Daytona Beach Real Estate

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• A Foreclosure Bargain for Their "Forever House"

  Wednesday May 14 | via Realty Trac 

  Karen Krynen saw an opportunity. Nestled at the top of a hill with a long private driveway, the bank-owned property sitting on a huge 40,946 square foot lot was exactly what she was looking for.

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  Related Topix: La Habra Heights, CA, Foreclosures, Home Listing, Home

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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

• Hundreds waiting for housing

  Thursday | via The News-Journal 

  Hundreds of people locally wait for low-income government housing in a bleak market compounded by a rise in foreclosures and cost of other living expenses.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, Daytona Beach, FL, Daytona Beach Metro, Home, Mortgage

• Business briefs

  Wednesday May 14 | via The News-Journal 

  Median home prices fell in two-thirds of the cities surveyed during the first three months of this year while 46 states reported experienced declining sales, a real estate trade group reported Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Retail, Tuesday Morning, Ormond Beach, FL

• Foreclosure activity jumps in area

  Tuesday May 13 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  Foreclosure activity increased again in Volusia and Flagler counties in April, with nearly 1,000 families facing possible loss of their home.

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  Related Topix: Volusia County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Daytona Beach, FL, Daytona Beach Metro, Foreclosures

• Slowdown not quite as evident in Flagler

  Monday May 12 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  Foreclosures are slamming Flagler and Volusia counties: 547 houses in Flagler were added to the default list between January and March, a 180 percent increase over the previous year.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Volusia County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Opinion

• The vacation-home buyer

  Saturday May 10 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  If Daytona's complicated real estate market could be reduced to a round of "Jeopardy!," one answer recited by Alex Trebek might be this: the beach, Disney, deep discounts and a droopy dollar.

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  Related Topix: Alex Trebek, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Ponce Inlet, FL, Volusia County, FL

• Florida still racking up foreclosures in April

  Wednesday May 14 | via Bizjournals 

  Foreclosures are back on the upswing in Florida in month-over-month data, but there is good news.

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  Related Topix: Florida, Foreclosures

• 'America's Most Wanted' notches 1,000th arrest

  11 hrs ago | via SouthFlorida.com 

  When he started America's Most Wanted , John Walsh could point to at least one thing in its favor: Society's swampland of bad people doing bad things would never run dry.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Florida, John Walsh, Entertainment, Television

• In the News: Toll-free hot line answers foreclosure questions

  Yesterday | via News Press 

  The Home Ownership Resource Center and various federal, state, local and non-profit community agencies will provide financial counseling via a toll-free hot line.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Lee County, FL, Foreclosures, Florida, Fort Myers, FL, Fort Myers Metro

• Local Officials Help Fight Foreclosure

  21 hrs ago | via FOX 4 Florida 

  With almost 10,000 foreclosures in Southwest Florida this year alone, local officials are coming together to help our families. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Florida

• Windows close on nature's rhapsody

  Yesterday | via News Press 

  The day of the year I dread the most arrived last week. It wasn't my birthday. It wasn't a dental appointment.

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Florida

• House slump: Don't shoot the messenger

  5 min ago | via The New Zealand Herald 

  View as a single page 5:00AM Sunday May 18, 2008 By Andrea Milner BNZ chief economist Tony Alexander.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Mortgage, Home

• Blue Chip investors' hopes fade

  6 min ago | via The New Zealand Herald 

  View as a single page 5:00AM Sunday May 18, 2008 By Jane Phare Hopes of a reprieve to save thousands of Blue Chip investors, some faced with bankruptcy and losing their homes, are fading fast.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Fran O'Sullivan : Fear and lolly scrambles

  6 min ago | via The New Zealand Herald 

  View as a single page 5:00AM Sunday May 18, 2008 By Fran O'Sullivan Finance Minister Michael Cullen's ninth budget will not bring home the electoral bacon for Labour.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Oceania, New Zealand, World News

• World economy is - teetering on brink' of downturn - " UN

  17 min ago | via Manila Bulletin 

  The world economy is "teetering on the brink" of a severe downturn and will grow by only 1.8 percent in 2008, the United Nations said in its mid-year economic projections.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• California second in nation for foreclosures, Sacramento to 12

  Wednesday May 14 | via Bizjournals 

  One out of every 204 households in California was in some stage of foreclosure in April, according to a report Wednesday by RealtyTrac .

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