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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

• Check before offering a hand

  Monday Jun 23 | via Glasgow Daily Times, Glasgow, KY 

  Q: My husband and I are having a disagreement about whether or not to offer to help our daughter and her family.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Tompkinsville, KY, Glasgow, KY

• (ADV) Check Adair County Real Estate through ColumbiaMagazine.com

  Jun 16, 2008 | via Columbia Magazine 

  Check Adair County Real Estate through ColumbiaMagazine.com There's some great listings with Adair County's Real Estate agents right now in Adair County.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Housing, Columbia, KY

• Adair couple Raising Bison, Opening Shop To market Meat

  Jun 2, 2008 | via Adair Progress 

  At first glance, one might think that buffalo meat, a women's fitness center, a Christian gift shop, tanning beds and Smoothies wouldn't have much in common.

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  Related Topix: Columbia, KY, Pikeville, KY, Real Estate, Adair County, KY

• Today, Fri. May 9, 2008: LWC baccalaureate at 7:00pmCT

  May 9, 2008 | via Columbia Magazine 

  EVENTS: Spotlighting, in brief, today's events for Day 130 of 2008 . Today: Absentee voting machine open 8:00am-4:00pm, Adair Annex Today: No ACPL Bookmobile run today.

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  Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Mother's Day, Beech Grove, KY, Housing, Adair County, KY, Columbia, KY

• Today, Tues., May 6, 2008: 51st Dist. Rep. forum, ACHS

  May 5, 2008 | via Columbia Magazine 

  EVENTS: Spotlighting, in brief, today's events for Day 127 of 2008 . Today: Absentee voting machine open 8:00am-4:00pm, Adair Annex 9:00amCT: Ladies Day at Pinewood Country Club 11:00amCT: Grand Group meets at ...

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  Related Topix: Columbia, KY, Housing

Regional Headlines

• Bunning criticizes support for mortgage giants

  Tuesday | via Independent 

  U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning again condemned a support package for troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, saying the plan backed by the Bush administration "smacks of socialism." In his weekly conference ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Jim Bunning, Kentucky

• Central Kentucky's housing market shows resiliency

  Saturday Jul 19 | via Lexington Herald-Leader 

  Fewer people in The Bluegrass are signing their names to home mortgages, but if you have the money, now might be the perfect time to buy.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Lexington Metro, Lexington, KY, Housing, Home Selling, Kentucky

• 'No housing bust here, just a leveling off'

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Marshall County Tribune-Courier 

  'No housing bust here, just a leveling off' By Misti Strader Tribune-Courier News Editor mstrader@tribunecourier.com BENTON - Plummeting home prices nationwide have caused concern among local buyers and ...

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  Related Topix: Benton, KY, Housing, Real Estate, Foreclosures, Kentucky, Home Listing, Home

• Home foreclosures down in Kentucky

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Lexington Herald-Leader 

  Home foreclosure filings declined nearly 2 percent in Kentucky and 3 percent nationwide in June, RealtyTrac said Thursday.

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

• Housing outlook stays gloomy

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Kentucky.com 

  Signs are emerging that the U.S. housing market's long slump is likely to continue through the summer, and might not recover for at least another year.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Real Estate, Housing, Kentucky, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

National Headlines

• Discounted mortgage notes can stop foreclosures

  5 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

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

  7 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

  7 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

  9 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