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• Foreclosure Activity Increases 4 Percent in April

  Tuesday May 13 | via Realty Trac 

  Foreclosure filings - default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions - were reported on 243,353 properties, a 4 percent increase from the previous month and a nearly 65 percent increase from April ...

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  Related Topix: Vallejo, CA, Vallejo Metro, Foreclosures

Featured Article

• Foreclosure Activity Increases 4 Percent in April

  Tuesday May 13 | via Realty Trac 

  Foreclosure filings - default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions - were reported on 243,353 properties, a 4 percent increase from the previous month and a nearly 65 percent increase from April ...

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  Related Topix: Vallejo, CA, Vallejo Metro, Foreclosures

• Mortgage Fraud and False Testimony

  Wednesday May 7 | via Alexandria Gazette-Packet 

  John Andreas Tsiaoushis, 40, pleaded guilty Thursday, May 1 to mail fraud and giving false testimony at a hearing in U.S. Bankruptcy Court, according to U.S. Attorney Chuck Rosenberg.

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

• 30-Year-Loan Rates Dip Slightly

  Friday May 9 | via The Washington Post 

  COMMENT From News Services and Staff Reports Saturday, May 10, 2008; Page G04 Rates on 30-year mortgages edged down this week but remained above 6 percent.

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

• House Passes Anti-foreclosure Bill, With REP. Capito Amendment

  Friday May 9 | via KnowledgePlex.org News 

  Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. , issued the following news release: In a culmination of months of bipartisan debate and discussion, the House of Representatives today approved broad legislation to combat ...

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  Related Topix: Virginia, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Shelley Moore Capito, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Democrats Say Bush Threat to Veto Foreclosure Legislation a Surprise

  Thursday May 8 | via Black Enterprise 

  In brief remarks after meeting with congressional Republicans, Bush issued his veto threat, complaining that legislation under consideration would "reward speculators and lenders." Democrats said the package of ...

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  Related Topix: Virginia, George Bush, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• I've Been Inside 5,000 Northern Virginia Homes or Thereabouts

  Wednesday May 7 | via Virginia Real Estate News 

  REALTORS go inside people's houses. That's just what we do! Big ones. Small ones.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Virginia

• Dollars & Sense

  5 min ago | via The Modesto Bee 

  Slight boost in new homes construction Construction of new homes posted the biggest increase in more than two years in April.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Business News

• Plenty of good parking ahead

  6 min ago | via The Norman Transcript 

  There were plenty of parking spaces at Andrews Park Friday morning. Most of those who gathered to celebrate national "Bike to Work Day" came on two wheels.

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  Related Topix: Norman, OK, Housing, Opinion

• 'America's Most Wanted' notches 1,000th arrest

  7 min ago | via SouthFlorida.com 

  When he started America's Most Wanted , John Walsh could point to at least one thing in its favor: Society's swampland of bad people doing bad things would never run dry.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Florida, John Walsh, Entertainment, Television

• New home construction is at 2-year high

  8 min ago | via Daily Breeze 

  Construction of new homes increased by the biggest percentage in more than two years in April, a rare spot of good news amid the worst downturn in housing in more than two decades.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Housing

• Rochester-area housing market showing some life

  2 hrs ago | via Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 

  If you're going to sell a house in Monroe County, you'll be cheered to know the median house price is up 4 percent compared with last year, despite a slumping economy.

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