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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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Local Headlines

• Local votes split on congressional housing bill

  14 hrs ago | via The News-Journal 

  The impact of Congress' housing bill on Volusia and Flagler counties could go either way, helping to prop up an ailing housing market or creating slums.

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  Related Topix: US News, Housing, Foreclosures

• State's financial forecast: bad and worse

  Friday Jul 18 | via The News-Journal 

  Florida's economic slump is worse than state economists had predicted earlier this year, and now they say it'll last about six months longer than previously expected.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Florida, Florida Government

• 2-county foreclosures increase

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  Court filings related to foreclosures totaled 1,135 in Volusia and Flagler counties in June.

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  Related Topix: Daytona Beach, FL, Volusia County, FL, Flagler County, FL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• The Wow Factor

  Saturday Jun 28 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  If all goes according to plan, in mid-October businesses will begin moving into Parkview Point, at 275 S. U.S. 17-92. Judging by a recent peek at the still-unfinished office building, those businesses will be ... 1 comment

  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Real Estate, Debary, FL

• Housing nearing bottom?

  Thursday Jun 26 | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  Falling home prices are encouraging more home sales and possibly signal a bottoming out of the declining housing market.

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  Related Topix: New Smyrna Beach, FL, Volusia County, FL, Florida, Flagler County, FL, Real Estate, Housing

Regional Headlines

• Home sales continue slide

  1 hr ago | via The Miami Herald 

  With the local economy on the ropes and the number of borrowers behind on their mortgages rising, South Florida median home prices and sales continued sliding last month, falling an average 20.5 percent in ...

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, University of Miami, Real Estate, Housing, Foreclosures, Home Listing

• Mortgages

  2 hrs ago | via Daily Business Review 

  That's one of the explanations in a 40-page response to a Miami Herald investigation, which found that more than 10,000 people with criminal records were permitted to work in Florida's mortgage industry between ...

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  Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Florida To Address Criminals In Mortgage Industry

  2 hrs ago | via Tampa Bay Online 

  The head of a state agency that allowed thousands of criminals to sell home loans in Florida has acknowledged that his office did not follow a screening law, but blamed legislators for failing to provide money ...

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  Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• McCollum "not ready" to say whether battered mortgage chief should go

  4 hrs ago | via El Sentinel 

  Next Tuesday is bound to be a bloodletting when the Florida Cabinet meets to decide the fate of embattled Office of Financial Regulation chief Don Saxon . 1 comment

  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Florida, Florida Government

• FAR: South Florida home sales continue decline

  Monday Jul 21 | via South Florida Business Journal 

  Year-over-year single-family home sales and prices declined again in June, across South Florida and the state, a Florida Association of Realtors report showed.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, West Palm Beach, FL, Florida, Miami Metro, Fort Myers, FL, Cape Coral, FL

National Headlines

• The slump persists: Home sales tumble across US

  3 min ago | via KVEW 

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

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

• Post a comment

  4 min ago | via International Herald Tribune 

  A U.S. geological agency unveiled the largest-ever survey of petroleum resources north of the Arctic Circle.

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  Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Housing

• Stocks tumble after sales of existing homes fall

  4 min ago | via KVEW 

  Stocks skidded lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales wiped away some of the market's optimism about upbeat earnings reports.

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

• Home sales at 10-year low, jobless claims jump

  5 min ago | via Reuters 

  Jobless claims jumped and the pace of existing home sales tumbled to a 10-year low as slowing growth hit hiring and a glut of unsold houses weighed on real estate, data released on Thursday showed.

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

• Daytona Beach area home sales, prices slide again in June

  5 min ago | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  Existing home sales in the Daytona Beach area slipped 13 percent in June, when compared to the same period last year, while prices slid another 14 percent, the Florida Association of Realtors reported today.

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