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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

• Audit: Pleasant Valley rainy day funds intact

  Friday Jul 18 | via Poughkeepsie Journal 

  PLEASANT VALLEY - The town government has an ample cushion of rainy day funds, a recent audit reveals.

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  Related Topix: Red Hook, NY, Real Estate, Pleasant Valley, NY, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Developers in a bind over prices

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via The Real Deal 

  Developers of flagging residential condo projects in the city may be faced with a new real estate Catch-22: the prospect of having to provide additional equity to lenders or take out more loans if they want to ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Manhattan, NY, New York, NY

• New ways for boomers to find hip music

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Poughkeepsie Journal 

  There is a reason such classic acts as the Police, Santana, Bruce Springsteen and Rush continue to fill big venues this summer: Many people who formed their core audiences in the '60s, '70s and '80s are still ...

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  Related Topix: Santana, Pop/Rock, Rhinebeck, NY, Red Hook, NY, Home, Mortgage

• More people, not enough jobs, housing prices through the roof, Marist economic report says

  Friday Jun 27 | via Mid-Hudson News 

  POUGHKEEPSIE While the population of the Hudson Valley continues to grow, there are not enough jobs in the region to go around.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Poughkeepsie, NY, Columbia County, NY, Greene County, NY

• The (Big) Round-Up: Monday

  Jun 22, 2008 | via The New York Observer 

  There are a lot more renters nationwide than there used to be. [NY Times] Once a scene of loud, colorful protests and even a few riots, the steps of City Hall are now available only by appointment and must be ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Staten-Island, NY, New York, NY, Red Hook, NY, Manhattan, NY

Regional Headlines

• Fed Report Portrays Grim Economy

  4 hrs ago | via Realtor Magazine 

  The Federal Reserve's Beige Book report for the latest six-week period portrays the economy as increasingly weak across most of the U.S. All 12 districts reported slower home sales, continuing big inventories ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, New York, Mortgage, Home

• National City Rises as Chief Executive Says Bank Has `Sufficient Capital'

  4 hrs ago | via Bloomberg 

  National City Corp. rose as much as 11 percent in New York trading after Chief Executive Officer Peter Raskind said the bank, Ohio's largest, has enough capital to survive the credit-market contraction.

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  Related Topix: New York, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, National City Corporation, Banking, Financial Services, IndyMac Bancorp

• Sally Hogarty: 'I Hate Hamlet' a likeable comedy

  Yesterday | via Ledger Dispatch 

  IT MAY BE called "I Hate Hamlet," but there is much to like in the Orinda Starlight Village Players' current production of Paul Rudnick's comedy.

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  Related Topix: New York, Real Estate

• Fannie's unsold homes worth $5B bring peril to investors

  21 hrs ago | via Fulton County Daily Report 

  Fannie Mae, the largest U.S. mortgage finance company, couldn't find a buyer who would pay $6,900 for the three-bedroom house at 1916 Prospect St.

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  Related Topix: Housing, New York, Opinion

• Beige Book Looks Blue

  22 hrs ago | via Huliq.com 

  The Beige Book report , just released by the Federal Reserve, doesn't tell a very happy tale about the U.S. economy.

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  Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Housing, New York

National Headlines

• The slump persists: Home sales tumble across US

  6 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

  7 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

  7 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

  8 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

  8 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