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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

• Durango businesses look to YouTube

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via Durango Herald 

  A handful of Durango businesses are taking tentative steps to advertise on YouTube, using the video-sharing Web site as another venue to reach potential customers.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Internet, Science / Technology, Durango, CO

• Rentals in Durango are tough to find

  Saturday Jul 19 | via Durango Herald 

  Rentals in Durango's already tight market have become considerably scarcer in recent months, sending rents higher and frustrating college students, property managers interviewed this week said.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Durango, CO, Home, Mortgage, University of Denver

• Housing prices rise in Durango

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Durango Herald 

  Durango defied national real-estate trends in the second quarter of 2008, as the median price of homes sold actually increased 10.3 percent.

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  Related Topix: Bayfield, CO, Housing, Hesperus, CO, Durango, CO, Real Estate

• Insurance required for some owners

  Sunday Jul 6 | via Durango Herald 

  Vallecito homeowners who now find themselves in the 100-year floodplain will be required to buy flood insurance - if they carry a mortgage.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, FEMA, US News

• Top Five Ways To Fail As A Commercial Real Estate Investor In The Coming Economic Storm

  Jun 22, 2008 | via Real Estate Investing for Real 

  I am getting ready to take twenty kids from my youth group up to Durango, CO for the Christ In Youth Conference .A I think I am more excited than my high school kids are..it is always a blast.A I am so grateful ...

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Regional Headlines

• GRIEGO: Mortgage crisis finally hits home

  Thursday | via Rocky Mountain News 

  GRIEGO: Mortgage crisis finally hits home By Tina Griego , Rocky Mountain News Thursday, July 24, 2008 The county assessor lists the house as 11/2 stories, three bedrooms, two baths, built in 1907 and purchased ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home Listing, Foreclosures, Colorado

• Foreclosures slam the door on some family pets

  Wednesday | via 9NEWS 

  VIEW SLIDESHOW DENVER - As families continue to lose their homes to foreclosure in Colorado, family pets are also suffering the consequences of these tough times.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Denver Metro, Colorado, Denver Metro

• Hard sale for resorts

  Monday Jul 21 | via Denver Post 

  They started small. A one-bedroom condo in East Vail. That quickly doubled in value, so Ted and Connie Fullhart stepped up to a duplex in the tony Singletree community in Edwards.

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  Related Topix: Edwards, CO, Telluride, CO, Breckenridge, CO, Real Estate, Colorado, University of Colorado System

• Officials mull aid to help people pay their utility bills

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Rocky Mountain News 

  Cherise Smith, with daughter, Desiree, 8, by her side, is facing a power shut-off. Gov.

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  Related Topix: University of Colorado System, Foreclosures, Colorado, Colorado Government, Xcel Energy, Energy

• Grand Junction economy shows symptoms of national slump

  Monday Jul 14 | via Grand Junction Free Press 

  An economic malaise that has spread throughout the country and rekindled fears of a recession seems to have been unable to penetrate the region's Teflon-like safety barrier provided by the oil and natural gas ...

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  Related Topix: Colorado, Colorado College, Colorado Government, Real Estate

National Headlines

• Collar counties' sales, median home prices up in June

  17 min ago | via Courier News 

  Home sales in the collar counties picked up in June from May sales figures, and the median sale prices edged up as well, according to the Illinois Association of Realtors' latest report.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Illinois, Real Estate

• Dollar mixed against major currencies

  17 min ago | via People's Daily 

  The dollar was mixed against major currencies on Friday as U.S. sales of new homes were slightly better than expected in June.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Housing

• Two gas bill hikes now on the way Increases expected to total 40pc in six months

  18 min ago | via Irish Independent 

  HOUSEHOLDS face two 20pc increases in their gas bills over the next six months, the Irish Independent can reveal.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Top lender under fire over new mortgage fee

  18 min ago | via Irish Independent 

  A LEADING mortgage lender has broken ranks with other banks and decided to start charging a fee to customers who seek a better-value mortgage.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Senate close to passing housing aid

  19 min ago | via Lubbock Avalanche 

  Homeowners struggling to make their house payments could get government mortgage relief under a rescue plan that seeks to revive the chaotic housing market and help reverse the economic downturn.

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