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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

• Alabama real estate network formed

  Monday Jul 21 | via Birmingham Business Journal 

  Jim Lawrence, president of Birmingham's LAH Real Estate Inc. , today announced his company's involvement in the formation of a new statewide network of independent residential real estate brokers in Alabama.

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  Related Topix: Alabama, Housing, Gulf Shores, AL

• Auburn National Bancorp. named one of top 200 best community banks

  Jun 9, 2008 | via Birmingham Business Journal 

  Auburn National Bancorporation is the only Alabama bank to be ranked in U.S. Banker's list of the top 200 best performing community banks in the nation.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Auburn National Bancorporation, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Hurtsboro, AL, Opelika, AL

Regional Headlines

• CongressDaily: Housing Bill Might Benefit Foreign Firm

  2 hrs ago | via National Journal 

  A housing-recovery bill moving quickly toward President Bush's desk could benefit a company that has nothing to do with the mortgage market: a Canadian rail-car manufacturer that is building a plant in ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Colbert County, AL, US News, US House of Representatives, Alabama, Democrat, US Politics, Earl Blumenauer

• Financial Stocks: Regions leads slide as credit bites regional banks

  Tuesday | via MarketWatch 

  Regions Financial Monday fell 21%, headlining a slew of bad financial reports from regional banks that is throwing cold water on a recent bank rally, as home equity and homebuilder loans wreak havoc in the ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Alabama, Home, Mortgage

• Shelby County looks at belt-tightening in wake of economic slowdown

  Monday Jul 21 | via Birmingham News Online 

  Belt-tightening is on the way to Shelby County, one of the most affluent and fastest-growing counties in Alabama, as key revenues show little increase and critical economic indicators in decline.

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  Related Topix: Alabama, Mortgage, Home

• Camps help kids learn about money

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Montgomery Advertiser 

  TUSCALOOSA -- While his friends spend their money on video games and candy, Nicholas Sella saves most of his $8 weekly allowance, investing part in stocks and stashing the rest into a savings account.

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  Related Topix: Video Games, Financial Markets, Alabama, Home, Mortgage

• Stocks in U.S. Decline on Concern Over Credit Losses; Fannie, Freddie Fall

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Bloomberg 

  U.S. stocks slid, sending the Standard & Poor's 500 Index into its first bear market since 2002, after rising borrowing costs spurred concern the biggest mortgage finance companies may not weather the housing ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

National Headlines

• Existing home sales fall 2.6% in June

  3 min ago | via Butler Eagle 

  Sales of existing homes fell more sharply than expected in June as the housing industry continued to be bruised by the worst slump in more than two decades.

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

• Report: Foreclosure sales up in Maricopa County

  4 min ago | via KTAR / Local / Stories 

  A new report shows that more than 40 percent of Maricopa County home sales in June were foreclosures.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Housing

• Fauquier Foreclosure Sales

  4 min ago | via Times Community Newspapers - Fauquier County 

  I let you all know, not long ago that the Fauquier numbers for June looked pretty good.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• ASB follows Bollard's lead, cuts fixed rate - Cullen approves

  4 min ago | via NZ Herald 

  ASB has moved quickly to cut its two year fixed home lending rate, after Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard cut the Official Cash Rate to 8 per cent from 8.25 per cent.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Stocks tumble after sales of existing homes fall

  5 min ago | via NY Daily News 

  Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market's ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home, Housing, Home Selling, Financial Markets, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance