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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Leading the way for community banks

  2 hrs ago | via Daily Inter Lake 

  Jack King, a founder of Valley Bank, and his sons John King and A.J. King , all have served as president of Montana Independent Bankers, which marked its 40th year at its conference last weekend in Kalispell.

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  Related Topix: Flathead County, MT, Somers, MT, Kalispell, MT, Montana, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Citizens lose in 'doughnut' debate debacle

  Thursday | via Whitefish Pilot 

  After attending the July 16 public hearing where the Flathead County Planning Board exercised its brand new jurisdictional rights to take over for the Whitefish City-County Planning Board for determining ...

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  Related Topix: Flathead County, MT, Real Estate, Whitefish, MT

• Property tax reappraisals by the numbers

  May 29, 2008 | via Lake County Leader & Advertiser 

  There are still lots of questions about the new property tax appraisals. As most of you know, Montana re-appraises property every six years and 2002 was the last.

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  Related Topix: Polson, MT, Kalispell, MT, Real Estate

• The Cost of Living in Missoula

  May 3, 2008 | via KPAX 

  Housing prices keep rising in Missoula In Part I of our series we look at the fact that the cost to buy a house in Missoula is one of the highest in the nation Missoula houses out of reach for first responders ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Missoula, MT, Missoula Metro

• Is It Quieter Than It Was? Yes, Way Quieter

  Feb 22, 2008 | via The Housing Bubble Blog 

  The Flathead Beacon reports from Montana. "With 252 foreclosures, Flathead County had the highest foreclosure rate of any county in the state last year, according to RealtyTrac.

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  Related Topix: Flathead County, MT, Housing, Lothair, MT

Regional Headlines

• Bankers survey shows support for mortgage bailout

  Thursday Jul 17 | via KPAX 

  Most rural bank CEOs surveyed in Montana and 10 other states support a federal bailout of mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the event of financial collapse.

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  Related Topix: Montana, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Mortgage reforms will save Canadians from U.S.-style woes

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Calgary Herald 

  By the upper reaches of the Missouri in Montana, runs an arm of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway.

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  Related Topix: Montana, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Regulations needed in nation's lending industry

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Great Falls Tribune 

  Montana Department of Revenue Director Dave Bucks told a legislative panel last week Montana is dodging the national housing crisis.

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  Related Topix: Housing, The College of New Jersey, The College of Wooster, The College of Idaho, The University of Findlay, Montana

• Revenue chief: State dodges housing crisis

  Friday Jul 11 | via Great Falls Tribune 

  HELENA - Wise mortgage decisions and a relatively strong economy have largely kept the state's housing market above national turmoil, the director of the Montana Department of Revenue said Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Montana, Housing, Foreclosures, Real Estate

• High-priced oil means it's time to relocate

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via The Billings Outpost 

  Bicycling around town, digging and planting and weeding our garden, not climbing into the car for four whole days, I didn't think once about the price of gasoline.

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  Related Topix: Home Gardening, Home, Montana, Mortgage, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Congress passes mortgage aid bill

  2 min ago | via North County Journal 

  It took fears of a market collapse to push President George W. Bush and Congress to compromise on election-year mortgage help for struggling homeowners.

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

• Lawsuit dropped over SoCal congresswoman's home

  5 min ago | via Fox News 

  A man who paid $388,000 for a congresswoman's home dropped a lawsuit that claimed she got special treatment when a bank rescinded the foreclosure, it was reported Saturday.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Banking, Washington Mutual, Home, Mortgage, Housing

• Raise a glass of best Chateau Sucker

  5 min ago | via Irish Independent 

  Frankly, I've been getting tired of all the bad news. Every day brings new reports of job losses, price increases, industrial collapse, increasing debt, stock exchange plunges, pension erosion and general ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Train Disaster, Opinion

• US shuts down two more banks

  7 min ago | via Times of Oman 

  WASHINGTON: The US Treasury has shut down two affiliated western banks as the impact of the US real estate crash rolls through the country's financial institutions.

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  Related Topix: Reno, NV, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• A healthy market

  3 hrs ago | via The Daily Advertiser 

  The home buying boom in Lafayette is leveling off, and with national stories of lending disasters and foreclosures tempering the market, local builders are trying to assure potential buyers.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Baton Rouge, LA, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Lafayette, LA