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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

• Mischievous bill on legal advertisements

  Jun 13, 2008 | via The Morning Call 

  There's no industry in the state more aware of the growing power of the Internet than newspapers. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Montgomery, PA, Northampton, PA, Foreclosures, Lehigh County, PA, Opinion

• Attorney General Corbett files lawsuit in mortgage scheme that bilked locals

  May 23, 2008 | via Easton Express-Times 

  Posted by Staff and wire reports May 23, 2008 12:37PM Wesley A. Snyder Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett filed a lawsuit today seeking restitution for hundreds of homeowners who said they were ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Northampton County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Harrisburg Metro, Harrisburg, PA

• Valley's top employers thriving

  May 4, 2008 | via The Morning Call 

  The economic news in recent months has been consistently bleak: stock market volatility, the mortgage crisis, record-high gasoline prices, layoffs. 3 comments

  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Trexlertown, PA, Allentown, PA, Lehigh County, PA

• Agency offers mortgage counseling

  Apr 16, 2008 | via The Morning Call 

  A local anti-poverty agency will offer a new counseling program aimed at helping homeowners with subprime mortgages avoid foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Northampton County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, California, PA, Housing, Wilson, PA, Foreclosures

• Housing slump may cost school district $2.6 million

  Apr 8, 2008 | via The Morning Call 

  Just when the Bethlehem Area School officials thought they had cut their way out of $5.5 million budget hole, the national housing bust has come knocking.

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  Related Topix: Bethlehem, PA, Real Estate, Housing, Northampton County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Education Etc.

Regional Headlines

• Senators find Pittsburgh casino is in dire shape

  Friday | via Luminary 

  State senators asking questions Thursday about the rescue of a financially troubled Pittsburgh casino project by other investors found the situation more complicated and dire than they originally thought. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Mortgage, Home

• Regional economy shows improvement

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

  Despite weaknesses in parts of the housing and retail sectors, the economy in the Federal Reserve's Fourth District, which includes Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and parts of Kentucky and West Virginia, improved ...

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Mortgage, Home

• Economic Watchdog, July 21

  Monday Jul 21 | via Optionetics 

  The economy might take a backseat to earnings news this week, but there still are several reports that could impact trading.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Pennsylvania, Financial Markets, Home Selling, Housing

• Dundee Homeowners Choose To Auction House

  Sunday Jul 20 | via KETV 

  Some Omaha homeowners are waiting months to sell their homes, but a family in Dundee intends to sell their in an instant.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Pennsylvania, Home Listing, Home

• State Capitol Roundup for July 18

  Friday Jul 18 | via Tony Phyrillas 

  I thought the Legislature was on its 2-month summer vacation, but it appears some lawmakers are still in Harrisburg.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Congress passes mortgage aid bill

  4 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

  6 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

  7 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

  9 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