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• High-End Foreclosures Rising Among Top Tier Homes

  Monday Jun 30 | via Realty Trac 

  Until now, the foreclosure crisis was confined to a narrow niche of middle-class urban communities and outer-rim new housing developments where first-time homeowners and real estate speculators benefited ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Foreclosures exceed total for last year

  Saturday Jun 28 | via CulpeperNews.com, Culpeper, VA 

  Six months into the year and it's already worse than last year. Through June 13, a total of 187 properties - including 27 vacant lots in town - went into foreclosure this year in Culpeper, county records show.

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  Related Topix: Amissville, VA, Culpeper, VA, Culpeper County, VA, Foreclosures

• Commercial project managed by Angler declares bankruptcy

  Jun 9, 2008 | via CulpeperNews.com, Culpeper, VA 

  For the second time in seven months, a local project managed by Angler Development is in bankruptcy.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Culpeper County, VA, Culpeper, VA

• Culpeper considering 7-cent tax increase

  Apr 1, 2008 | via Fredericksburg.com 

  Culpeper County Administrator Frank Bossio suggested advertising a 14-cent real-estate tax-rate increase that had wiggle room to the downward side.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Culpeper County, VA, Culpeper, VA

• Uptick in foreclosures no cause for alarm, experts say

  Jan 23, 2008 | via Rappahannock News 

  School funding bills clear first hurdles Two bills that might allow Rappahannock County to gain greater state funding for education passed through committees in the Virginia ... Planners support scaled-back ...

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  Related Topix: Fort Valley, VA, Culpeper County, VA, Culpeper, VA, Amissville, VA, Home, Mortgage

• The house is always packed for county EMS

  Dec 19, 2007 | via Culpeper Times 

  Culpeper County Source: Culpeper Times WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19 2007 UPDATED WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19 2007 Company 12 What: Rescue service overseen by Culpeper County, with paid medics operating 24 hours a day.

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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Culpeper County, VA

Regional Headlines

• Wildlife attracted to suburbs

  Yesterday | via Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 

  Wildlife have come to enjoy life in the 'burbs for the same reasons mortgage-paying residents have.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Virginia, Home Listing

• Covering Rented Homes

  Yesterday | via WHSV-TV Harrisonburg 

  With the rise in foreclosures, more and more people are looking into renting homes these days.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Virginia

• Most of Virginia remains in throes of housing slump

  Friday | via WSLS-TV Roanoke 

  The housing slump continues in most parts of Virginia, with the exception of a few areas, including the Piedmont.

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  Related Topix: Virginia, Richmond, VA, Real Estate, Housing, Loudoun County, VA, Prince William County, VA

• Editor Takes the Plunge, Goes Through Licensing Process

  Thursday Jul 24 | via Sun - Gazette 

  Listen up, you top producers out there: you some day could have competition in the world of real estate.

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  Related Topix: Merrifield, VA, Real Estate, Virginia

• Experts gather to figure out how to decrease Virginia's foreclosure rate

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via WDBJ7 

  July 23, 2008 Experts gather to figure out how to decrease Virginia's foreclosure rate Virginia's foreclosure rate is rising faster than the national average.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Virginia, Virginia Government

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,

  2 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

  3 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