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• Foreclosure Activity Increases 4 Percent in April

  Jun 15, 2008 | via Realty Trac 

  " May 14, 2008 - " RealtyTrac , the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, today released its April 2008 U.S. Foreclosure Market ReportTM, which shows foreclosure filings - default notices, ...

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  Related Topix: Vallejo, CA, Foreclosures, Vallejo Metro, California

Local Headlines

• QC Real Estate: Fantasy vs. Reality

  16 hrs ago | via The Meck Deck 

  Man, is the spin picking up on this topic. The Uptown paper of record reports that existing home sales fell 36 percent last quarter compared to the previous year.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Housing, Mecklenburg County, NC, Real Estate

• Banks, homeowners come together

  Wednesday | via News 14 Carolina 

  Troubled banks are working with struggling homeowners to help each other out. Online real estate marketplace RealtyTrac says for every 1,100 homes in North Carolina, one foreclosed this past month.

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  Related Topix: Mecklenburg County, NC, Wachovia Corporation, Banking, Financial Services, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Local Home Prices Skid

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via The Meck Deck 

  Don't know why this was not a bigger story. The Charlotte Business Journal reports : Existing-home sales in the Charlotte market fell 29 percent last month to 2,734 from 3,852 in June 2007, according to the ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Mecklenburg County, NC

• The Scholarship of Location, Location, Location....

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Mungowit's End 

  Real Estate Roundup, for KPC readers! Inequality in Land Ownership, the Emergence of Human Capital Promoting Institutions and the Great Divergence Oded Galor, Omer Moav & Dietrich Vollrathy Review of Economic ...

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  Related Topix: Emergence, Industrial, Housing, Mecklenburg County, NC

• Foreclosure crisis grips Charlotte, rest of nation

  Monday Jul 21 | via Daily Southerner 

  Tamika Shears says she never missed a rent payment, but she was still forced out of her home.

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  Related Topix: University of North Carolina System, Foreclosures, Mecklenburg County, NC, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• Victory Won in the Foreclosure Struggle of Rubie Curl-Pinkins

  11 hrs ago | via Pan-African News Wire 

  Dear activists and concerned community members, Victory was won today in the struggle to stop the foreclosure and eviction of Rubie Curl-Pinkins from her home on Holden Street in Detroit! Today was the date ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, North Carolina

• Raleigh foreclosures up, still better than national rate

  18 hrs ago | via Wral.com 

  Foreclosures in the City of Raleigh were 64 percent greater in the second quarter of 2008 than in the same period last year.

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  Related Topix: North Carolina, Foreclosures, Housing

• John Edwards in town

  18 hrs ago | via Off the Kuff 

  Former Senator and Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards was in town this week to promote his anti-poverty agenda.

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  Related Topix: North Carolina, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, John Edwards, 2008 Presidential Election

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

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via Delaware Coast Press 

  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: Foreclosures, North Carolina, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Legal Aid sees many more foreclosures

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via ScrippsNews 

  Submitted by SHNS on Wed, 07/23/2008 - 13:02. Yvette Stackhouse sees many people who are facing foreclosures or evictions in a weak economy, as residents have lost textile and other manufacturing jobs.

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  Related Topix: North Carolina, University of Richmond, Wake Forest University, Foreclosures, Hampton University

National Headlines

• U.S. Senate seen backing housing bill, Bush to sign

  7 min ago | via Reuters 

  The U.S. Senate was expected to approve a massive housing market rescue bill on Saturday and President George W. Bush was ready to sign it soon, amid questions about how much it will help.

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  Related Topix: Housing, George Bush, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Two candidates for state Legislature have been sued for debts

  8 min ago | via Kansas.com 

  Two Wichita women running for seats in the Kansas Legislature have been sued for debts worth thousands of dollars apiece, according to Sedgwick County District Court documents.

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  Related Topix: Sedgwick County, KS, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US News, Wichita Metro, Wichita, KS

• Dreier, Miller back housing legislation

  9 min ago | via San Gabriel Valley Tribune 

  Editor's note: It's Politics reports Saturdays on the ins and outs of San Gabriel Valley-area politics and city government.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Diamond Bar, CA, San Gabriel, CA, US Politics, US News, David Dreier, Republican, US House of Representatives, Gary Miller, Foreclosures

• Banks rally as CEOs hold off on issuing shares

  9 min ago | via Myrtle Beach Online 

  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

• Senate close to passing housing aid

  10 min ago | via The Boston Globe 

  Homeowners struggling to make their house payments could get government mortgage relief under a rescue plan that seeks to revive the chaotic housing market and help reverse the economic downturn.

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