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• Whose Hurt With Declining Market Labels

  Sunday | via Realty Trac 

  It all started late last year when both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac announced a new loan standard for "declining markets." From now on, said the nation's largest mortgage buyers, if a local market is "declining" ...

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

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• Foreclosure Activity Increases 4 Percent in April

  Tuesday May 13 | via Realty Trac 

  Foreclosure filings - default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions - were reported on 243,353 properties, a 4 percent increase from the previous month and a nearly 65 percent increase from April ...

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  Related Topix: Vallejo, CA, Vallejo Metro, Foreclosures

• Home sales rise in Riverside County

  2 hrs ago | via Press-Enterprise 

  Riverside County last month saw the first year-over-year sales increase since 2006, as bargain hunters streamed into a market rife with foreclosures.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles Metro, Crest, CA, August, CA, Housing, Real Estate, Corona, CA

• Housing bust hits bottom?

  5 hrs ago | via San Diego Union-Tribune 

  After months of grim reports of slumping sales and free-falling prices, San Diego County's housing market showed signs of life in April with sales up 33.3 percent from March and the median price back at the ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Riverside County, CA, La Mesa, CA, San Diego County, CA, Home, Home Selling

• Home sales rise in Southern California

  10 hrs ago | via Daily Breeze 

  Home sales surged 22percent in Southern California during April as bargain-hunters bought lower-end homes in areas hardest hit by foreclosures, a research firm said Monday.

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  Related Topix: Housing, August, CA, Foreclosures, Riverside County, CA

• SoCal Home Sales Jump 22% in April

  18 hrs ago | via Time 

  Home sales surged 22 percent in April in Southern California as bargain-hunters bought lower-end homes in areas hardest hit by foreclosures, a research firm said Monday.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, Riverside County, CA

• Riverside County has second year of housing sales increase

  22 hrs ago | via The Press-Enterprise 

  Riverside County last month saw the first year-over-year increase in sales in more than two years, as bargain hunters streamed into a market rife with foreclosures.

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  Related Topix: August, CA, Housing, Riverside County, CA, Foreclosures, Riverside Metro

• Mom forced to live in car with dogs

  1 hr ago | via SI.com 

  Barbara Harvey climbs into the back of her small Honda sport utility vehicle and snuggles with her two golden retrievers, her head nestled on a pillow propped against the driver's seat.

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  Related Topix: California, Foreclosures, California Government

• More Schools To Face Law's Consequences

  3 hrs ago | via KFMB-TV San Diego 

  Pink slips for principals and teachers. School-funded tutoring for poor kids. Schools are increasingly looking at those kind of consequences for failing to raise math and reading scores.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Family, Kids, Education Etc., California

• State says mortgage fund owner loaned himself $38 million

  4 hrs ago | via San Diego Daily Transcript 

  The California Department of Real Estate says the owner of Cedar Funding loaned $38 million to himself and one of his businesses from the firm's mortgage fund without telling investors.

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  Related Topix: California, Mortgage, Home

• Home sales rise in Southern California area

  8 hrs ago | via San Jose Mercury News 

  Home sales surged 22 percent in Southern California in April compared with March, as bargain-hunters bought lower-end homes in areas hardest hit by foreclosures, a research firm said Monday.

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  Related Topix: Housing, California, August, CA, Foreclosures, Los Angeles Metro, San Bernardino, CA

• Calif. home sales perk up

  11 hrs ago | via Reno Gazette-Journal 

  California home sales surged in April, with the Sacramento area seeing its first year-over-year sales increase in more than three years.

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  Related Topix: California, Sacramento County, CA, Real Estate

• TSX index briefly exceeds 15,000 for first time

  4 min ago | via CTV.ca 

  The Toronto Stock Exchange set a new record Tuesday morning, surpassing 15,000 points for the first time.

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  Related Topix: York (Toronto, ON), Canada, Toronto, ON, Ontario, Home, Mortgage, Financial Markets

• AIG raising $20B in capital, plans asset sales

  5 min ago | via New York Business.com 

  Nearly a year after it began, the credit crisis continues to grind on, with American International Group Inc.

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  Related Topix: Insurance, American International Group, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Homeowners upset over unfinished neighborhood

  6 min ago | via WFAA-TV Dallas 

  North Texas homeowners in one neighborhood are demanding change. Already hit hard by the housing crisis, many fear they are getting hit hard again, this time by their homeowners association.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Princeton Meadows, NJ

• "Vultures" tour foreclosed homes

  6 min ago | via Reuters Video 

  A bus tour introduces prospective buyers to foreclosed homes in a New York suburb.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Mutual Funds, Personal Finance, Video, Business News

• Senate panel OKs homeowner rescue

  8 min ago | via WIVB-TV Buffalo 

  A key Senate panel has approved a homeowner rescue plan to give cheaper, government-backed mortgages to up to 500,000 strapped borrowers.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage