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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

• Don't let fears rise with costs, experts say

  Monday Jul 21 | via Statesman Journal 

  People are doing their best to deal with the rising cost of just about everything.

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement, Marion County, OR, Woodburn, OR, Foreclosures

• Increase in foreclosures ripples through Mid-Valley

  Jun 19, 2008 | via Statesman Journal 

  In less than a year and a half, Dannan Tavona has gone from first-time homebuyer to facing foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Salem, OR, Salem Metro, Marion County, OR, Polk County, OR, Home Listing, Home

• Smoke alarm alerts residents as fire claims another home

  Jan 4, 2008 | via Keizertimes 

  At 8:33 a.m., Friday, Dec. 28, the Keizer Fire District responded to 1973 Petty Grove Court NE following a report of a garage fire.

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  Related Topix: Keizer, OR, Home Listing, Home

• House fire reported in Turner early this morning

  Jan 2, 2008 | via Statesman Journal 

  A fire caused heavy damage to a Turner home early this morning, officials said. The fire was reported just before 4 a.m. in the 9800 block of Marion Road SE, said Turner Deputy Chief Jon Remy.

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  Related Topix: Turner, OR, Home Listing, Home, Aumsville, OR, Stayton, OR, Jefferson, OR, Marion County, OR

• Smoke alarm alerts residents; pet requires medical treatment

  Dec 31, 2007 | via Keizertimes 

  Another Keizer household found their home ablaze this holiday season. This Petty Grove Court fire started in the garage and caused some $30,000 in damages.

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  Related Topix: Keizer, OR, Home Listing, Home

Regional Headlines

• Oregon man sentenced to 10 years in mortgage scheme

  Monday Jul 21 | via KGW-TV Portland 

  A former Portland mortgage broker described as "the perfect con man" has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for a $5 million fraud scheme.

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

• Portland Developer Goes Belly Up

  Monday Jul 21 | via Portland Real Estate Blog 

  It's not the first story of its kind and probably not the last. Sunday's front page Oregonian article detailed the rise and fall of Ryan Olsen Development in their story, Portland-area Builder Implodes .

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  Related Topix: Oregon, Foreclosures

• Roommates: Not just for college students anymore

  Sunday Jul 20 | via KVAL-TV Eugene 

  That all changed when he bought a Springfield home and realized he couldn't pay the mortgage without one.

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  Related Topix: University of Illinois System, Oregon, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home Listing

• Million-dollar properties still in demand in Southern Oregon

  Sunday Jul 20 | via OregonLive.com 

  Million-dollar homes remain in demand in Southern Oregon, though buyers and sellers still worry about home prices and financing, reports this morning's Medford Mail Tribune .

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  Related Topix: Housing, Oregon, Medford, OR, Medford Metro, Real Estate, Jackson County, OR

• Foreclosures in the Portland area and central Oregon top 2002's dot-com drop

  Thursday Jul 17 | via The Oregonian 

  Mortgage defaults in the Portland area and central Oregon rose 97 percent in the first half of 2008, compared with a year ago.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Clackamas, OR, Portland, OR, Oregon, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Housing rescue passes

  5 min ago | via Martinsville Bulletin - Martinsville, Virginia 

  The candidates for the 5th District House seat in the November election differ on the merits of the housing legislation passed by Congress last week.

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

• Banks rally as CEOs hold off on shares

  3 hrs ago | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  With many banks still reporting massive writedowns and even quarterly losses from bad mortgage investments, it certainly seems like an odd time for financial stocks to rally.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Wachovia Corporation, Merrill Lynch and Co, Investment Services

• Mortgage firm rescue bill awaits Bush's OK

  3 hrs ago | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000 struggling homeowners Saturday as part of an election-year housing plan that also aims to calm jittery financial markets and bolster the sagging economy.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, George Bush, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Financing completed for Pa. shopping center

  3 hrs ago | via CourierPostOnline 

  Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust has completed a $54 million financing of Paxton Towne Centre in Harrisburg, Pa.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, Harrisburg, PA, Home, Mortgage

• Local communities sit half-built, fully troubled

  3 hrs ago | via News Press 

  Michael and Judith Van Dress have a lot of privacy and not a lot of competition when they use the brand-new fitness center at their condominium in Concordia.

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  Related Topix: Cape Coral, FL, Housing, Lee County, FL, Naples Metro