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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

• Home sellers try different tactics to lure buyers

  3 hrs ago | via Grand Rapids Press 

  Home construction continued its steep decline in West Michigan during the second quarter, although a few builders say there are signs of renewed activity.

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  Related Topix: Ada, MI, Ottawa County, MI, Housing, Kent County, MI

• Household appliance maker Whirlpool says profit down 27 percent, blames higher costs

  Yesterday | via International Herald Tribune 

  GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan : Household appliance maker Whirlpool says its profit fell 27 percent in the second quarter due to higher material and oil-related costs and lower U.S. demand.

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  Related Topix: Grand Rapids, MI, Grand Rapids Metro, Benton Harbor, MI, Benton Harbor Metro, Financial Markets, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Public Notice Mortgage Sale - Peninsula Group, Incorporated

  Yesterday | via Leelanau Enterprise 

  This is an attempt to collect a debt, and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

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  Related Topix: Grand Rapids, MI, Grand Rapids Metro, Suttons Bay, MI, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Michigan

• West Michigan banks score as "troubled or problematic"

  Monday | via WWMT-TV Kalamazoo 

  As customers of the failed bank IndyMac are pushing to get their money back, several West Michigan banks turn out to be troubled.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, Michigan, Grand Rapids Metro, Grand Rapids, MI, Kalamazoo, MI

• GRBJ: Area Industrial Property Market Improving

  Monday Jul 21 | via WZZM-TV Grand Rapids 

  We hear a lot about the state of the residential real estate market but another segment of the market appears to be making a turnaround.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Grand Rapids, MI, Grand Rapids Metro, Wyoming, MI

Regional Headlines

• Existing home sales fall 2.6% in June

  14 hrs ago | via Detroit Free Press 

  Home sales continued to decline nationwide in June and inventories rose, the National Association of Realtors reported this morning.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Real Estate, Housing, Home Listing, Michigan

• West Michigan home sellers try different tactics to lure buyers

  8 hrs ago | via Ann Arbor News 

  Redstone Group Sales Consultant Jennifer Krzykwa, center, talks with Ellen and Richard Erdmann, of Grandville, on Wednesday at a wine and art open house at Aberdeen Ridge Condominiums.

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  Related Topix: Grandville, MI, Home Building, Home, Ada, MI, Housing, Michigan, Ottawa County, MI

• Suite Talk July 24, 2008

  11 hrs ago | via Washington Examiner 

  Jonathan L. Kempner, president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, is stepping down at the end of the year.

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  Related Topix: Michigan, Mortgage, Personal Finance, George Washington University

• Business news briefs

  16 hrs ago | via Clinton County News 

  Independent Bank Corp. swung to a profit during the second quarter. The bank, which has a regional office in East Lansing, reported Wednesday it earned $3.35 million, or 15 cents per share, for the three-month ...

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Independent Bank, Home, Mortgage, Michigan

• Housing Crisis Help for MI

  19 hrs ago | via WLNS-TV Lansing 

  A major housing rescue plan that had previously been under a presidential veto threat gets President Bush's stamp of approval and the new law could have a big impact in Mid-Michigan. As Lauren Thompson reports, ...

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

National Headlines

• Discounted mortgage notes can stop foreclosures

  4 min ago | via Business Standard 

  Where politicians and bankers see vexing liabilities in defaulted mortgages and foreclosures, Robert Lee sees opportunities as he picks up the pieces of the housing bust.

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  Related Topix: Huntington Beach, CA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Closing Market ... Dow "283.10 ... S&P "29.65 ... Nasdaq "45.77

  5 min ago | via Cleveland.com 

  Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower today after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market's recent ...

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

• Stocks Tumble After Sales of Existing Homes Fall; Dow Down 283 Points

  6 min ago | via ArkansasBusiness.com 

  The major indexes fell about 2 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost more than 275 points.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, The National, Entertainment, Television, Real Estate, Home, Housing, Home Selling

• Housing Market Legislation Update

  6 min ago | via Business Law Prof Blog 

  On Wednesday, President Bush dropped his opposition to the current housing market legislation despite his objections to a $3.9 billion provision.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• US House to help homeowners

  8 min ago | via The Taipei Times 

  AIDING MORTGAGE GIANTS: The House of Representatives voted to pass a bill that will provide liquidity to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with some denying it is a bailout AP, WASHINGTON Friday, Jul 25, 2008, Page 7 ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, George Bush, US Politics, US News, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance