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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

Regional Headlines

• People in Business

  Yesterday | via The Tennessean 

  The National Association of Realtors awarded Irene Leonard of the Sumner County office of Bob Parks Realty LLC the designation of Realtor e-PRO. Vanessa Schimmels has joined Village Real Estate Services as an ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Marketing, Housing, Tennessee

• RealtyTrac: Memphis No. 25 in foreclosures

  Monday Jul 21 | via Memphis Business Journal 

  Memphis ranks 25th in foreclosures and Tennessee ranks 13th, according to second quarter data RealtyTrac Inc.

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  Related Topix: Tennessee, Foreclosures

• HOUSING: May 2008 foreclosures in your area

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via WBIR-TV Knoxville 

  As East Tennesseans struggle to make ends meet in a tough economy, some are losing their American Dream.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Tennessee

• First Horizon Execs Trumpet Efforts to Buck Losses

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via The Daily News 

  First Horizon National Corp., the Memphis-based parent company of First Tennessee Bank, has seen more than 50 percent of its share price evaporate since the beginning of this year.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Tennessee, Opinion

• More

  Friday Jul 18 | via The Daily News Journal 

  Unemployment in Tennessee edged up by one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.5 percent in June compared to a month earlier, keeping the jobless rate here a full percentage point higher than the nation's rate.

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  Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law, Tennessee Government, Tennessee, Knoxville (University of Tennessee System), University of Tennessee System, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Housing rescue passes

  7 min ago | via Martinsville Bulletin - Martinsville, Virginia 

  The candidates for the 5th District House seat in the November election differ on the merits of the housing legislation passed by Congress last week.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Banks rally as CEOs hold off on shares

  3 hrs ago | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  With many banks still reporting massive writedowns and even quarterly losses from bad mortgage investments, it certainly seems like an odd time for financial stocks to rally.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Wachovia Corporation, Merrill Lynch and Co, Investment Services

• Mortgage firm rescue bill awaits Bush's OK

  3 hrs ago | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000 struggling homeowners Saturday as part of an election-year housing plan that also aims to calm jittery financial markets and bolster the sagging economy.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, George Bush, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Financing completed for Pa. shopping center

  3 hrs ago | via CourierPostOnline 

  Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust has completed a $54 million financing of Paxton Towne Centre in Harrisburg, Pa.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, Harrisburg, PA, Home, Mortgage

• Local communities sit half-built, fully troubled

  3 hrs ago | via News Press 

  Michael and Judith Van Dress have a lot of privacy and not a lot of competition when they use the brand-new fitness center at their condominium in Concordia.

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  Related Topix: Cape Coral, FL, Housing, Lee County, FL, Naples Metro