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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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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage

Local Headlines

• Plan in place to keep new workers in county

  Mar 30, 2008 | via The Daily Tribune 

  County leaders and organizations are working together to form a welcome committee designed to encourage people who move to Matagorda County to accept industry jobs to stay on and become a part of the community.

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  Related Topix: Matagorda County, TX, Real Estate, Bay City, TX

• County spared soaring home foreclosure rates

  Feb 4, 2008 | via The Daily Tribune 

  Matagorda County is not seeing the sudden increase in home foreclosure rates that other parts of the country are experiencing, but the foreclosure rate is higher than it was five years ago.

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  Related Topix: Matagorda County, TX, Home Listing, Home, Foreclosures, Real Estate, Bay City, TX, Mortgage

• Art League holds open house

  Dec 12, 2007 | via The Daily Tribune 

  The Art League of Matagorda County will be holding an open house and ribbon cutting ceremony for their new, historic building located at 1921 Fifth Street, behind the fire station, from 11:30 a.m. - 7 p.m. ...

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  Related Topix: Matagorda County, TX, Fifth Street, TX, Home Listing, Home, Bay City, TX

Regional Headlines

• Congress approves housing bill

  2 hrs ago | via WNED.org 

  The U.S. Congress approved a massive housing market rescue bill on Saturday, offering emergency financing to mortgage titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and setting up a $300-billion fund to help hundreds of ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Texas, US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, George Bush, Foreclosures

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush's desk for signature

  5 hrs ago | via Houston Chronicle 

  Texas Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn were among the 13 GOP senators who voted against the emergency housing legislation.

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  Related Topix: Texas, Housing, US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, John McCain, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

• How Texas Congress members voted

  5 hrs ago | via Houston Chronicle 

  How the Texas congressional delegation voted on selected issues last week: Senate * 1. Housing rescue: Agreed, 80-13, to debate a House-passed bill that would potentially bail out the housing-finance companies ...

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  Related Topix: US News, Foreclosures, US Politics, John McCain, Texas

• Holding Steady

  Yesterday | via Report news 

  Business YAHOO! Business videos Saturday, July 26, 2008 Year Homes sold Ave. Price Ave.

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  Related Topix: Hardin-Simmons University, Texas, Real Estate, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• US Congress clears huge housing bill

  11 hrs ago | via The Peninsula 

  WASHINGTON * The US Congress approved a massive housing market rescue bill yesterday, offering emergency financing to mortgage titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and setting up a $300bn fund to help hundreds of ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, George Bush, Texas, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News

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