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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

• Official-looking letters not always from Calif. government

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via ScrippsNews 

  When Bonnie Garcia opened the official-looking letter in her home mailbox, she was bothered.

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  Related Topix: California State University System, Imperial County, CA, Cathedral City, CA, Foreclosures

• Fallout ripples through econonmy with contractors struggling

  Jun 3, 2008 | via Desert Sun 

  LOS ANGELES - Robert Lindsey was not surprised by new data last week that showed new home sales have fallen more than 40 percent from their peak almost three years ago.

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  Related Topix: Housing, San Francisco Metro, San Francisco Metro, Calexico, CA, Imperial County, CA, Los Angeles Metro

• Congressman Bob Filner Hosts Town Clinic to Provides Resources for Heber Residents

  May 30, 2008 | via Holtville Tribune 

  On Saturday, May 31st, Congressman Bob Filner will host a Town Clinic to provide important information, resources and counseling on home ownership and foreclosure to Heber residents.

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  Related Topix: Imperial County, CA, Heber, CA, US Politics, Bob Filner, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Coachella Valley Housing Coalition struggles to keep up with demand for affordable housing

  Mar 25, 2008 | via Desert Sun 

  LA QUINTA - Thousands of families are on waiting lists for affordable housing in the Coachella Valley, leaving a local agency struggling to keep pace with the growing numbers.

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  Related Topix: Indio, CA, Riverside County, CA, Home, Mortgage, La Quinta, CA, Home Buying, Imperial County, CA

• TOT increase headed for November ballot

  Feb 21, 2008 | via Feather River Bulletin 

  In a special workshop of the Plumas County Board of Supervisors Feb. 4, members directed staff to do some research on a possible amount.

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  Related Topix: Portola, CA, Housing, Holtville, CA, Imperial County, CA, Fresno County, CA, Sanger, CA

Regional Headlines

• Report: Grand jury investigating subprime lenders

  1 hr ago | via The Record 

  A federal grand jury reportedly is investigating the nation's largest subprime mortgage lenders, Countrywide Financial Corp., New Century Financial Corp.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Home, Mortgage, California

• Don't Let Them Slash Your Credit-Card Limits

  3 hrs ago | via WTVF Nashville 

  As big banks such as Wachovia, Citigroup and Bank of America continue to post multimillion-dollar writedowns to cover mortgage loan losses and other bad investments, credit-card holders are increasingly getting ...

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

• Resets begin peaking on subprime loans

  4 hrs ago | via Ledger Dispatch 

  The number of homeowners facing an increase in their subprime adjustable-rate mortgage payments will peak this summer, testing the efforts of lenders and others to keep those people out of foreclosure and ...

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

• Subprime Today: National City posts record loss

  8 hrs ago | via MarketWatch 

  Each morning, Subprime Today provides a summary of MarketWatch's financial coverage as well as stories from other news outlets, providing links to those original articles.

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  Related Topix: National City Corporation, Banking, Financial Services, MarketWatch, Startups, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

• Focus on foreclosures

  10 hrs ago | via San Bernardino County Sun 

  Help may be on the way for homeowners, banks and communities hit hard by the mortgage crisis after the House of Representatives approved a relief package on Wednesday. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Claremont Graduate University, Claremont Consortium of Colleges, California, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

National Headlines

• Discounted mortgage notes can stop foreclosures

  3 min ago | via Business Standard 

  Where politicians and bankers see vexing liabilities in defaulted mortgages and foreclosures, Robert Lee sees opportunities as he picks up the pieces of the housing bust.

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  Related Topix: Huntington Beach, CA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Closing Market ... Dow "283.10 ... S&P "29.65 ... Nasdaq "45.77

  5 min ago | via Cleveland.com 

  Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower today after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market's recent ...

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

• Stocks Tumble After Sales of Existing Homes Fall; Dow Down 283 Points

  5 min ago | via ArkansasBusiness.com 

  The major indexes fell about 2 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost more than 275 points.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, The National, Entertainment, Television, Real Estate, Home, Housing, Home Selling

• Housing Market Legislation Update

  5 min ago | via Business Law Prof Blog 

  On Wednesday, President Bush dropped his opposition to the current housing market legislation despite his objections to a $3.9 billion provision.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• US House to help homeowners

  7 min ago | via The Taipei Times 

  AIDING MORTGAGE GIANTS: The House of Representatives voted to pass a bill that will provide liquidity to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with some denying it is a bailout AP, WASHINGTON Friday, Jul 25, 2008, Page 7 ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, George Bush, US Politics, US News, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance