economy - jobs and housing - sank to new depths Thursday, with unemployment claims bolting higher and home prices recording one of their steepest drops on record.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures

• Gloomy day for U.S. markets

  3 min ago | via The Globe and Mail 

  The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped 34,000 last week, the Labor Department said, in part reflecting seasonal volatility typical at this time of year, but also indicating ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Home Selling, Stamford, CT, New Haven Metro

• Md. Woman Charged In Tax Scandal

  3 min ago | via NewsChannel 8 

  A real estate agent from Prince George's County has been charged in a scheme that prosecutors believe defrauded the D.C. tax office out of nearly $50 million.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Clinton, MD, University of the District of Columbia