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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

• Business Happenings

  Jan 14, 2008 | via KXMB-TV Bismarck 

  Home sales in the Bismarck-Mandan area continue to remain strong. Last year the homes sold in the multi listing service totaled 1,805. This is one more than were sold in the area in all of 2006.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home Listing, Home, Home Selling, Real Estate, Mandan, ND, Pilates, Fitness, Fitness

• Around Town: 1/11

  Jan 11, 2008 | via KXMB-TV Bismarck 

  The housing market in Bismarck-Mandan is still going strong. The Board of Realtors says eighteen hundred and five homes were sold in 2007.

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  Related Topix: Mandan, ND, Home, Home Selling, Bismarck Metro, Bismarck, ND, Pilates, Fitness

• December 8, 2003 - Observations from a Small Volume Builder: Ten Secrets to Success

  Dec 8, 2003 | via Nation's Building News 

  After 20 some years in the building business, I started to ask myself, "What is the key to success?" A good floor plan, good site design, management, adequate capital, perseverance - all of these are important.

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

• Habitat For Humanity Home Dedication

  Jan 6, 2008 | via KFYR-TV Bismarck 

  Habitat for Humanity helps low income families across the country to live the American dream.

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  Related Topix: Bismarck Metro, Bismarck, ND, Mandan, ND, Home Listing, Family, Kids

• Mandan man found dead is remembered as caring

  Dec 28, 2007 | via Bismarck Tribune 

  There's a shirt in their closet that smells like him, like his cologne. So she will go into the closet periodically to hug his shirt, said Christy Ames, 36, of Mandan, who then started to cry again Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Bismarck Metro, Bismarck, ND, Mandan, ND, Home Listing, Home

Regional Headlines

• "About that Mortgage, Senator . . ." [Dodd, Conrad]

  Friday Jun 27 | via Free Republic 

  NEW YORK TIMES: "About that Mortgage, Senator . . ." It turns out that the chieftain of Countrywide -- which is smack in the middle of the mortgage mess -- extended privileged borrowing status to two Senators, ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, North Dakota

• Kent Conrad Rushing To Explain Away Countrywide Scandal Before It Grows Legs In North Dakota

  Jun 19, 2008 | via KXMA-TV Dickinson 

  Jun 20 2008 12:00AM http://sayanythingblog.com/index.php Via a friendly source in the North Dakota media comes this soon-to-be-published op/ed from Kent Conrad which seeks to defend the Senator on the ...

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  Related Topix: North Dakota Government, North Dakota, US Politics, Kent Conrad, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Fill up your intellectual tank here at NRO.

  Jun 18, 2008 | via National Review 

  DEFAULT IN THE SENATE. The Editors decry the corruption in the Senate with the Countrywide Financial bailout: The U.S. Senate is about to enact a massive subsidy for Countrywide Financial less than a week after ...

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, North Dakota, Barack Obama, Financial Services, Countrywide Financial

• Senators tied to special mortgage deals

  Jun 15, 2008 | via The Tennessean 

  WASHINGTON - Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher J. Dodd, a leader of Congress' efforts to help homeowners ensnared in the subprime mortgage meltdown, reportedly got special treatment on his own ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Home, Mortgage, US Politics, Kent Conrad, US News, US Senate, Democrat, North Dakota

• North Dakota Housing Market

  Apr 21, 2008 | via KFYR-AM Bismarck 

  DAVID FLYNN SAYS THE MARKET IS AFFECTED BY NEWS OF FALLING PRICES AND RISING HOME MORTGAGE FORECLOSURES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

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  Related Topix: North Dakota, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Home

National Headlines

• Congress passes mortgage aid bill

  1 min ago | via North County Journal 

  It took fears of a market collapse to push President George W. Bush and Congress to compromise on election-year mortgage help for struggling homeowners.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Housing, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Lawsuit dropped over SoCal congresswoman's home

  4 min ago | via Fox News 

  A man who paid $388,000 for a congresswoman's home dropped a lawsuit that claimed she got special treatment when a bank rescinded the foreclosure, it was reported Saturday.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Banking, Washington Mutual, Home, Mortgage, Housing

• Raise a glass of best Chateau Sucker

  4 min ago | via Irish Independent 

  Frankly, I've been getting tired of all the bad news. Every day brings new reports of job losses, price increases, industrial collapse, increasing debt, stock exchange plunges, pension erosion and general ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Train Disaster, Opinion

• US shuts down two more banks

  6 min ago | via Times of Oman 

  WASHINGTON: The US Treasury has shut down two affiliated western banks as the impact of the US real estate crash rolls through the country's financial institutions.

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  Related Topix: Reno, NV, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• A healthy market

  3 hrs ago | via The Daily Advertiser 

  The home buying boom in Lafayette is leveling off, and with national stories of lending disasters and foreclosures tempering the market, local builders are trying to assure potential buyers.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Baton Rouge, LA, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Lafayette, LA