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• Washington Profits From Foreclosures

  Monday Apr 28 | via Realty Trac 

  There's a new initiative on the table in Washington, one that could do a lot to reduce foreclosures nationwide while actually generating a profit for Uncle Sam.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank, Democrat, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

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• Online Auctions: Good Sense for Buyers and Sellers

  21 hrs ago | 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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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home

• Economic uncertainty

  11 hrs ago | via LA Daily News 

  THE prognosis on the local economy, according to a study from CSUN's San Fernando Valley Economic Research Center, is positive, with local businesses expecting to grow in 2008.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Northridge, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Education, People

• State Senate OKs bill to fund real estate fraud units

  15 hrs ago | via Los Angeles Times 

  Alarmed that real estate fraud is contributing to California's mortgage foreclosure crisis, the state Senate voted Thursday to allow counties to increase fees for filing property purchase documents to beef up ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Los Angeles County, CA

• Review urges ending fee on condo sales

  20 hrs ago | via LA Daily News 

  Angelenos selling condominiums shouldn't have to pay the city $150 to fund an affordable-housing process that has never produced homes for low-income residents, according to a review by city officials.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Los Angeles, CA

• Cedar Funding sued to block sale

  Yesterday | via Monterey County Herald 

  A new lawsuit was filed Wednesday on the heels of several others against a Monterey mortgage investment firm. 8 comments

  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Monterey County, CA, Los Angeles County, CA

• A big slice of REO pie

  Yesterday | via Inman 

  By Glenn Roberts Jr. , Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Real estate brokerage company ZipRealty reported in its first-quarter earnings today that real estate transactions involving short sales, foreclosures and real ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• Teachers give job prospects an 'F'

  5 hrs ago | via CNN Money 

  Jonathan Hash, a history teacher at Herbert Hoover High School in San Diego, is enthusiastic about the teaching career he began two years ago.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Texas, Family, Kids, California, California Government

• Calif. Senate OKs fee to prosecute real estate fraud

  17 hrs ago | via KESQ 

  The state Senate has approved a bill to let counties increase real estate filing fees by $1 to help fund prosecutions for housing fraud.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, California Government, California

• Hard numbers: The economy is worse than you know

  18 hrs ago | via Free Republic 

  Ever since the 1960s, Washington has gulled its citizens and creditors by debasing official statistics, the vital instruments with which the vigor and muscle of the American economy are measured.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, California, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Social Security

• It's Feast Or Famine In California

  Wednesday | via The Housing Bubble Blog 

  The Union Tribune reports from California. "Job losses, rising gas prices and continuing weakness in the real estate market will plague San Diego County's economy for months to come, according to a forecast ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, San Diego County, CA, Foreclosures, California

• U.S. housing collapse spreads overseas

  Sunday Apr 13 | via International Herald Tribune 

  DUBLIN : The collapse of the housing bubble in the United States is mutating into a global phenomenon, with real estate prices down from the Irish countryside and the Spanish coast to Baltic seaports and even ...

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  Related Topix: California, Foreclosures, Wakefield, England, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

• Citigroup to shed nearly $500B in assets

  1 min ago | via Newsday.com 

  Citigroup Inc. said Friday it aims to shed about $500 billion in assets and grow revenue by 9 percent over the next few years, as it tries to rebound from massive losses tied to deterioration in the mortgage ...

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

• Tiahrt Votes Against his own Mother...Literally

  12 min ago | via Kansas Democratic Party 

  No, we're not kidding and yes, Mother's Day is this Sunday. As reported in The Washington Post : On Wednesday afternoon, the House had just voted, 412 to 0, to pass H. Res.

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  Related Topix: Todd Tiahrt, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Home, Mortgage

• Countrywide falls on worry over B of A merger

  15 min ago | via Reuters 

  Countrywide Financial Corp shares fell nearly 6 percent on Friday on renewed speculation that Bank of America Corp will renegotiate or cancel its agreement to buy the largest U.S. mortgage lender.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Home, Mortgage, Banking, Bank of America

• Mortgage repossession orders up 17% - PA

  15 min ago | via Guardian Unlimited 

  Lenders have come under pressure to do more for struggling homeowners after the number of people threatened with losing their homes rose to its highest level for 16 years.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

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

  17 min ago | 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, 27, today ...

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