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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

• Arlington Homes Market Underperforming in Regional Recovery

  7 hrs ago | via Sun - Gazette 

  The Arlington real estate market, which outperformed the regional marketplace as the area headed into the housing downturn, appears to be underperforming as the Northern Virginia market starts shaking out of ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Housing, Fairfax County, VA

• Fairfax County Predicts More Housing Woes

  20 hrs ago | via Alexandria Gazette-Packet 

  Fairfax County staff painted a bleak picture of the local housing market outlook during a presentation before the Board of Supervisors and School Board July 18.

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  Related Topix: Fairfax County, VA, Fairfax, VA, Foreclosures

• N. Va Resale Homes Sold Up 165% Since January, Sign of Market Turnaround?

  23 hrs ago | via Urban Trekker 

  The Northern Virginia Association of Realtors released their June sales report recently for resale market.

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  Related Topix: Housing

• Frederick County wants to tackle vacant homes, shaggy lawns

  Yesterday | via WTOP 

  Frederick County might step in to help alleviate the housing crisis. Next week, the Frederick County Commissioners plan to discuss a new law to prevent overgrown lawns.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Maryland

• Home Sales Up in Fairfax, But Prices Still Soft

  Yesterday | via Sun - Gazette 

  Home sales across Fairfax County were up in June compared to a year before, the second month in a row for good news in the local housing market.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Fairfax County, VA, Oakton, VA

Regional Headlines

• Editor Takes the Plunge, Goes Through Licensing Process

  7 hrs ago | via Sun - Gazette 

  Listen up, you top producers out there: you some day could have competition in the world of real estate.

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  Related Topix: Merrifield, VA, Real Estate, Virginia

• Experts gather to figure out how to decrease Virginia's foreclosure rate

  16 hrs ago | via WDBJ7 

  July 23, 2008 Experts gather to figure out how to decrease Virginia's foreclosure rate Virginia's foreclosure rate is rising faster than the national average.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Virginia, Virginia Government

• Gloomy Virginia: Foreclosure crisis likely to worsen, says analyst

  Yesterday | via The Daily Times 

  RICHMOND - Government and community leaders from throughout Virginia gathered Wednesday to consider how they can reverse a disturbing spike in foreclosures.

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  Related Topix: Virginia, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• NVR Ekes Out a Profit in Deep Housing Slump

  Yesterday | via The Washington Post 

  NVR's profit of $51.3 million reflected a skid of 43 percent. COMMENT By Zachary A. Goldfarb Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 23, 2008; Page D01 NVR, the region's biggest home builder, said ...

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  Related Topix: Washington Post, Publishing, Home Building, Home, Mortgage, Virginia

• Will Presidential Election Help Resurrect Local Housing Strength?

  Monday Jul 21 | via Sun - Gazette 

  No matter who wins this November's presidential election, the turnover of political staff members will - if only slightly - boost activity in the local real estate market, some top local real estate ...

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  Related Topix: Virginia, Real Estate

National Headlines

• Lake Delton property owners to receive $2.3 million for flood-damaged parcels

  5 min ago | via Onalaska Community Life 

  State checks totaling more than $2.3 million were deposited Wednesday with Sauk County authorities to pay for property that either no longer exits or, if it does, is in the Wisconsin River.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Natural Disasters, Flood, Lake Delton, WI

• Johnson Backs $3.5 Billion Tax Increase According to McHenry

  6 min ago | via Lincoln Tribune 

  Rewards Predatory Lenders with Taxpayer-Funded Bailout HICKORY - Congressman Patrick McHenry responded today to his opponent's support for the taxpayer-funded bailout of subprime mortgage lenders.

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  Related Topix: Hickory Metro, US Politics, US News, Patrick McHenry, Republican, US House of Representatives, Home, Mortgage

• All eyes on Bank Negara meet

  6 min ago | via Business Times 

  WITH inflation at a 26-year high last month, all eyes are on Bank Negara Malaysia's monetary policy committee meeting today to see whether it will raise the Overnight Policy Rate , the benchmark interest rate.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• The slump persists: Home sales tumble across US

  8 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

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  9 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