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• Will The Paulson Plan Reduce Foreclosures

  Sunday Apr 20 | via Realty Trac 

  That's the cry in a lot of quarters now that the Federal Reserve has become the savior of Wall Street, the buyer of last resort for tainted mortgage-backed securities. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Foreclosures, US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

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• Online Auctions: Good Sense for Buyers and Sellers

  Thursday May 8 | via Realty Trac 

  It's no secret that more people are buying more products through online auctions, and real estate is no exception.

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• Capital Grille

  12 hrs ago | via The Pitch 

  There are reasons for Capital Grille's popularity, though. The service is impeccable, the portions are gigantic and chef Ray Comisky's kitchen is particularly masterful with lamb, Delmonico steaks and veal ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Movers & Shakers: Monday's biggest gaining and declining stocks

  21 hrs ago | via MarketWatch 

  Shares of the following companies were among those that made notable moves in the U.S. stock market Monday.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Retail, Apparel, Ann Taylor Stores, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Graham-Welch & Associates: Western Wyandotte communities are booming

  Saturday | via Kansas City Star 

  Four western Wyandotte County communities marketed by Graham-Welch Associates have experienced booming home sales for the past year, according to the marketing agents, who attribute their success to prime ...

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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Housing, Wyandotte County, KS, Bonner Springs, KS, Kansas City, KS

• ANB Financial Fails; Federal Regulators Close Bank

  Saturday May 10 | via ArkansasBusiness.com 

  ANB Financial NA of Bentonville was closed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was named Receiver, according to a news release issued by the FDIC .

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Little Rock, AR, Home, Mortgage, Banking

• Elderly KC man victim of nearly three-year-long fraud, authorities say

  Friday May 9 | via KansasCity.com 

  A Kansas City man allegedly swindled an elderly man out thousands of dollars before a relative learned what was going on and notified authorities.Jackson County prosecutors charged Richard Rambua, 47, today ...

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  Related Topix: Kansas City, MO, Family, Elderly, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Is the Keating Five scandal off limits?

  Saturday May 10 | via The Carpetbagger Report 

  Last night, at an Obama town-hall event in Oregon, Rep. Pete DeFazio was rather candid in his criticism of John McCain, and broached a subject we generally hear very little about.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Missouri, John McCain, 2008 Presidential Election

• Townhomes at Shoal Creek Valley: Garbett Homes introduces Northland townhomes

  Friday May 9 | via Kansas City Star 

  Garbett Homes has announced the grand opening of its luxury townhome community, priced from $174,900. The Townhomes at Shoal Creek Valley feature 64 homes in what the developer described as an innovative ...

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Missouri, Housing, Home Listing, Home

• How to avoid foreclosure

  Friday May 9 | via Columbia Missourian 

  Options exist for people facing foreclosure issues or whose names are penned on loan documents for an adjustable-rate mortgage , loan officers and brokers say.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Missouri

• Misleading Solicitations That Appear to Come from Consumers' Banks

  Friday May 9 | via Kansas City InfoZine 

  Attorney General Jay Nixon says Missourians are receiving letters in the mail offering mortgage insurance, refinancing and other services.

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  Related Topix: Missouri, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Missouri Government

• Nixon Warns of Mortgage Scam

  Thursday May 8 | via OzarksFIRST.com 

  If you get a letter in the mail offering mortgage insurance, refinancing, or other services - it may not really be from your bank.

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Missouri Government, Missouri

• Your Morning Credit Crunch: Brownsville Sinking

  2 min ago | via Curbed 

  For instance, the May issue of the Real Deal offers a detailed look at the subprime meltdown from the vantage point of Brooklyn's Brownsville .

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  Related Topix: Brooklyn, NY, New York, NY, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures

• Bernanke: Financial turmoil in markets easing

  3 min ago | via The Seattle Times 

  Turmoil in financial markets has eased somewhat, but the situation is still "far from normal," Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Sea Island, GA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Sub-prime mortgage collapses: unintended consequences

  3 min ago | via Illinoisreview 

  "The sub-prime mortgage collapse is another tale of unintended consequences. The crisis has its roots in the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, a Carter-era law that purported to prevent 'redlining' ---denying ...

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• Bernanke says markets healing but still not well

  5 min ago | via WNED.org 

  U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday that emergency Fed liquidity measures have helped relieve strain in financial markets, but the recovery process remains incomplete.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Median home prices drop in many cities

  6 min ago | via KVIA 

  The National Association of Realtors says median home prices fell in two-thirds of the cities surveyed during the first three months of this year.

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