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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

• MURRIETA: Lenders' absence hampers foreclosure workshop

  Friday Jul 18 | via The Californian 

  City leaders who organized a recent foreclosure workshop expressed frustration this week that few lenders turned out to participate in the discussion.

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  Related Topix: Riverside County, CA, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Mary Bono, Murrieta, CA, Home, Mortgage

• Agents find challenge, opportunity in market

  Saturday Jul 19 | via Desert Sun 

  The term "foreclosure" often evokes images of rundown homes and yellowed yards.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Riverside County, CA, Salton City, CA, Desert Hot Springs, CA, Real Estate

• Inland rents start to level off, report says

  Friday Jul 18 | via The Press-Enterprise 

  After coping with years of strong rent growth, Inland Southern California apartment dwellers are getting relief.

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  Related Topix: California, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, Housing, University of California System, San Bernardino, CA

• Home sales increase in Inland Empire

  Thursday Jul 17 | via KABC 

  The housing market meltdown that has had a dire impact across Southern California is seeing a turnaround in the Inland Empire.

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  Related Topix: San Bernardino County, CA, Riverside County, CA, Housing, Foreclosures, Home Listing, Home

• Southland home prices plunge

  Thursday Jul 17 | via San Gabriel Valley Tribune 

  Southern California's housing woes continued in June as prices plunged more than 29 percent from a year earlier and sales remained at a two-decade low, an industry tracker said Wednesday. 4 comments

  Related Topix: Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, CA, Orange County Metro, Riverside County, CA, Housing

Regional Headlines

• Editorial: The other shoe looms

  3 hrs ago | via Sacramento Bee Newspaper 

  The latest bad news factoid is that foreclosures in California are at a 20-year high.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, California, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

• Broker drops lawsuit over sale of Southern California...

  3 hrs ago | via AMNY 

  Washington Mutual Inc., who was Rep. Laura Richardson's lender, announced Friday that James York's suit against her and the bank had been resolved, the Torrance Daily Breeze reported.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, California, Banking, Washington Mutual, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Mayor backs out of gay rights event

  9 hrs ago | via L.A. Observed 

  I received an email statement Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa this morning that announced he would skip tonight's banquet in San Francisco for the Human Rights Campaign, a mainstream gay community group that raises ...

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  Related Topix: California, Transgendered, Gay/Lesbian, Housing, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• State home sales up 18%

  19 hrs ago | via LA Daily News 

  Home sales across California jumped nearly 18 percent during June compared with a year earlier as discounted foreclosures lured buyers back into the real-estate market, a trade association said Friday.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles Metro, Los Angeles Metro, Housing, California, Real Estate, Foreclosures

• Median home prices fall by 6.1% in county

  20 hrs ago | via Pasadena Star-News 

  Los Angeles County's median home price fell 6.1 percent last month to $396,560 and was off a record 32.3 percent from a year earlier, the California Association of Realtors reported Friday.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles County, CA, Real Estate, California, San Gabriel, CA, Hacienda Heights, CA

National Headlines

• Congress passes mortgage aid bill

  7 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

  9 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

  10 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

  12 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