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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

• Local votes split on congressional housing bill

  13 hrs ago | via The News-Journal 

  The impact of Congress' housing bill on Volusia and Flagler counties could go either way, helping to prop up an ailing housing market or creating slums.

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  Related Topix: US News, Housing, Foreclosures

• State's financial forecast: bad and worse

  Friday Jul 18 | via The News-Journal 

  Florida's economic slump is worse than state economists had predicted earlier this year, and now they say it'll last about six months longer than previously expected.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Florida, Florida Government

• 2-county foreclosures increase

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  Court filings related to foreclosures totaled 1,135 in Volusia and Flagler counties in June.

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  Related Topix: Daytona Beach, FL, Volusia County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Housing nearing bottom?

  Thursday Jun 26 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  Falling home prices are encouraging more home sales and possibly signal a bottoming out of the declining housing market.

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  Related Topix: New Smyrna Beach, FL, Volusia County, FL, Florida, Flagler County, FL, Real Estate, Housing

• Decline in home sales slows in Volusia and Flagler

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  The regional slide in existing homes sales slowed again in May, according to figures released today by the Florida Association of Realtors.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Volusia County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Real Estate

Regional Headlines

• Home sales continue slide

  26 min ago | via The Miami Herald 

  With the local economy on the ropes and the number of borrowers behind on their mortgages rising, South Florida median home prices and sales continued sliding last month, falling an average 20.5 percent in ...

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, University of Miami, Real Estate, Housing, Foreclosures, Home Listing

• Mortgages

  1 hr ago | via Daily Business Review 

  That's one of the explanations in a 40-page response to a Miami Herald investigation, which found that more than 10,000 people with criminal records were permitted to work in Florida's mortgage industry between ...

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  Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Florida To Address Criminals In Mortgage Industry

  1 hr ago | via Tampa Bay Online 

  The head of a state agency that allowed thousands of criminals to sell home loans in Florida has acknowledged that his office did not follow a screening law, but blamed legislators for failing to provide money ...

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  Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• McCollum "not ready" to say whether battered mortgage chief should go

  3 hrs ago | via El Sentinel 

  Next Tuesday is bound to be a bloodletting when the Florida Cabinet meets to decide the fate of embattled Office of Financial Regulation chief Don Saxon . 1 comment

  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Florida, Florida Government

• FAR: South Florida home sales continue decline

  Monday Jul 21 | via South Florida Business Journal 

  Year-over-year single-family home sales and prices declined again in June, across South Florida and the state, a Florida Association of Realtors report showed.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, West Palm Beach, FL, Florida, Miami Metro, Fort Myers, FL, Cape Coral, FL

National Headlines

• Home sale news sends Dow down more than 200 points

  6 min ago | via Houston Chronicle 

  Wall Street has abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales wiped away some of the market's optimism.

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  Related Topix: Rubber-Plastics, Manufacturing, Dow Chemical, Chemicals, Home, Home Selling, Real Estate, Housing, Financial Markets

• Home sales at 10-year low, jobless claims jump

  7 min ago | via Reuters 

  Jobless claims jumped and the pace of existing home sales tumbled to a 10-year low as slowing growth hit hiring and a glut of unsold houses weighed on real estate, data released on Thursday showed.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Housing, Real Estate, Financial Markets, Mortgage

• Accounting change not meant to shock: SEC's Cox

  7 min ago | via Reuters 

  An accounting change that could force banks to bring trillions of dollars of off-balance sheet transactions back on their books will be implemented in a way that will not create unnecessary shocks, the chairman ...

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  Related Topix: Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Securities and Exchange Commission, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• REALTORS Hail Housing Bill

  8 min ago | via Realtor Magazine 

  Today's passage of The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 by the House of Representatives will help bring stability to the housing market and stem the rising rate of foreclosures, according to the ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank, Democrat, Los Angeles Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Boston Papers Probe Story of Woman Who Killed Herself -- On Verge of Losing Home

  8 min ago | via Editor & Publisher 

  NEW YORK For many months, E&P has been reporting on the surge in suicides among veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

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  Related Topix: Taunton, MA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures