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• Foreclosure Activity Increases 7 Percent in May

  Jun 13, 2008 | via Realty Trac 

  ' June 13, 2008 - ' RealtyTrac , the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, today released its May 2008 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report , which shows foreclosure filings - ' default notices, ...

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Local Headlines

• Lowndes area not immune from home foreclosures

  Apr 12, 2008 | via Valdosta Daily Times 

  You must have seen the columns and columns of legal ads for homes in foreclosure in Lowndes County.

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• Blazers still building

  Feb 2, 2008 | via Valdosta Daily Times 

  During the fourth Blazer build, more than 80 volunteers stood up to meet the challenge at 706 South Oak Street, where another Habitat for Humanity house was erected.

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• Bidders seek huge chunk of prime Valdosta land

  Jan 12, 2008 | via Tallahassee.com 

  VALDOSTA, Ga. - It was dubbed a sale of opportunity. One-tenth of Valdosta's land area was up for auction Friday in a sale with unprecedented commercial ramifications.

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• PAB Bankshares, Inc. Schedules Fourth Quarter and Full-Year 2007...

  Jan 11, 2008 | via PrimeNewswire 

  On Friday, January 11, 2008, M. Burke Welsh Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer for PAB Bankshares, Inc.

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Regional Headlines

• RealtyTrac: Georgia 8th in Q2 foreclosure rate, metro Atlanta 20th

  Monday Jul 21 | via Atlanta Business Chronicle 

  Georgia improved to the eighth-highest foreclosure rate in the second quarter, while metro Atlanta had the 20th-highest, according to RealtyTrac 's Second Quarter 2008 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report published ...

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• TV Makeover Home In Foreclosure

  Thursday | via CBS 46 

  Every week the ABC reality show "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" gives families the chance of a lifetime to have their home completely redone and paid for by somebody else.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Home Listing, Home, Georgia

• President Bush drops opposition to housing bill

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  President Bush dropped his opposition Wednesday to a broad housing package aimed at bolstering the sagging economy, despite his objections to including $3.9 billion for neighborhoods hit hardest by ...

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  Related Topix: Georgia, George Bush, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Keep the down payment assistance program

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Who's to blame for the subprime mortgage crisis sweeping the nation? Wall Street bankers who've overleveraged their books by billions of dollars? Or first-time home buyers who received gifts of a few thousand ...

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• Lesbian candidate advances to Georgia House runoff

  Friday Jul 18 | via Southern Voice 

  Keisha Waites made it to an Aug. 5 runoff after taking second in a crowded field for House District 61 while Kevin Clark lost his bid for state Senate District 2. Keisha Waites is one step closer to making ...

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National Headlines

• New home sales fall, but less than expected

  10 min ago | via Daily Herald 

  Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, but the decline was less than had been expected, raising faint hopes that the nation's severe housing recession could be ...

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• Death-Squad Boss Guilty of Fraud

  10 min ago | via New York Post 

  A former Haitian death-squad leader who murdered and tortured political enemies in the early 1990s was convicted in Brooklyn yesterday of far less sinister crimes - ripping off loan providers in a ...

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• Foreclosure filings double in 2Q

  10 min ago | via Daily Herald 

  The number of households facing the foreclosure process more than doubled in the second quarter compared to a year ago, according to data released Friday.

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• "Beazer gave them $100,000 cash, paid their mortgage off and...

  14 min ago | via Housing Doom 

  You just can't help some people. The 2005 " Extreme Makeover " home has gone into foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Construction, Beazer Homes USA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Sterling Gets Back to Strong Suit

  16 min ago | via GlobeSt.com 

  Sterling American Property Inc. caught the local commercial real estate market by surprise when it purchased Park Tower, the city's oldest skyscraper, for $50 million in January 2006.

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