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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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Local Headlines

• Bankers survey shows support for mortgage bailout

  Thursday Jul 17 | via KPAX 

  Most rural bank CEOs surveyed in Montana and 10 other states support a federal bailout of mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the event of financial collapse.

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• Mortgage reforms will save Canadians from U.S.-style woes

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Calgary Herald 

  By the upper reaches of the Missouri in Montana, runs an arm of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway.

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• Regulations needed in nation's lending industry

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Great Falls Tribune 

  Montana Department of Revenue Director Dave Bucks told a legislative panel last week Montana is dodging the national housing crisis.

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• Revenue chief: State dodges housing crisis

  Friday Jul 11 | via Great Falls Tribune 

  HELENA - Wise mortgage decisions and a relatively strong economy have largely kept the state's housing market above national turmoil, the director of the Montana Department of Revenue said Thursday.

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• High-priced oil means it's time to relocate

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via The Billings Outpost 

  Bicycling around town, digging and planting and weeding our garden, not climbing into the car for four whole days, I didn't think once about the price of gasoline.

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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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  3 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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• Stocks tumble after sales of existing homes fall

  3 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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• 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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• Daytona Beach area home sales, prices slide again in June

  4 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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