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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

• 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

• 84 Lumber posts profit for May

  Friday Jul 11 | via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

  Washington County professional building supply company 84 Lumber Co. posted a profit for May, the first monthly profit of this year.

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

• SPRINGDALE : Second suspect arrested in deadly 2007 bar fight

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Herald-Leader 

  The second of two men charged in the death of a Springdale real estate agent in a bar fight last year has been caught at the U. S.-Mexico border.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Washington County, AR, Springdale, AR

• Home sales in Pittsburgh region drop again

  Jun 20, 2008 | via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

  The laws of economic gravity continue to pull the number of home sales in Pittsburgh into a downward spiral.

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  Related Topix: Pittsburgh Metro, Housing, Butler, PA, Washington, PA

• State wants jobs money back

  Jun 6, 2008 | via Http 

  Pennsylvania officials offered Nationwide Appraisal Services Corp. $300,000 in December 1999 to add more than 300 jobs in its Washington County office.

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  Related Topix: Washington County, PA, Castle Shannon, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

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

• Editorial: Cloudy prospects

  2 min ago | via Business Standard 

  Oil prices have dipped a good 15 per cent in the last few days, and suddenly the forecasts on oil prices talk of a dip, not a further rise in prices.

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

• Housing, jobs send stocks skidding

  2 min ago | via SI.com 

  Renewed fears about the battered housing market and rising unemployment sent stocks into a tailspin Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing

• On the Market: Chad Rogers's Beverly Hills Listing

  3 min ago | via CurbedLA 

  Last week, everyone met Chad Rogers , one of the real estate agents behind the forthcoming "Million Dollar Listings," Bravo's new television show about three "hot" Los Angeles real estate agents.

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  Related Topix: Beverly Hills, CA, Real Estate, Los Angeles, CA, Million Dollar Listing, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television

• PricewaterhouseCoopers: Credit and mortgage crisis cause companies to delay public offerings

  3 min ago | via International Herald Tribune 

  NEW YORK : PricewaterhouseCoopers on Thursday reported that the number of initial public offerings for the first half of the year has fallen to a four-year low because of turbulent market conditions.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Accounting, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Visa Inc., Financial Markets

• Credit Suisse profit plunges 62%, less than analysts said

  4 min ago | via The Taipei Times 

  Credit Suisse has been able to cut risky positions a bit faster than probably the average in the sector.

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  Related Topix: Insurance, Credit Suisse Group, Home, Mortgage, Banking, Financial Services, Ubs Ag