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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

• Long-term answers to short-term problems aren't always best

  Monday Jul 14 | via MansfieldNewsJournal.com 

  The recent U.S. Senate passage of a mortgage rescue plan, following a House version in May, could help communities and agencies battle a crisis of foreclosures, abandoned homes and blight.

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  Related Topix: Cleveland, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Opinion

• Bold idea on the mortgage crisis

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via The Cincinnati Enquirer 

  Monday's U.S. Senate passage of a mortgage rescue plan, following a House version in May, could help communities and agencies battle a crisis of foreclosures, abandoned homes and blight.

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  Related Topix: Cleveland, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Foreclosures Become Issue in First Congressional District Race

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via WKRC-TV Cincinnati 

  That foreclosed house down the street from you is becoming an issue in the race for congress, or rather, it's the thousands of foreclosed houses in our area.

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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Foreclosures, Cincinnati, OH, Hamilton County, OH

• 1 in 10 home loans in crisis

  Jun 6, 2008 | via The Cincinnati Enquirer 

  Foreclosures spiked almost 11 percent in Southwest Ohio during the first three months of the year, and they continue to climb in Northern Kentucky, new local data show.

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  Related Topix: Clermont County, OH, Hamilton County, OH, Housing

• Foreclosures still rising here

  Jun 5, 2008 | via The Cincinnati Enquirer 

  Foreclosures rose nearly 11 percent in Southwest Ohio in the first quarter of 2008, while they also rose sharply in Northern Kentucky, too.

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  Related Topix: Clermont County, OH, Ohio, Hamilton County, OH, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• Prince William Co. Homeowners Get Help To Avoid Foreclosure

  Jun 1, 2007 | via WRC Washington DC Channel 4 

  Homeowners in Prince William County, one of the areas hardest hit by foreclosures, are seeking help to hold on to their homes, but experts say the crisis isn't over yet.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Ohio

• Housing bill clears test, foreclosure halt asked

  11 hrs ago | via The Washington Post 

  Housing market rescue legislation cleared a procedural test vote in the U.S. Senate on Friday ahead of final passage expected on Saturday, and lawmakers asked banks to suspend further foreclosures until a new ...

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  Related Topix: Ohio, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Homes in foreclosure nationally doubled in 2nd quarter; Ohio ranks 6th

  17 hrs ago | via Columbus Dispatch 

  The number of households facing the foreclosure process more than doubled in the second quarter compared to a year ago, according to data released today.

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  Related Topix: Ohio, Housing, Foreclosures

• U.S. home sales fall to lowest in decade

  18 hrs ago | via StarNewsOnline.com 

  Washington Sales of existing homes tumbled more sharply than expected in June, pushing activity nationally to the lowest level in more than a decade.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Ohio, Foreclosures

• Central Ohio foreclosure filings jump 40% in 2Q

  Monday Jul 21 | via Business First of Columbus 

  Metropolitan Columbus turned in one of the 50 highest housing foreclosure rates in the nation in the second quarter, but it fared better than most other cities in the state, RealtyTrac reported Friday.

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  Related Topix: Ohio, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Akron-area foreclosures up 59%

  9 min ago | via Akron Beacon Journal 

  The number of U.S. households facing the foreclosure process more than doubled in the second quarter compared to a year ago, according to data released Friday.

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  Related Topix: Portage County, OH, Summit County, OH, Home, Mortgage, Lorain, OH

• Real Estate Briefs: Water-test company leases in Windham

  9 min ago | via UnionLeader.com 

  Real Estate Briefs: Water-test company leases in Windham

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  Related Topix: Housing

• Sales of new homes decline less than expected

  10 min ago | via The Journal News 

  Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, but the decline was less than had been expected, raising faint hopes that the nation's severe housing recession could be ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Provisions of housing-mortgage relief bill

  11 min ago | via Fox News 

  The housing bill Congress plans to send President Bush would: _Give the Federal Housing Administration $300 billion in new lending authority and relax standards to provide affordable, fixed-rate mortgages to an ...

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

• Housing rescue on track to pass Senate

  11 min ago | via UnionLeader.com 

  The 80-13 test vote showed broad support for the election-year package and put it on track to pass the Senate by today.

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