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• Online Real Estate Auctions: 12 Tips for First-Time Bidders

  Jun 3, 2008 | via Realty Trac 

  Online auctions offer both novice and experienced real estate buyers a way to obtain under-valued properties. 1 comment

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Local Headlines

• House OKs homeowners' rescue

  Thursday | via The Tennessean 

  It was a victory for Democrats to savor, a compromise for President Bush to tolerate.

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• Bush Asserts U.S. Banking System Sound

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via WNBC New York Channel 4 

  In his first full-blown meeting with reporters at the White House since April 29, President George W. Bush asserted that the U.S. banking system is basically sound, with deposits insured up to $100,000. "I ...

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• Bush holds news conference

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via USA Today 

  Original posting at 8:48 a.m. ET: President Bush will hold a news conference at 10:20 a.m. ET in the briefing room at the White House.

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• Slow home sales catch up to region

  Thursday Jul 10 | via The Daily News Journal 

  Two years after the height of the real estate boom, the slow housing market may finally be catching up to Middle Tennessee.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Nashville Metro, Robertson County, TN

• Congress Keeps Housing on Summer Agenda

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Tools of the Trade 

  Democrats bent on showing they can govern and Republicans anxious about a sour re-election climate are pushing a pared-down summer agenda in Congress.

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Regional Headlines

• RealtyTrac: Memphis No. 25 in foreclosures

  Monday Jul 21 | via Memphis Business Journal 

  Memphis ranks 25th in foreclosures and Tennessee ranks 13th, according to second quarter data RealtyTrac Inc.

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• HOUSING: May 2008 foreclosures in your area

  Wednesday | via WBIR-TV Knoxville 

  As East Tennesseans struggle to make ends meet in a tough economy, some are losing their American Dream.

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• First Horizon Execs Trumpet Efforts to Buck Losses

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via The Daily News 

  First Horizon National Corp., the Memphis-based parent company of First Tennessee Bank, has seen more than 50 percent of its share price evaporate since the beginning of this year.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Tennessee, Opinion

• More

  Friday Jul 18 | via The Daily News Journal 

  Unemployment in Tennessee edged up by one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.5 percent in June compared to a month earlier, keeping the jobless rate here a full percentage point higher than the nation's rate.

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  Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law, Tennessee Government, Tennessee, Knoxville (University of Tennessee System), University of Tennessee System, Home, Mortgage

• First Horizon stock climbs after replacing CEO

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via The Tennessean 

  Memphis-based First Horizon National Corp., the parent company of First Tennessee, saw its stock soar in trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange after announcing it would replace its chief executive ...

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National Headlines

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

  10 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

  10 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

  11 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

  11 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

  12 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