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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

• Briefing

  Saturday Jul 19 | via The Morning Call 

  A former Berks County mortgage broker sentenced to 12 years in federal prison for a scheme that cost customers millions will appeal his sentence.

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  Related Topix: Berks County, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Federal Prisons, Oley, PA, Westmoreland County, PA

• Westmoreland Co. mortgage broker accused of fraud

  Friday Jul 18 | via York Dispatch 

  Federal prosecutors say a Westmoreland County man diverted nearly $1 million in mortgage loans for personal use.

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  Related Topix: Westmoreland County, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• 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

• Keller Williams Realty to buy Ligonier business

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Pittsburgh Tribune 

  A group of real estate industry professionals that includes the owner of the Keller Williams Realty North brokerage in Pine is in negotiations to buy Glenn Cook Real Estate, a well-known company based in ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Westmoreland County, PA, Ligonier, PA

• Murin becomes president of mortgage association

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  Joseph J. Murin of Collier has become the 16th president of the Government National Mortgage Association, one of the nation's major secondary mortgage agencies, and known as Ginnie Mae.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, George Bush

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

• Home sale news sends Dow down more than 200 points

  6 min ago | via Houston Chronicle 

  Wall Street has abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales wiped away some of the market's optimism.

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  Related Topix: Rubber-Plastics, Manufacturing, Dow Chemical, Chemicals, Home, Home Selling, Real Estate, Housing, Financial Markets

• Home sales at 10-year low, jobless claims jump

  7 min ago | via Reuters 

  Jobless claims jumped and the pace of existing home sales tumbled to a 10-year low as slowing growth hit hiring and a glut of unsold houses weighed on real estate, data released on Thursday showed.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Housing, Real Estate, Financial Markets, Mortgage

• Accounting change not meant to shock: SEC's Cox

  7 min ago | via Reuters 

  An accounting change that could force banks to bring trillions of dollars of off-balance sheet transactions back on their books will be implemented in a way that will not create unnecessary shocks, the chairman ...

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

• REALTORS Hail Housing Bill

  8 min ago | via Realtor Magazine 

  Today's passage of The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 by the House of Representatives will help bring stability to the housing market and stem the rising rate of foreclosures, according to the ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank, Democrat, Los Angeles Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Boston Papers Probe Story of Woman Who Killed Herself -- On Verge of Losing Home

  8 min ago | via Editor & Publisher 

  NEW YORK For many months, E&P has been reporting on the surge in suicides among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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