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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

• Home buyers should check for hidden and buried toxins

  2 hrs ago | via KCPQ 

  IT'S IN the tank. Up in smoke. Biting the dust. The real estate market? No. The toxic substances in the water, air and dirt enveloping many Southern California properties.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles County, CA, Orange County Metro, Real Estate

• Median home prices fall by 6.1% in county

  20 hrs ago | via Pasadena Star-News 

  Los Angeles County's median home price fell 6.1 percent last month to $396,560 and was off a record 32.3 percent from a year earlier, the California Association of Realtors reported Friday.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles County, CA, Real Estate, California, San Gabriel, CA, Hacienda Heights, CA

• A new low in the high life

  Friday | via Arizona Daily Sun 

  A couple of front-page stories in Tuesday's papers -- one from the East Coast, the other from the West -- frame a pretty effective portrait of these United States in this election year.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures, Los Angeles County, CA, San Bernardino, CA, Home Listing, Home, Opinion

• Mosquito reports soar after article

  Friday | via The Signal 

  Canyon Country residents Thursday reported a surge in both the number of "green pools" and of mosquitoes following initial reports of countywide efforts to stop the spread of West Nile virus.

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  Related Topix: Canyon Country, CA, Los Angeles County, CA, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, Real Estate

• House Hunt: For Some, Now May Be the Right Time

  Thursday Jul 24 | via Hispanic Business 

  Hispanics are expected to drive the first-time homebuyer market in the coming decade.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Mortgage, Real Estate, Los Angeles County, CA

Regional Headlines

• Editorial: The other shoe looms

  3 hrs ago | via Sacramento Bee Newspaper 

  The latest bad news factoid is that foreclosures in California are at a 20-year high.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, California, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

• Broker drops lawsuit over sale of Southern California...

  3 hrs ago | via AMNY 

  Washington Mutual Inc., who was Rep. Laura Richardson's lender, announced Friday that James York's suit against her and the bank had been resolved, the Torrance Daily Breeze reported.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, California, Banking, Washington Mutual, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Mayor backs out of gay rights event

  9 hrs ago | via L.A. Observed 

  I received an email statement Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa this morning that announced he would skip tonight's banquet in San Francisco for the Human Rights Campaign, a mainstream gay community group that raises ...

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  Related Topix: California, Transgendered, Gay/Lesbian, Housing, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• State home sales up 18%

  19 hrs ago | via LA Daily News 

  Home sales across California jumped nearly 18 percent during June compared with a year earlier as discounted foreclosures lured buyers back into the real-estate market, a trade association said Friday.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles Metro, Los Angeles Metro, Housing, California, Real Estate, Foreclosures

• Median home prices fall by 6.1% in county

  21 hrs ago | via Whittier Daily News 

  Los Angeles County's median home price fell 6.1 percent last month to $396,560 and was off a record 32.3 percent from a year earlier, the California Association of Realtors reported Friday.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles County, CA, Real Estate, San Gabriel, CA, California, Hacienda Heights, CA

National Headlines

• Congress passes mortgage aid bill

  6 min ago | via North County Journal 

  It took fears of a market collapse to push President George W. Bush and Congress to compromise on election-year mortgage help for struggling homeowners.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Housing, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Lawsuit dropped over SoCal congresswoman's home

  8 min ago | via Fox News 

  A man who paid $388,000 for a congresswoman's home dropped a lawsuit that claimed she got special treatment when a bank rescinded the foreclosure, it was reported Saturday.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Banking, Washington Mutual, Home, Mortgage, Housing

• Raise a glass of best Chateau Sucker

  8 min ago | via Irish Independent 

  Frankly, I've been getting tired of all the bad news. Every day brings new reports of job losses, price increases, industrial collapse, increasing debt, stock exchange plunges, pension erosion and general ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Train Disaster, Opinion

• US shuts down two more banks

  10 min ago | via Times of Oman 

  WASHINGTON: The US Treasury has shut down two affiliated western banks as the impact of the US real estate crash rolls through the country's financial institutions.

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  Related Topix: Reno, NV, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• A healthy market

  3 hrs ago | via The Daily Advertiser 

  The home buying boom in Lafayette is leveling off, and with national stories of lending disasters and foreclosures tempering the market, local builders are trying to assure potential buyers.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Baton Rouge, LA, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Lafayette, LA