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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

• Developer's prizes in foreclosure

  Friday Jul 11 | via RecordOnline.com 

  Robert Carchietta earned a reputation in the city as a developer who finished big projects after he turned around the Armory building and then the old Woolworth's building on Broadway.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Newburgh, NY, Orange County, NY

• Orange County's home prices, sales keep on sliding

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Middletown Times Herald Record 

  Orange County's median home sale price plunged 12.9 percent in June, according to data released Tuesday by the Orange County Association of Realtors.

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  Related Topix: Orange County, NY, Housing, Real Estate, Wallkill, NY, Home Listing, Home

• Most folks in Otisville understand change

  Monday Jul 7 | via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record 

  We are working stiffs who wonder how on earth we will pay for gas, mortgages and heat.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Orange County, NY, Middletown, NY, Otisville, NY

• Seminars For Buying Your First Home

  Apr 23, 2007 | via The Real Estate Bloggers 

  Perusing the web this morning I came across this article on a seminar put on in Orange County, New York on buying your first home.

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  Related Topix: Orange County, NY, Foreclosures

• Forecast says affordable housing plans have about 18 months

  Jun 12, 2008 | via Journal News 

  The Hudson Valley has about 18 months to put in place serious plans for affordable housing before the next run-up in prices complicates that task.

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  Related Topix: Poughkeepsie, NY, Housing, Pawling, NY, Dutchess County Metro, Dutchess County, NY, Orange County, NY

Regional Headlines

• Fitch Rates $100MM San Diego County (CA) Ser 2008B 'AA/F1+'

  Friday | via PR-inside.com 

  The long-term 'AA' rating reflects the county's very low debt burden, sound financial operations, and very strong and effective financial and debt policies, as well as concern over the economic and financial ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Financial Markets, New York

• NYC jury convicts former Haitian paramilitary leader in scheme to cheat mortgage lenders

  Friday | via Newsday.com 

  A Brooklyn jury found Emmanuel "Toto" Constant guilty on Friday of fraud and grand larceny.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, New York

• Irwin shares soar after loan sale

  Friday | via IBJ.COM 

  Columbus-based Irwin Financial Corp. shares rose 25 percent this morning, in the first trading session since the company announced late yesterday that it was scaling back its exposure to the battered mortgage ...

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  Related Topix: New York, Irwin Financial, Banking, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• N.Y. jury convicts ex-Haitian strongman of fraud

  Friday | via Buffalo News 

  A once-feared Haitian paramilitary leader has been convicted in a New York mortgage fraud scheme to cheat lenders out of $1.7 million.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, New York

• National City posts $1.76 billion loss for quarter

  Friday | via Lansing State Journal 

  NEW YORK - Regional bank National City Corp. on Thursday reported a $1.76 billion loss for the second quarter, as mortgage loans soured and it took a big charge related to previous acquisitions.

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  Related Topix: New York, Home, Mortgage, National City Corporation, Banking, Financial Services

National Headlines

• Affordable oasis near the sea

  3 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,

  4 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

  4 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

  5 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

  5 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