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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

• Security Bank Corporation to Record Non-Cash Goodwill Adjustment for Second Quarter

  51 min ago | via PrimeNewswire 

  This impairment charge will have no adverse effect on: * Daily operations including FDIC coverage of customer deposits * Regulatory capital - all bank subsidiaries remain "well capitalized" * Cash flow or ...

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  Related Topix: Macon, GA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Banking, Financial Services, Security Bank

• Burlington Square Mall facing possible foreclosure

  Monday Jul 21 | via The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area 

  The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area - by Laura Youngs The Business Journal Serving the Greater Triad Area With Burlington Square Mall facing possible foreclosure and still reeling from the loss of ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Macon, GA

• Banking on hard times

  Sunday Jul 6 | via The Macon Telegraph 

  Ripples in the residential real-estate market are creating quakes for many businesses, and one that's really taking a licking is the banking industry - including some Macon-based banks.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Real Estate, Macon, GA

• Macon offering housing incentives in Fort Hill neighborhood

  Thursday Jun 26 | via The Macon Telegraph 

  Clarence Kitchens said he often wondered if he would ever become a homeowner. The 57-year-old has lived in east Macon all his life, but he could never afford to buy a house there.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Macon Metro, Macon, GA

• New Horizons to dedicate Montezuma home

  Jun 4, 2008 | via Americus Times-Recorder, Americus, Georgia 

  At 10:30 a.m. Saturday, the Macon County Habitat Chapter of New Horizons Habitat for Humanity, the Americus-based Habitat for Humanity International affiliate, will hold a house dedication ceremony for the ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Montezuma, GA, Charitable Organizations, Americus, GA, Macon, GA

Regional Headlines

• President Bush drops opposition to housing bill

  Yesterday | via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  President Bush dropped his opposition Wednesday to a broad housing package aimed at bolstering the sagging economy, despite his objections to including $3.9 billion for neighborhoods hit hardest by ...

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  Related Topix: Georgia, George Bush, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Keep the down payment assistance program

  Yesterday | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Who's to blame for the subprime mortgage crisis sweeping the nation? Wall Street bankers who've overleveraged their books by billions of dollars? Or first-time home buyers who received gifts of a few thousand ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Georgia

• Lesbian candidate advances to Georgia House runoff

  Friday Jul 18 | via Southern Voice 

  Keisha Waites made it to an Aug. 5 runoff after taking second in a crowded field for House District 61 while Kevin Clark lost his bid for state Senate District 2. Keisha Waites is one step closer to making ...

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  Related Topix: East Point, GA, Mortgage, Atlanta Metro, Georgia

• A Texas warning for Georgia banks

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Several Georgia banks dominate a recent ranking of the nation's riskiest financial institutions based on a measure known as the "Texas ratio," which attempts to gauge how likely they will run into deep ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Alpharetta, GA, Georgia

• Superior Court Clerk Candidates Q&A

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Rome News - Tribune 

  I am a Floyd County native and I began my public service career in 1975 as a deputy sheriff with the Floyd County Sheriffs Department.

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  Related Topix: Texas A&M University System, Georgia, Real Estate

National Headlines

• Discounted mortgage notes can stop foreclosures

  6 min ago | via Business Standard 

  Where politicians and bankers see vexing liabilities in defaulted mortgages and foreclosures, Robert Lee sees opportunities as he picks up the pieces of the housing bust.

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  Related Topix: Huntington Beach, CA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Closing Market ... Dow "283.10 ... S&P "29.65 ... Nasdaq "45.77

  7 min ago | via Cleveland.com 

  Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower today after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market's recent ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Housing, Home Selling, Real Estate

• Stocks Tumble After Sales of Existing Homes Fall; Dow Down 283 Points

  8 min ago | via ArkansasBusiness.com 

  The major indexes fell about 2 percent, including the Dow Jones industrial average, which lost more than 275 points.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, The National, Entertainment, Television, Real Estate, Home, Housing, Home Selling

• Housing Market Legislation Update

  8 min ago | via Business Law Prof Blog 

  On Wednesday, President Bush dropped his opposition to the current housing market legislation despite his objections to a $3.9 billion provision.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• US House to help homeowners

  10 min ago | via The Taipei Times 

  AIDING MORTGAGE GIANTS: The House of Representatives voted to pass a bill that will provide liquidity to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with some denying it is a bailout AP, WASHINGTON Friday, Jul 25, 2008, Page 7 ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, George Bush, US Politics, US News, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance