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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

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• A Foreclosure Bargain for Their "Forever House"

  Wednesday May 14 | via Realty Trac 

  Karen Krynen saw an opportunity. Nestled at the top of a hill with a long private driveway, the bank-owned property sitting on a huge 40,946 square foot lot was exactly what she was looking for.

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  Related Topix: La Habra Heights, CA, Foreclosures, Home Listing, Home

• Credit, housing crises squeeze United Way cash

  Yesterday | via Palm Beach Post 

  Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke last week said turmoil in the financial markets is easing.

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  Related Topix: Palm Beach County, FL, Immokalee, FL, Foreclosures, Boca Raton, FL, West Palm Beach Metro

• Home insurer for rich reaps $17 million in help from state

  Yesterday | via Palm Beach Post 

  A property insurance company devoted solely to insuring the houses of Florida's richest residents received a $17 million low-interest state loan that enabled multimillionaires to save an average of $4,700 a ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Palm Beach County, FL

• Condo crunch in S. Florida good news for bargain hunters

  Saturday | via South Florida Sun-Sentinel 

  The glut of condominiums for sale in South Florida is attracting a legion of bargain hunters.

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  Related Topix: Palm Beach County, FL, Broward County, FL, Housing, Bangalore, India, World News, India, Home Listing, Home, Miami Dade County, FL

• Keep the housing rule

  Friday May 16 | via Palm Beach Post 

  Developers are so desperate to kill Palm Beach County's workforce housing ordinance that they're using the stalled real estate market as an excuse.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Housing, Opinion

• Palm Beach County tax delinquencies rise sharply

  Friday May 16 | via WPTV Local News 

  On the heels of foreclosures, the number of people failing to pay their taxes on time soars.

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  Related Topix: Palm Beach County, FL, Foreclosures

• More schools to face federal education law's consequences

  42 min ago | via HeraldTribune.com 

  Pink slips for principals and teachers. School-funded tutoring for poor kids. Schools are increasingly looking at those kind of consequences for failing to raise math and reading scores.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Family, Kids, Florida, Education Etc.

• Crist signs legislation expanding coverage for autism

  1 hr ago | via Tallahassee Democrat 

  Governor's Press Office * SPECIAL TO THE DEMOCRAT * May 20, 2008 Gov. Charlie Crist continued a weeklong series of health-care bill signings today by signing Senate Bill 2654, which increases health insurance ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Florida

• A Vacant-House Graveyard In Florida

  Yesterday | via The Housing Bubble Blog 

  The St Petersburg Times reports from Florida. "'At first, as in all these gambling mania, everyone gained A golden bait hung temptingly out before the people and, one after another, they rushed to the tulip ...

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  Related Topix: Tampa Metro, Florida, Fort Myers, FL, Fort Myers Metro, Home, Mortgage

• Biz Monday: Workshops to help better money matters

  Yesterday | via News Press 

  The Florida Department of Financial Services is involved in a series of June educational workshops in Southwest Florida.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Fort Myers, FL, Florida, Fort Myers Metro, Foreclosures, Small Business

• Broadcasters battle tax-swap plan

  Yesterday | via The Miami Herald 

  Put aside the Clinton vs. Obama and McCain fights for a moment and consider a summer of political ads accusing black-hat corporate interests of getting million-dollar tax breaks at the expense of hard-working ...

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  Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Real Estate

• This American Life, $1,000 bottles of Mortgage Bubbly

  2 min ago | via Hot Property 

  The public radio show This American Life had a great program on the housing bust on Sunday.

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

• Letter to Editor: "The buyers are the ones who are panicking..."

  6 min ago | via TheFrontSteps 

  Letter to Editor: "The buyers are the ones who are panicking" 20 05 2008 We received this email after our post regarding the apparent panic amongst some Realtors in San Francisco: From a fellow SF Realtor I ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Russia, Kostromskaya Oblast', Russia, Buy, Russia, World News

• Complete Coverage: America's Housing Crisis

  1 hr ago | via Forbes 

  An easy-money policy in the early years of the new millennium was meant to help the United States recover from the burst technology bubble and the Sept.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• A Senate Deal On Housing

  1 hr ago | via Forbes 

  Congress is one step closer to creating a legislative response to the recent spate of foreclosures.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, George Bush, US Senate, Republican, Richard Shelby, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• AIG shares tumble near decade lows

  1 hr ago | via MarketWatch 

  American International Group shares fell close to a decade low on Tuesday as the giant insurer raised roughly $20 billion in new capital to fortify itself against the ravages of the tumbling U.S. housing ...

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  Related Topix: Insurance, American International Group, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance