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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

• Challenge remains to provide affordable housing for workforce

  Mar 5, 2008 | via The Enterprise 

  What is the top economic development challenge facing St. Mary's County? Answers will certainly vary, but a consensus response would be the availability and affordability of housing.

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  Related Topix: Patuxent River, MD, Housing

• O'Malley stresses frugality in State of State

  Jan 25, 2008 | via The Independent 

  Facing an unstable economic climate and still reeling from a special legislative session last November that damaged his approval ratings, Gov.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Riverdale, MD, Helen, MD, Brooklyn, MD, Churchton, MD, Cheltenham, MD

• Staging a house to sell fast in a slowing market

  Jan 2, 2008 | via The Independent 

  Homeowner Dee Hardesty, left, hired Teri Short of Lexington Park, a ''home stager," to help prepare her home for the best possible sale.

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  Related Topix: Helen, MD, Lexington Park, MD, Home, Home Selling, Real Estate, Home Listing

Regional Headlines

• Frederick County wants to tackle vacant homes, shaggy lawns

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via WTOP 

  Frederick County might step in to help alleviate the housing crisis. Next week, the Frederick County Commissioners plan to discuss a new law to prevent overgrown lawns.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Maryland

• Foreclosure rules take effect Wednesday

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Daily Record 

  New foreclosure-procedure rules go into effect Wednesday that require lenders to provide direct notice to delinquent homeowners before taking possession of and selling their homes.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Maryland Government, Maryland, Foreclosures

• Foreclosure in court

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via The Baltimore Sun 

  Maryland's highest court will convene today for a hearing on changes to foreclosure rules that would conform with new legislation that gives homeowners more notification and a longer waiting period before their ... 11 comments

  Related Topix: Maryland Government, Maryland, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• The Daily Dose: Monday

  Monday Jul 21 | via SNL Financial 

  Mapletree Logistics Trust Management Ltd., manager of Mapletree Logistics Trust, announced that the company's total amount distributable for the quarter was S$22.6 million, an increase of 28.2% from S$17.7 ...

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  Related Topix: World News, United Arab Emirates, Middle East, Maryland, Real Estate

• An economic prescription

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Baltimore Sun 

  Reading recent headlines, it might be easy to conclude that the economy is in a death spiral. 21 comments

  Related Topix: Maryland Government, Maryland, Weather, Housing, Opinion

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

  4 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