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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

• Families' 'healing' begins with building Habitat homes

  3 hrs ago | via The Peninsula Gateway 

  A team of Habitat volunteers lift a wall into place during the house-framing frenzy Friday.

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  Related Topix: Fox Island, WA, Home, Mortgage, Pierce County, WA, Family, Kids

• first deal nearly closed - Awesome product' still a tough sell

  Friday Jul 18 | via The News Tribune 

  A second-floor condo at The Esplanade on the Foss Waterway in Tacoma comes with granite counters.

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  Related Topix: Pierce County, WA, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Seattle Metro, Tacoma, WA

• Foreclosure filings up nearly 70% in state

  Thursday Jul 10 | via The Seattle Times 

  Washington state foreclosure filings were up 69 percent last month compared with the previous June and up almost 10 percent from May, as the mortgage meltdown continues despite government and private efforts to ...

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  Related Topix: Pierce County, WA, Snohomish County, WA, King County, WA, Home, Mortgage

• Sellers could soon have their market

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Tacoma News Tribune 

  The median home price in Pierce County continued to drop in June but so, too, did the number of homes awaiting buyers.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Pierce County, WA, Snohomish, WA, Puyallup, WA

• Puyallup and Pierce County Real Estate Statistics

  Monday Jun 23 | via Puyallup Undressed 

  These statistics are going to be no big surprise to anyone. They mostly represent the same things we have been seeing.

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  Related Topix: Pierce County, WA, Puyallup, WA, Housing

Regional Headlines

• Treasury Notes Drop on Stock Gains, Outlook for Wider U.S. Budget Deficit

  Yesterday | via Bloomberg 

  Treasury 10-year notes fell for a second day as stocks advanced and a government rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spurred concern the budget deficit will grow.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Washington, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

• Real Estate Tourists Venture Out on "Foreclosure Safari"

  Sunday Jul 20 | via KIMA 

  It's a safari unlike any you've seen before-- it's in your neighborhoods. More than 40 people took a bus tour of foreclosed homes around the Tri-Cities Saturday.

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

• Bush claims privilege to withhold CIA leak records

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Tri-cityherald.com 

  President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 15, 2008, where he called on Congress to move quickly to put into force legislation designed to prop up mortgage ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae, George Bush, Washington, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Top Story: Plame Games Continue: Bush Claims Executive Privilege On CIA Leak

  Thursday Jul 17 | via ABC News 

  The Associated Press 47 comments President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 15,... President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae, Washington, George Bush, US News, State of the Union

• Law skewed in favor of builders

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

  For the past two years, I've offered a bill in the state Senate that attempts to level the playing field between home buyers and builders.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Thurston County, WA, Olympia Metro, Olympia, WA, Washington, Opinion

National Headlines

• Sales of Existing Homes Nonexistent

  1 min ago | via Huliq.com 

  Sales of US existing homes fell 2.6% to an annualized rate of 4.86 million from a 4.99 million pace the prior month.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Home Selling, Housing, Real Estate

• Banks step up Fed borrowing, Wall Street passes

  1 min ago | via The Flint Journal 

  Banks stepped up their borrowing over the past week from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program, while Wall Street firms didn't draw such loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Jobless claims jump as housing market gets weaker

  1 min ago | via Marin Independent Journal 

  Two cornerstones of the economy - jobs and housing - sank to new depths Thursday, with unemployment claims bolting higher and home prices recording one of their steepest drops on record.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures

• Gloomy day for U.S. markets

  1 min ago | via The Globe and Mail 

  The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped 34,000 last week, the Labor Department said, in part reflecting seasonal volatility typical at this time of year, but also indicating ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Home Selling, Stamford, CT, New Haven Metro

• Md. Woman Charged In Tax Scandal

  1 min ago | via NewsChannel 8 

  A real estate agent from Prince George's County has been charged in a scheme that prosecutors believe defrauded the D.C. tax office out of nearly $50 million.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Clinton, MD, University of the District of Columbia