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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

• ARNOLD: McCaskill to sponsor foreclosure clinic

  Jun 10, 2008 | via Wentzville Journal 

  With nearly 20,000 Missourians expected to lose their homes by the end of 2009, U.S. Sen. 9 comments

  Related Topix: Jefferson County, MO, Arnold, MO, US Politics, US News, Claire McCaskill, US Senate, Democrat, Foreclosures

• Cedar Hill: Flood buyouts to proceed

  May 27, 2008 | via Wentzville Journal 

  Although Tom Lyons' home in Stovesand Subdivision in Cedar Hill didn't fare as bad in the flood waters as his neighbors' homes, he will still be moving out of harm's way.

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  Related Topix: Cedar Hill, MO, FEMA, US News, Home, Mortgage

• St. Louis Real Estate-Market Watch April 20th, 2008

  Apr 20, 2008 | via St. Louis Real Estate Voice 

  St. Louis Real Estate Market Watch by Art Wagner @ Keller Williams Realty Southwest, Sunset Hills, Mo.

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  Related Topix: Sunset Hills, MO, Real Estate, Jefferson County, MO

• Holiday house tours offer look at architectural gems

  Dec 12, 2007 | via Herald-Standard 

  Jeffrey Wilhelm sits in the parlor of his Brownsville home, one of five homes and a historic building that are open for tours Saturday.

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  Related Topix: Monongahela, PA, Brownsville, PA, Home Listing, Home

Regional Headlines

• Economy not looking so bad, as viewed from the farm

  Sunday Jul 20 | via Tuscola County Advertiser 

  The U.S. housing crisis looks pretty distant when viewed from the cornfields of middle America, although land values pushed up by record commodity prices also evoke past booms that ended in bust.

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  Related Topix: Missouri, Home, Mortgage

• Matthew Wilson Learns His Fate

  Friday Jul 18 | via MyFox St. Louis 

  Matthew Wilson convicted of restraining, robbing and sexually abusing a real estate agent last year in St.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Missouri

• Springfield hosts Missouri Association of REALTORS® meeting

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Springfield News Leader 

  REALTORS from all over Missouri traveled to Springfield for the Missouri Association of REALTORS Quarterly Business Conference June 24 through June 26.

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  Related Topix: University of Illinois System, Springfield Metro, Springfield, MO, Missouri, Real Estate, Foreclosures

• Mortgage Meltdown

  Monday Jul 14 | via KMIZ 

  Mortgage buyers Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are still working to escape the fate fellow lender IndyMac suffered Friday.

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

• Belgian brewer InBev to buy Anheuser-Busch for $52B

  Monday Jul 14 | via Earthlink 

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Missouri, The College of New Jersey, The College of Wooster

National Headlines

• Sales of Existing Homes Nonexistent

  1 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

  1 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

  2 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

  2 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

  2 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