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• Online Auctions: Good Sense for Buyers and Sellers

  Thursday | via Realty Trac 

  It's no secret that more people are buying more products through online auctions, and real estate is no exception.

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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home

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• Online Auctions: Good Sense for Buyers and Sellers

  Thursday | via Realty Trac 

  It's no secret that more people are buying more products through online auctions, and real estate is no exception.

  Comment?

  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home

• Home foreclosures in Pittsburgh region set new record

  Friday Apr 25 | via PittsburghLIVE.com 

  Foreclosures during the January-March quarter of 2008 set a new record in the five-county Pittsburgh region with 1,187 houses lost by homeowners through this action, a local real estate tracking company ...

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

• Loans give 84 Lumber breathing room

  Tuesday Apr 22 | via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

  Yesterday, 84 Lumber Co. locked in a little protection against the tumultuous credit and housing markets with two five-year financing packages worth a total of close to $590 million.

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  Related Topix: Florida, Home, Mortgage

• Ex-fire chief gets probation

  Saturday Apr 19 | via O-R Online 

  The former chief and secretary-treasurer of Taylorstown Volunteer Fire Department was sentenced to four years of probation Friday after paying back the majority of money he stole from the department's coffers.

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  Related Topix: Taylorstown, PA, Claysville, PA, Washington County, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Man Flown To Pittsburgh Hospital After Crashing Truck On I-79 Near Houston

  Thursday Apr 10 | via ThePittsburghChannel.com 

  Interstate 79 has reopened after a box truck overturned near Houston, Washington County.

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  Related Topix: Washington County, PA, Houston, PA, Pittsburgh Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• February foreclosures rise here, elsewhere in region

  Mar 27, 2008 | via O-R Online 

  Washington County saw home foreclosures increase in February, according to a reading from an area real estate tracking company.

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  Related Topix: Washington County, PA, Foreclosures, Beaver County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA

• Pending homes sales fall, productivity up

  Wednesday | via MSN Money 

  Contracts to buy previously owned U.S. homes fell in March and businesses, faced with a slump in demand, slashed worker hours in the first quarter to increase productivity and safeguard profits, data on ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Pennsylvania, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Fed 'rogue operation' spurs further bailout calls

  Tuesday May 6 | via Fulton County Daily Report 

  Ben Bernanke threw out a safety net, much like that to Bear Stearns, to halt "a potential crisis in the student -loan market." A month after the Federal Reserve rescued Bear Stearns Cos.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, Financial Markets, Pennsylvania, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ben Bernanke, Opinion

• Countrywide Financial admits loan officers made errors

  Tuesday May 6 | via The Florida Times-Union 

  Mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp., which is under investigation for inflating certain borrowers' fees, acknowledged Tuesday that it has made errors and pledged to take steps to improve its operations.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Mortgage-Free, but Not Free From the Temptation to Borrow

  Saturday May 3 | via HendersonvilleNews.com 

  Florabel Kinsler, a clinical social worker in Los Angeles, has paid off her mortgage and says she can comfortably manage in her house.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Pennsylvania

• Bernanke, Geithner Facing More Bailout Demands After `Rogue' Bear Rescue

  Friday May 2 | via Bloomberg 

  A month after the Federal Reserve rescued Bear Stearns Cos. from bankruptcy, Chairman Ben S. Bernanke got an S.O.S. from Congress.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, Financial Markets, Pennsylvania, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Real Estate Numbers with an Agenda: How that Hurts the South Lake Tahoe Real Estate Market.

  2 min ago | via Lake Tahoe Real Estate 

  The article below about a recent spotting of the not-rare-enough High Sierra Real Estate Jackass suggests it's probably a good time to review the abc's of reporting real estate numbers again.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, South Lake Tahoe, CA

• Seattle Bank Announces First Quarter 2008 Financial Results

  23 hrs ago | via PR-inside.com 

  The Seattle Bank reported $31.5 million of net income for the first quarter of 2008, compared to $10.6 million for the first quarter of 2007.

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

• Mortgage credit losses may total $500 billion

  14 min ago | via Gulf Daily News 

  NEW YORK: Goldman Sachs economists expect a total of $500 billion in residential mortgage credit losses, a renewed slowdown in economic activity after the near-term boost from fiscal stimulus, and no monetary ...

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  Related Topix: Investment Banking, Financial Services, Bear Stearns, Investment Services, Goldman Sachs Group, Housing, Home, Mortgage

• Bigger Pockets if you Wholesale to Owner Occupants

  16 min ago | via Real Estate Investing for Real 

  If you are looking for bigger pockets RIGHT NOW, your concentration should be focused on wholesaling real estate deals to buyers who are looking to occupy the property, and helping them secure the financing ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Losing a Home, Then Losing All Out of Storage

  38 min ago | via Newsalert 

  The New York Times reports: The foreclosure crisis is hitting yet another American locale: the self-storage center.

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