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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

• Region News

  May 9, 2008 | via Rome News - Tribune 

  Reports: Bartow County foreclosures up 36 percent From Cartersville Daily Tribune News By Danielle Swanson While still having the lowest total in the 13-county metro-Atlanta area of foreclosure notices ...

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  Related Topix: Cartersville, GA, Foreclosures, Whitfield County, GA, Dalton, GA, Calhoun, GA

• Area Home Foreclosures on the Rise

  Apr 3, 2008 | via WTVC 

  Derek Dellinger April 3, 2008 - 4:09PM House hunting in a nationwide foreclosure crisis can be good if you're the buyer, but bad if you're the seller.

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  Related Topix: Harrison, TN, Chattanooga, TN, Ooltewah, TN, Foreclosures

• Real estate market healthy

  Mar 11, 2008 | via Daily Citizen 

  To the editor: In response to the "Real Estate Watch" column printed in your paper on Sunday, March 2, I would like to give you a different perspective on the current real estate market.

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  Related Topix: Whitfield County, GA, Real Estate, Dalton, GA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Foreclosure homes may not be best bet for first-time buyers

  Feb 23, 2008 | via Daily Citizen 

  First-time homebuyers might want to avoid homes being sold after foreclosure, says housing counselor Ingrid Gossler.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Dalton, GA, Whitfield County, GA

• Free homebuyer seminar on Feb. 23

  Feb 14, 2008 | via Dalton Daily Citizen 

  Due to demand, the Dalton-Whitfield Community Development Corp. has scheduled another free Homebuyer Seminar for Feb.

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  Related Topix: Whitfield County, GA, Dalton, GA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• President Bush drops opposition to housing bill

  Yesterday | 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

  Yesterday | 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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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Georgia

• 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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  Related Topix: East Point, GA, Mortgage, Atlanta Metro, Georgia

• A Texas warning for Georgia banks

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Several Georgia banks dominate a recent ranking of the nation's riskiest financial institutions based on a measure known as the "Texas ratio," which attempts to gauge how likely they will run into deep ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Alpharetta, GA, Georgia

• Superior Court Clerk Candidates Q&A

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Rome News - Tribune 

  I am a Floyd County native and I began my public service career in 1975 as a deputy sheriff with the Floyd County Sheriffs Department.

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  Related Topix: Texas A&M University System, Georgia, Real Estate

National Headlines

• The slump persists: Home sales tumble across US

  3 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

  4 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

  4 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

  4 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

  5 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