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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 Builders Association of Greater Kansas City

  6 hrs ago | via Kansas City Star 

  When Craig and Nedra Mitchell chose to build a home in Lee’s Summit, they did their homework, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Kansas City.

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  Related Topix: Home Building, Home, Mortgage

• Century 21 All-Pro: Realty companies join to improve service for wider market

  Yesterday | via Kansas City Star 

  The merger earlier this month of Carole Colson Real Estate and Century 21 All-Pro creates a realty powerhouse that its management team said is positioned to serve the busiest segments of today’s ...

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  Related Topix: Kansas City, MO, Grain Valley, MO, Housing, Jackson County, MO, Parkville, MO

• Fountains at Raintree: Several updated floor plans available

  Friday Jul 18 | via Kansas City Star 

  Several spacious floor plans are available at the Fountains at Raintree and the marketing team said each is a study in carefully designed layout that emphasizes both convenience and stylish design.Built by Glen ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home Listing, Home

• Lee's Summit Woman Sentenced for Mortgage Fraud, Identity Theft

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Kansas City InfoZine 

  Used stolen identities to purchase homes in Lee's Summit. Kansas City, MO - infoZine - John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee's Summit, Mo., woman was ...

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  Related Topix: Kansas City, MO, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Lees Summit, MO

• Missouri Woman Sentenced for Mortgage Fraud, Identity Theft

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Federal Bureau of Investigation 

  John F. Wood, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee's Summit, Mo., woman was sentenced in federal court today for a mortgage fraud scheme in which she used stolen ...

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  Related Topix: Federal Prisons, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Lees Summit, MO

Regional Headlines

• Zweifel launches first television ad

  Friday | via The Turner Report 

  Democratic State Treasurer candidate Clint Zweifel has become the first candidate for that office to launch a television ad campaign this year.

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  Related Topix: Missouri Government, Missouri, Healthcare Law, Law, Mortgage, Home

• Economy not looking so bad, as viewed from the farm

  Sunday Jul 20 | via Tuscola County Advertiser 

  The U.S. housing crisis looks pretty distant when viewed from the cornfields of middle America, although land values pushed up by record commodity prices also evoke past booms that ended in bust.

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  Related Topix: Missouri, Home, Mortgage

• Matthew Wilson Learns His Fate

  Friday Jul 18 | via MyFox St. Louis 

  Matthew Wilson convicted of restraining, robbing and sexually abusing a real estate agent last year in St.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Missouri

• Springfield hosts Missouri Association of REALTORS® meeting

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Springfield News Leader 

  REALTORS from all over Missouri traveled to Springfield for the Missouri Association of REALTORS Quarterly Business Conference June 24 through June 26.

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  Related Topix: University of Illinois System, Springfield Metro, Springfield, MO, Missouri, Real Estate, Foreclosures

• Mortgage Meltdown

  Monday Jul 14 | via KMIZ 

  Mortgage buyers Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are still working to escape the fate fellow lender IndyMac suffered Friday.

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

National Headlines

• Affordable oasis near the sea

  2 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  Turning south onto Highway 1 from Skyline Boulevard, the road climbs to the top of a hill and then - like a rollercoaster after clanking its way slowly to its summit - plunges into Pacifica.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage

• U.S. Congress approves wide-ranging housing rescue bill,

  3 min ago | via VietNamNet 

  The U.S. Congress approved on Saturday a wide-ranging housing rescue bill that will offer up to 300 billion U.S. dollars in assistance to troubled mortgage giants and homeowners.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, George Bush, 2008 Presidential Election

• Reverse mortgage leaves borrower stunned and stuck

  3 min ago | via Las Vegas Review Journal 

  Realtor Dave Berard, left, explains the terms of a reverse mortgage to William Lancaster in Lancaster's east Las Vegas home on July 17.

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  Related Topix: Social Security, Personal Finance, Las Vegas, NV, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage

• Economy Class

  4 min ago | via Journal Gazette 

  Forget leading economic indicators, corporate quarterly earnings, record-low home equity, record-high mortgage defaults and all the rest of it.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Stuck in the middle: Renters swept up in wave of foreclosures

  4 min ago | via New Haven Register 

  Aurea Ortiz, a renter on Sedgewick Street in Bridgeport, is in danger of being evicted from her home because the building is being foreclosed.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Bridgeport, CT, Bridgeport Metro, New Haven Metro, New Haven Metro, New Haven, CT