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	<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Task force targets home buyers, brokers who lied on mortgage applications</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A law enforcement task force is investigating thousands of Bay Area homeowners, mortgage agents, investors and others who may have committed mortgage fraud, the latest fallout from a housing bubble that wrecked the finances of countless people.
Federal, state, and local investigators who make up the 30-member task force have begun to probe as many as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Brilliance Of The JP Morgan (JPM) Mortgage Salvation Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congress does not like the way that most bailout money is going to banks. It wants to see the little guy with the underwater mortgage and stagnant income get some direct help. Federal agencies say that working with millions of homeowners is too complex, at least for now, and that the current legislation does not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Housing remains the biggest problem facing the US economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the problems facing America&#8217;s Main Street economy, housing remains the most significant.
In spite of having a long lead-time on the rest of the economy – the housing market began to tank 18-24 months ago – the situation is only getting worse.
One recent report, from property research firm First American CoreLogic, estimates that at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chase to halt new foreclosures for 90 days</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 19:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JPMorgan Chase won’t put any more homes into foreclosure for the next 90 days while it implements a plan to help borrowers stay in their homes, the company said.
The plan will include proactive offers to refinance mortgages to more affordable terms and a network of 24 regional counseling centers.
Chase will hire 300 loan counselors and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacramento Will Get $32 Million to &#8220;Flip&#8221; Foreclosures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SACRAMENTO, CA - The Central Valley has been impacted by the foreclosure crisis more than any other area in the country. Finally that recognition brings with it some reward.
Sacramento city and county officials announced Friday they will receive nearly $32 million in federal aid to buy and rehabilitate foreclosed homes in the hardest hit neighborhoods.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thieves Pick Apart Foreclosed House</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LATHROP, CA - Usually you can spot the foreclosure homes through abandoned yards and newspapers in the driveway. One home in Lathrop is identifiable by its missing garage door.
It&#8217;s in the Mossdale Landing development west of Interstate 5. The developer, Pacific Mountain Homes, has gone into foreclosure for the 66-home project.
What used to be one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Experts Meet to Brainstorm Foreclosure Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 19:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Some of the country&#8217;s top economists and bankers gathered with representatives from the Federal Reserve on the University of California, Berkeley campus. Their focus was falling home prices and the foreclosure crisis - one of the keys to getting the economy on a rebound.
Nearly half of all California homes sales in September were foreclosures. Reversing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banks Forced to Maintain Foreclosed Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 19:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Banks will face stiff fines for not maintaining foreclosed properties in Richmond. 
The city council decided Wednesday to fine banks up to $1,000 per day.
The decision was in response to the large number of foreclosed homes that are left unattended and falling into disrepair. A state law passed in July gives cities the authority to impose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosures smashing sales records, depressing prices</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreclosures have become so pervasive, they are improving sales in some locations,  but not without deeply depressing home prices. 
On the other side of the coin, foreclosure prevention law may be helping stem the tide.
Nationwide, one in every 475 homes was in some state of foreclosure in September and the rate of foreclosures for the third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush: bank buyout needed &#8216;to preserve free market&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Government is to spend up to $250 billion buying direct stakes in banks and other financial institutions under a controversial emergency plan which President Bush insisted today was &#8220;not intended to take over the free market but to preserve it&#8221;.
In a rescue scheme modelled on that announced for British banks by Gordon Brown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fed&#8217;s &#8216;Helicopter Economics&#8217; May Not Boost Housing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Fed’s “helicopter economics” — throwing money out of a helicopter to flood the market with liquidity — worked in the early 2000s, but it won’t turn the housing market around this time, says Eugenio J. Alemán, senior economist at Wells Fargo Economics.
When the Fed tried that approach to turn around the downturn in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure Rates Down in the Bay Area</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:58:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO   &#8212; The number of foreclosure notices is down in the Bay Area, but it&#8217;s not clear if there are fewer homeowners in trouble or if the drop is due to a new state law.The Mortgage Relief or Foreclosure Reform Bill passed by state lawmakers this year requires lenders to make a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Subprime to Stock Swoon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
This whole downward spiral seemed to start with U.S. subprime mortgages. What exactly are they?Subprime mortgages are home loans made to people who would not, under normal circumstances, be ideal candidates to get a mortgage - thus they are &#8220;subprime.&#8221; These are individuals who have a higher risk of defaulting on their loan, such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mortgage Crisis Has Turned Homeownership Upside Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joey Goldner always approached real estate with a gardener&#8217;s zeal. He&#8217;d plant his money in a building, patiently care for it and watch its worth grow. For 30 years, it was a brilliant avocation—right up until the heavy thud of the housing market helped flip Goldner&#8217;s mortgage upside down.
Facing debilitating health problems, Goldner refinanced his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sheriff Who Wouldn&#8217;t Evict</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Last week, Sheriff Tom Dart of Cook County, Illinois issued a press release that quickly became news across the country; he was suspending all foreclosure evictions in the area because banks weren&#8217;t notifiying tenants about their landlord&#8217;s problems. &#8220;These mortgage companies only see pieces of paper, not people, and don&#8217;t care who&#8217;s in the building,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Rated No. 3 in Foreclosures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida remained among the leading states in preforeclosures and bank repossessions, according to the U.S. Foreclosure Index report from Foreclosures.com.
Florida posted 64.2 year-to-date preforeclosure filings per 1,000 households, up 166 percent from the same period in 2007. Florida trailed only Nevada’s 77.8 filings per 1,000 households and Arizona’s 74.6 filings per 1,000 households for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA Fixed 30-year mortgage rates improve</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team 
The US have seen a reduction in their fixed 30-year mortgage rates, the average is now down to 5.99 percent down from 6.07 percent a week previous.
According to data published by an industry group on Wednesday, application for US residential mortgages climbed last week as home loan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wells Fargo Bank Lowers Prime Rate to 4.50 Percent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:53:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., said today it is lowering its prime rate from 5.00 percent to 4.50 percent, effective today, Oct. 8, 2008.Wells Fargo &#038; Company is a diversified financial services company with $609 billion in assets, providing banking, insurance, investments, mortgage and consumer finance through almost 6,000 stores and the internet (wellsfargo.com) across North America [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank of America and LaSalle Bank Lower Prime Lending Rate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct 08, 2008 &#8212; Bank of America, N.A., LaSalle Bank N.A. and LaSalle Bank Midwest N.A., announced today that they are lowering their prime-lending rates to 4.50 percent from 5.00 percent, effective October 8, 2008.
(In some Bank of America and LaSalle loan documentation, the term &#8220;reference rate&#8221; has been used to refer to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wachovia cuts prime lending rate to 4.5 percent</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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Charlotte, N.C. — Wachovia Corp. said Wednesday it lowered its prime lending rate to 4.5 percent from 5 percent.
The cut in the prime rate matches the 0.5 percent rate cut in the fed funds rate which the Federal Reserve Board announced earlier in the day.
The prime rate usually moves in lockstep with the fed funds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Mortgage Applications Up As Home Loan Rates Dip</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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NEW YORK, Oct 8  - Applications for U.S. residential mortgages climbed last week from the lowest level in a month as home loan rates declined, according to data published by an industry group on Wednesday.
Lending conditions remained tight with global financial markets in chaos, crimping mortgage activity, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pending Home Sales Up 7.4 Percent in August</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; Pending home sales rose 7.4 percent from July to August, an unexpected piece of positive news for the battered U.S. housing market.
The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday its seasonally adjusted index of pending sales for existing homes rose to 93.4 from an upwardly revised [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plunge in markets brings another kind of depression</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Porter Ranch man who murdered his family and killed himself last weekend as he faced financial ruin is the latest and most extreme case of a wave of distress washing over the American psyche.
Karthik Rajaram, an unemployed financial advisor, left a suicide note saying that his financial state left him few options but to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bank of America announces rescue plan for Countrywide borrowers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A massive homeowner rescue plan announced Monday by the Bank of America will commit $3.5 billion in relief for an estimated 125,000 Californians who are having trouble making payments on subprime loans and other risky mortgages from Countrywide Home Loans.
Bank of America bought Countrywide for $4 billion July 1 after the Calabasas-based home loan giant, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. 30-year mortgage rates steady in latest week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:40:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team 
WASHINGTON, Oct 2 - U.S. 30-year mortgage rates changed little in the latest week, according to a survey released on Thursday by home funding company Freddie Mac.
U.S. 30-year mortgage rates reached an average of 6.10 percent for the week ending Oct. 2, from 6.09 percent last week, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvest Properties owners of HomeVestors.com agrees to $350,000 payment</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1184-harvest-properties-owners-of-homevestorscom-agrees-to-350000-payment.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard announced a settlement Tuesday with Harvest Properties Inc. of Tucson resolving a fraud lawsuit against the foreclosure rescue company. 
Harvest Properties agreed to pay $350,000 to 100 consumers as part of the settlement, which included no admission of wrongdoing.
Goddard said the lawsuit alleged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homeowners Facing Foreclosure Ask: &#8220;Where Is Our Bailout?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1180-homeowners-facing-foreclosure-ask-where-is-our-bailout.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO- Jesus Navarro of South San Francisco is facing foreclosure, and he says the best thing for him may be to walk away from his home. He says he bought his house for $750,000 but it is now only worth about $500,000 and even at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defaults unveil fraud issues in mortgages</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s becoming clearer that mortgage fraud is behind many of the bad loans causing the nation&#8217;s financial crisis.
On the heels of the announced bailout plan, news of the FBI&#8217;s investigation of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for mortgage fraud leaked out. Several other big lenders are part of the crackdown.
Arizona&#8217;s mortgage fraud problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family gets new house after tragedies and foreclosure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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LAKE ORION &#8212; A year and a day after the tragic loss of two teenaged sons, Cliff and Vicki Schrauger accepted the keys to their new home in Newton Meadows subdivision Tuesday.
The family was given the split level two-story home, fully furnished and mortgage free, with the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure sales rise in Scottsdale</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foreclosure sales and deals on the city&#8217;s more-affordable homes are helping to keep the Scottsdale housing market going, according to the latest sales figures.
Foreclosure sales in Scottsdale in August more than doubled from a year ago, while home sales overall dipped just 4 percent to 345, according to the monthly report from the Arizona State [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Surprising Foreclosure Hot Spots</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1179-americas-surprising-foreclosure-hot-spots-2.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team  
The crisis on Wall Street is shrinking net worths and erasing nest eggs. Next on the block: multimillion-dollar homes.
In some of America&#8217;s wealthiest spots, that&#8217;s already happening. According to RealtyTrac, an Irvine, Calif.-based listing firm that tracks foreclosures and provided the data here, several of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure fix: Change Chapter 13</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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RALEIGH - As the mortgage meltdown continues, the federal government has bailed out some financial firms and let others fail. Foreclosures are at unprecedented levels, forcing people from their homes, decimating neighborhoods and depressing the real estate market. An amendment to the bankruptcy law that allows homeowners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s Surprising Foreclosure Hot Spots</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team
The crisis on Wall Street is shrinking net worths and erasing nest eggs. Next on the block: multimillion-dollar homes.
In some of America&#8217;s wealthiest spots, that&#8217;s already happening. According to RealtyTrac, an Irvine, Calif.-based listing firm that tracks foreclosures and provided the data here, several of the country&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Housing Crisis &#8220;Ground Zero&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1168-the-housing-crisis-ground-zero.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team
If you really want to see the effects of the foreclosure crisis, take a tour of Las Vegas. I&#8217;m not talking about the Strip, but rather, the city&#8217;s once-promising residential neighborhoods. That&#8217;s what Ben Tracy and I did for our report on housing for the series &#8220;Where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheaper mortgages getting likelier</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team
With financial institutions reeling from coast to coast, what does it all mean to the housing and mortgage markets whose problems triggered these catastrophes?
Believe it or not, the past eight days provided a dose of good news, at least in the short term, because mortgage rates are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home loan troubles break records again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; The source of trouble in the mortgage market has shifted from subprime loans made to borrowers with bad credit to homeowners who had solid credit but took out exotic loans with ballooning monthly payments.
The Mortgage Bankers Association said Friday that more than 4 million American homeowners with a mortgage - a record 9 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Applications to refinance home mortgages surge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team 
Homeowners rushed to take advantage of last week&#8217;s drop in interest rates following the government&#8217;s takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, but rates are rising again on investor fears over the eroding conditions in financial markets.
A mini-refinance boom started last Thursday but ended early Monday, said [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
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LOS ANGELES - The median home price in Southern California fell 34 percent in August from last year, a research firm said Wednesday.
The cost of new and resale homes and condos dropped to $330,000 last month in a six-county region.
It was down from $500,000 in August 2007 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Foreclosures Hit Record in August as Housing Prices Fell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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U.S. foreclosure filings rose to a record in August as falling home prices made it harder to sell or refinance homes to pay off the mortgage, RealtyTrac Inc. said.
Owners of 303,879 properties, or one in 416 U.S. households, got a default notice, were warned of a pending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin foreclosures up just 1 percent from last year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team  
Foreclosures in Wisconsin rose just 1.2 percent in August, compared with the same month last year, suggesting a slowdown in the rising rate of foreclosure filings.
Wisconsin&#8217;s number of foreclosures dropped the state in the national rankings from to 30th from 29th in July, according to RealtyTrac, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vallejo-Fairfield has fourth-highest metro foreclosure rate in August</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:54:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team   
Foreclosure filings &#8212; including default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions &#8212; were reported on 303,879 U.S. properties during August, a 12 percent increase from the previous month and a 27 percent increase from August 2007, according to a report released Friday.
The Stockton metro area led [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure Filings Rise, but Growth Slow&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Property foreclosure filings for August rose 12% from the prior month to reach the highest level by one measurement since at least early 2005, but year-to-year growth slowed substantially amid measures being taken to stem foreclosures.
Foreclosure-listing service RealtyTrac said there were foreclosure filings on 303,879 properties last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sacramento foreclosure rate was No. 10 in U.S. in August</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:44:26 +0000</pubDate>
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Foreclosure filings continued to rise around the United States and in California during August, with Stockton leading the nation in filing rate and Sacramento at No. 10 out of 230 metro areas studied. Filings of all types &#8212; default notices, auction sale notices and bank repossessions &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure Numbers Show Positive Sign&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team  
 A new report out Friday shows foreclosure numbers nationwide have hit a new high - with California among the hardest hit. But some say those same numbers show a glimmer of hope.
There is some good news here, of course, it&#8217;s based on perspective of the data. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosures up 32 percent in August in North Carolina</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of foreclosure filings reported in North Carolina in August rose 32 percent to 4,600, compared with August 2007, RealtyTrac Inc. said in a report to be released today. The number of filings was up 6.9 percent compared with July.
There were 506 foreclosure filings in the Winston-Salem metropolitan statistical area during August, up from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US government takes on big role in mortgage market</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team
WASHINGTON &#8212; Uncle Sam has just become the 800 pound gorilla in the U.S. mortgage market. The Bush administration is seizing troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in a bid to help reverse a prolonged housing and credit crisis.
But private analysts worried that it may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treasury briefs candidates on plan to seize Fannie, Freddie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson briefed Obama late Friday on plans to seize, perhaps as early as this weekend, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in an effort to bolster the pair and calm jittery global financial markets.
Paulson told Republican John McCain that Fannie and Freddie - which purchase [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fannie, Freddie blind to the bubble</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - despite their robust cadre of economists and mortgage experts - failed to heed warnings that the most dramatic housing bubble in U.S. history would burst.
The companies - particularly Freddie Mac - didn&#8217;t raise enough cash to reassure Wall Street that they would be able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30-year mortgages dip slightly to 6.35 percent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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WASHINGTON &#8212; Rates on 30-year mortgages fell for a third straight week, dropping to the lowest level since mid-July.
Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, reported Thursday that 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages dipped to 6.35 percent this week, down from 6.40 percent, the previous week. It marked the third consecutive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GMAC slashing work force, reduces mortgage lending</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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LOS ANGELES &#8212; Lender GMAC Financial Services said Wednesday it will close all of its 200 retail offices and lay off about 5,000 employees as part of plan to reduce its mortgage lending and servicing because of the housing market downturn.
The majority of the layoffs are slated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Estate Lender Is 10th Bank to Fail This Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Integrity Bank of Alpharetta, Ga., on Friday became the 10th United States bank to fail so far this year, hurt by the very business it was built on — real estate lending.
Regions Bank of Birmingham, Ala., is assuming all of Integrity Bank’s $974 million in insured and uninsured deposits in 23,000 accounts, and about $34.4 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure May Mean Eviction For Tenants</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
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Q:Even though I am a renter, the mortgage meltdown has me concerned about my rights if the house I rent goes into foreclosure. Do I have to move if my landlord loses her property in a foreclosure sale? 



A: It depends on who owns the property after the sale and whether you are a month-to-month tenant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Prices Drop By A Record Amount</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team
NEW YORK - A widely watched index released Tuesday showed home prices dropping by the sharpest rate ever in the second quarter, but the data for June suggest the severity of the housing slump may be waning.
The Standard &#038; Poor’s/Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index tumbled a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Value of Successful Home Staging</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team 
Have you ever walked into a beautifully decorated model home and been captivated by it? Did you find yourself dreaming of bathing in that spa-like bathroom, cooking meals in the gourmet kitchen or curling up with a book in that luxurious reading nook? If so, then you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real Estate Outlook: State of the Economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team 
Here&#8217;s how a top mortgage industry economist sees conditions in the market at the moment: It&#8217;s all kind of &#8220;flat&#8221;, says Orawin, senior forecast economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America.
What Dr. Velz was referring to were the latest big-picture, &#8220;macro&#8221; numbers on the U.S. economy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Homeowners: Don&#8217;t Fall Into Foreclosure Fraud</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team 
This is part three of a series triggered by a Maryland borrower who got a 100% stated-income loan for the purchase of his primary residence and less than one year later, he can not afford the monthly payments. He is a wage earner and his debt-to-income ratio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure Predictions and Dwindling Sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team
Existing-home sales in the Northeast were down nearly 12 percent last month when compared with July 2007, according to the latest figures from the National Association of Realtors. At the same time, the median sale price, or midpoint price, was $278,700, which is about 5 percent lower [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In housing market, &#8216;hints of a bottom&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News from the We Buy Houses Team
Though home prices continued to fall in July, there are growing signs that — in some regions at least — the market may be stabilizing as lower prices lure some buyers off the sidelines. But a broad housing recovery faces stiff headwinds in the form of rising [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ultimate Secret To Save Your Home From Foreclosure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Foreclosure is an attempt by the lender to seize the property of the mortgagee in default to his payments. The reason could be your financial shortfall that will force you to face foreclosure. It is a true fact that when people face foreclosure, many of the companies claiming to assist them do nothing. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona&#8217;s counties have highest foreclosure increase</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among Maricopa County cities, Tolleson led with the largest percentage increase in foreclosures and pre-foreclosures during the first half of this year compared with the same period in 2007.
Foreclosures in Tolleson were more than 600 percent higher while more than 300 percent more foreclosure notices were handed out. There were 352 foreclosures in Tolleson from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ed McMahon finds home buyer, avoids foreclosure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Television celebrity Ed McMahon has finally found a buyer for his multimillion-dollar Beverly Hills mansion, avoiding a foreclosure that would have made him among the most high-profile victims of the U.S. housing slump.The buyer of the six-bedroom, five-bathroom home was not disclosed, but McMahon spokesman Howard Bragman said on Friday it was not billionaire Donald [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosures up 213% for July over last year</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those waiting for the lagging housing market to rebound were disappointed yesterday, as MDA DataQuick reported that 2,004 San Diego County homes went into foreclosure in July, a 9 percent increase over the previous month and a spike of nearly 213 percent over last year.
The July tally of mortgage failures was a record since DataQuick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Existing Home Sales Don&#8217;t Signal Market Normalization, Economists Say</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Economists say the larger-than-expected rise in July U.S. existing home sales doesn&#8217;t necessarily point towards stabilization, since more than a third of the sales are related to foreclosures. They also note that a record high inventory level will put downward pressure on prices going forward.The annualized pace of sales in the National Association of Realtors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Damon Dash Of Roc A Fella Records in Foreclosure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK: Roc-A-Fella Records company co-founder Damon Dash and his wife are in jeopardy of losing two of their Manhattan apartments after apparently failing to pay their hefty mortgages.
The bank holding the mortgages says in a court filing Dash and Rachel Roy owe $7.3 million on the properties and it has begun foreclosure proceedings.
Eastern Savings Bank says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sellers on hold</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1144-sellers-on-hold.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For every home that sold in the first half of the year, 10 more would-be sellers in the Baltimore metro area were wishing, waiting, hoping.
With credit and economic woes weighing on buyers, that figure is twice as high as normal. And it&#8217;s night and day compared with the peak of the buying frenzy three years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The upside of home foreclosure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henrique Fernandes fell in love with the three-story red house with large rooms and an expansive backyard. The Cape Verdean immigrant envisioned his children running outside to play and his extended family celebrating holidays together.
It didn&#8217;t matter that the home sits on Hendry Street, a narrow avenue in Dorchester with boarded-up buildings, a neighborhood that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass foreclosures continue to hurt U.S. housing markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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The Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla., area recorded the highest foreclosure rate in the country in July, according to the monthly RealtyTrac report that monitors 230 metropolitan areas.
One in every 64 households in that Florida metro area received a foreclosure filing during the month, more than seven times the national average, the report said.
The national average [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can I avoid foreclosure?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:33:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses
Are you having trouble keeping up with your mortgage payments?
Have you received a notice from your lender asking you to contact them?
The Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, has 10 tips you can follow to avoid losing your house:
1. Don&#8217;t ignore the problem: The further behind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Foreclosure Crisis Creates Opportunities For Buyers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[written by Patrick McGilvray 
The epidemic of American homes being lost to the foreclosure process has been wreaking havoc in countless families across the nation as well as innumerable boardrooms and investment funds around the world.
CHARLOTTE, NC – The epidemic of American homes being lost to the foreclosure process has been wreaking havoc in countless families across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida jumps to third place in home foreclosures</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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TAMPA, FL &#8212; The number of Florida foreclosures in July added up to a third place finish nationwide, according to a report released Wednesday by the research firm RealtyTrac.
Previously, Florida ranked fourth nationwide in foreclosures.  Nevada led the nation in July in the number one spot.  California was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colorado 8th in July foreclosures</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:29:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Colorado’s foreclosure rate was the eighth-highest in the nation in July, down from seventh place in June, according to data released Thursday by RealtyTrac Inc. 
Colorado had 5,376 properties in foreclosure in July, or one in every 390 households, according to RealtyTrac, an Irvine, Calif.-based marketer of foreclosure properties. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY foreclosures up 44% in July</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses 
Home foreclosure filings in New York increased 44 percent in July compared to a year ago, according to RealtyTrac.
The number of homes in some stage of the foreclosure process was 6,167, according to the Irvine, Calif.-based company, which tracks foreclosure filings and markets distressed properties.
New York ranked 30th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Gets $1.2B in Foreclosure Help</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1134-california-gets-12b-in-foreclosure-help.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses 
L.A. Prepares to Recycle Foreclosed Homes in City. “With Los Angeles&#8217; foreclosure rate surging by nearly 300%, city housing officials said Wednesday that they hope to help stabilize the market soon with millions of dollars in federal funds that would let them buy and resell homes already or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Let Foreclosure Destroy Your Mind</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1140-dont-let-foreclosure-destroy-your-mind.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses
The foreclosure filings piling up across the country are taking a toll not just on banks and Americans&#8217; personal finances, but on their mental state as well.
Nearly 1.7 million homes have been foreclosed upon so far this year, and the pace has accelerated. RealtyTrac reported on Thursday that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home foreclosures in Texas trending downward in still &#8216;bloated&#8217; housing market</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1132-home-foreclosures-in-texas-trending-downward-in-still-bloated-housing-market.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
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The Texas residential real-estate market is experiencing a reduction in the number of homes hitting the foreclosure block.
According to the July report compiled by Irvine, Calif.-based RealtyTrac, over the month of July, a total of 10,354 homes in Texas entered the foreclosure process &#8212; marking a 6.3 percent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Home Sales Fall to 10-Year Low as Prices Tumble</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1131-us-home-sales-fall-to-10-year-low-as-prices-tumble.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses
Existing U.S. home sales fell to a 10-year low in the second quarter and the median price for a single-family house dropped 7.6 percent as the real estate recession deepened.
The median price tumbled to $206,500 from $223,500 a year earlier, the Chicago-based National Association of Realtors said today. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US foreclosure filings surge 55 percent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses
The number of homeowners stung by the dramatic decline in the U.S. housing market jumped last month as foreclosure filings grew by more than 50 percent compared with the same month a year ago, according to data released Thursday.
Nationwide, more than 272,000 homes received at least one foreclosure-related [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hawaii, 13 other states high in pre-foreclosure filings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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Pre-foreclosures reached a record last month in 14 states and the District of Columbia, including Hawaii.
Hawaii had 373 pre-foreclosure filings, a new monthly record, but still a relatively small number when compared to other states, according to new statistics released by ForeclosureS.com of Sacramento, Calif.
California had 25.2 pre-foreclosure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Foreclosure Problem: Death By A Thousand Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses
The rate of foreclosures continues to accelerate. That generally means that banks are dumping them as fast as they can. Banks don&#8217;t want to own houses. And, why should they? The value of the asset class is still falling.
The federal government is probably going about trying to steady [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona ranks second in July foreclosure fillings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses
Pre-foreclosures hit record highs in July both nationally and in 14 states and the District of Columbia, according to ForeclosureS.com.
Arizona ranked second for the most filings per 1,000 households at 54.9. Nevada was No. 1 at 59.1. Florida and California came in third and fourth.
&#8220;So far this year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Clara County foreclosures rise nearly fivefold; home values plunge</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1124-santa-clara-county-foreclosures-rise-nearly-fivefold-home-values-plunge.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Nearly five times as many homeowners in Santa Clara County lost their properties to foreclosure last month than in July 2007, signaling there&#8217;s no end in sight to the local mortgage crisis. Even many county residents not threatened by foreclosure saw their home values plummet in the second [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure of 88-year-old leads to standoff</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1123-foreclosure-of-88-year-old-leads-to-standoff.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Authorities say a son held Bergen County sheriff&#8217;s officers at gunpoint as they tried to evict his 88-year-old mother from her foreclosed home.
Officials say John Brennan threatened two officers with a .22-caliber handgun.
Officers talked to the 60-year-old, who surrendered after about five minutes when a SWAT team arrived Tuesday.
Beatrice Brennan had refinanced her two-bedroom, $250,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dallas-Fort Worth foreclosure postings rise 7%</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1141-dallas-fort-worth-foreclosure-postings-rise-7.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest foreclosure statistics show only a 7 percent increase in the Dallas-Fort Worth area from a year ago.
But more than 3,700 homes are scheduled for foreclosure sale in September, according to the numbers released Thursday by Addison-based Foreclosure Listing Service.
The biggest gain in September foreclosures is in Collin County, where the number of homes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to buy a foreclosed home</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1122-how-to-buy-a-foreclosed-home-3.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:33:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hoping to score a house on the cheap by buying a foreclosed property? There are good deals out there, but the process is complicated and risky. Here&#8217;s what you need to know.There are certainly plenty of foreclosed homes on the market. In California, 40% of existing homes sold in the second quarter were foreclosures, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How housing rescue bill can help you</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses 
President Bush signed a $300 billion housing rescue bill Wednesday aimed at helping troubled homeowners avoid foreclosure and supporting mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
After the law kicks in on Oct. 1, thousands of at-risk borrowers will be able to refinance their unaffordable old mortgages into new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California mortgage official says loaning criteria have been tightened too much</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses  
Complaining that even many credit-worthy borrowers can no longer qualify for mortgages, the president of the California Association of Mortgage Brokers on Thursday called for exceptions to underwriting criteria that tightened in response to skyrocketing foreclosures.
The lending industry should create &#8220;sensible alternative loan products&#8221; that, for instance, would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>San Jose firm at center of real estate probe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses 
The officers of a San Jose-based company that helped real estate investors defer paying capital gains taxes are under investigation after accusing each other of embezzling millions of dollars from the company and its clients.
Homes of the principals of Vesta Strategies and the company&#8217;s office were searched Thursday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>E. Palo Alto leads foreclosure pack</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1118-e-palo-alto-leads-foreclosure-pack.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses 
In a dubious distinction amid the nationwide foreclosure meltdown, East Palo Alto has the highest number of properties in default and in bank ownership per capita than any other city in San Mateo County, according to a report from EPA Can Do, a local nonprofit that provides assistance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to buy a foreclosed home</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1117-how-to-buy-a-foreclosed-home-2.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses 
Hoping to score a house on the cheap by buying a foreclosed property? There are good deals out there, but the process is complicated and risky. Here&#8217;s what you need to know.
There are certainly plenty of foreclosed homes on the market. In California, 40% of existing homes sold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freddie Mac to Double Incentives To Servicers to Avoid Foreclosures</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1116-freddie-mac-to-double-incentives-to-servicers-to-avoid-foreclosures.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:22:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses Team
Freddie Mac, which has been stung by surging delinquencies, will double the financial incentives it offers to mortgage servicers that help borrowers with Freddie-owned loans avoid foreclosure.
The mortgage giant has struggled in recent months as federal officials have sought to reassure investors about its financial health and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Avoid &#8216;Foreclosure Rescue Scams&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1115-how-to-avoid-foreclosure-rescue-scams.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We buy Houses Team
 
Posted August 7, 2008
While the national housing crisis has put hundreds of thousands of Americans in danger of losing their homes, it has also created a fresh opportunity for scam artists. The so-called foreclosure rescue scams target homeowners facing the possibility of losing their property to foreclosure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who pays when lenders fail?</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1114-who-pays-when-lenders-fail.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there is any silver lining to the second largest thrift failure in U.S. history, it is this: the IndyMac bank collapse has ironically resulted in the nation&#8217;s first foreclosure moratorium. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, after taking over IndyMac, declared it would halt all foreclosures on the $15 billon worth of IndyMac mortgages and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY Governor Signs Foreclosure Help Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses 
 Help may be here for many homeowners facing foreclosure in Queens and throughout the rest of the state.
Governor David Paterson joined more than a dozen Queens elected officials at Queens Borough Hall on Tuesday morning, August 5, to sign legislation that he hopes will begin to slow down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watsonville woman accused in foreclosure scam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses
WATSONVILLE - A Watsonville woman already accused of defrauding an elderly Salinas woman out of thousands of dollars now faces charges she scammed at least seven South County homeowners in a bogus refinancing scheme.
Most lost their homes.
Melissa Dawn Garcia, 27, allegedly told homeowners nearing foreclosure that she could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Real estate commission fees: it&#8217;s good to haggle</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1111-real-estate-commission-fees-its-good-to-haggle.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses
NEW YORK – Don&#8217;t be shy about haggling over what you pay your real estate agent.
A study released Monday by Consumer Reports found 71 percent of sellers who negotiated for lower commissions with their brokers were successful. But only 46 percent of sellers surveyed tried
Those who paid commissions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tight market a big topic at real estate show</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses 
They&#8217;ve seen the future of real estate and it looks an awful lot like Web 2.0.
Real Estate Connect at San Francisco&#8217;s ornate Palace Hotel in late July brought together real estate executives, brokers, agents, analysts, lenders, investors, bloggers, authors and others to hear and see the latest trends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal bill may slow foreclosures</title>
		<link>http://thehomebuyingcenter.com/wordpress/1109-federal-bill-may-slow-foreclosures.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:07:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses
President Bush signed into law one of the most far-reaching housing bills yet in an effort to stabilize the tumultuous housing market.
The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 includes a Federal Housing Administration overhaul that is meant to simplify and make FHA-backed mortgages more available while helping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parking Ticket Leads to Home Foreclosure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man, I&#8217;ve got to start reading the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel more often . . .
As an increasing number of property owners lose their homes to exotic mortgage products and falling home values, the city of Milwaukee has foreclosed on a resident’s house because he failed to pay a parking ticket.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Peter Tubic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY governor signs foreclosure bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses
NEW YORK - Gov. David Paterson has signed legislation giving New Yorkers an extra 90 days to save their homes from foreclosure.
The bill, signed on Tuesday, aims to help homeowners who sought subprime loans.
The 90-day grace period is being added to what is typically a 440-day foreclosure process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Avoid Foreclosure Scams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses
Just this week, Congress passed a bill that will, hopefully, offer some type of relief to some families facing the threat of home foreclosure. Sadly, however, there are ruthless con artists using our country’s weak housing market and credit crisis to try to rip-off millions of cash-strapped Americans.
According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure Scam Artist Target Homeowners Beware and Prepared</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses
Homeowners facing the frightening threat of foreclosure have to be on the lookout for ripoffs.
A &#8220;mortgage rescue&#8221; company steps forward, claiming to be able to help you save your credit and your home. In some cases, the &#8220;mortgage rescue&#8221; company provides phantom help offering to work as an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If they want money to fight foreclosure, it may be scam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses
Jeffery Brown offered a lifeline to homeowners swamped by the rising tide of foreclosures.
For an upfront fee, Brown’s DB Financial Group would agree to negotiate with lenders on behalf of those who had fallen behind on their mortgage payments. If he couldn’t work out a deal, he promised, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fannie, Freddie Do More To Prevent Foreclosures</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, trying to contain mortgage-default losses, are redoubling efforts to prevent foreclosures.
In some cases, though, these moves may only delay the inevitable, easing pressure on the companies&#8217; finances in the short term without resolving their troubles.
The two U.S.-government-sponsored guarantors of home loans last week [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nevada Considers Ways to Deal with Foreclosures</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Real Estate News From the We Buy Houses

According to some key lawmakers, Nevada might follow California&#8217;s lead by enacting legislation intended to fight the foreclosure crisis.
The Legislative Commission&#8217;s Subcommittee to Study Mortgage Lending and Housing Issues on Monday will consider recommendations for the 2009 session.
A report found that Nevada had the highest foreclosure rate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LA foreclosures spread to Malibu, Santa Monica</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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New foreclosures more than tripled in Los Angeles and more than doubled in Miami in July from a year ago, with more than $2 billion of mortgages turning sour in Los Angeles alone, real estate research website PropertyShark.com said.
The number of newly scheduled auctions of foreclosed properties in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure filings continue at record pace</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Foreclosure filings in Wisconsin continue at a record pace in July.
New figures from the tracking company ForeclosuresWI.com released Monday show nearly 14,300 filings in the first seven months of the year. That&#8217;s a 31 percent increase over the same period last year.
ForeclosureWI president Robert Jensen says between 2003 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>City Attorney Asks BofA To Stop Foreclosures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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San Diego City Attorney Michael Aguirre Thursday called on the Bank of America to voluntarily stop foreclosures against certain properties within the city with mortgages held by Countrywide Financial Corp.
 
The City Attorney&#8217;s Office last week filed suit against the bank, which bought Countrywide earlier this year as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosures: Worst still to come</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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Phoenix had a staggering 534 percent increase in foreclosures in the first half of 2008, and it appears the worst may be yet to come.
The percentage gain represents an increase of about 5,000 homes foreclosed from year to year, according to data provided by Information Market.
&#8220;This is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As homes foreclose, more people turn to rentals</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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If the collapse of the real estate market has an upside, it is this, says Tish Arciniega, owner and manager of Main Street Realty in Hemet: It is a great time for homebuyers, especially those looking for starter homes.
“This is an excellent market for that,” she said Tuesday.
Hemet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Prices Fell in 23 of 25 U.S. Metro Areas in May</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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Home prices fell in 23 of 25 U.S. metropolitan areas in May from a year earlier as foreclosure sales pushed down values and most areas remained mired in the housing recession.
Sacramento had the biggest price drop, falling 31 percent from May 2007. Prices declined 29.5 percent in Las [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Front: How Sacramento area housing market shapes up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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Three years ago this month, median sales prices peaked in Sacramento County. The result: The end of the housing boom.
In August 2005, Mike Lyon, head of Sacramento&#8217;s Lyon Real Estate, told The Bee that the &#8220;bell has tolled.&#8221; All signs, he said, pointed to a &#8220;changing market.&#8221;
In months [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ABC Show: Extreme Makeover Home in Foreclosure</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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From rebuilt to foreclosed: A home featured on an episode of the ABC television show “Extreme Makeover” (pictured, left) in January 2005 is scheduled to be auctioned off at the Clayton County Courthouse on August 5, according to, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports.
The Harper family of Lake City, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UC Irvine real estate study blames mortgage crisis on home loan limits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
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Federal constraints imposed earlier this decade on government-sponsored mortgage investors should be blamed for the proliferation of high-risk loans and price escalation followed by foreclosures &#8212; the bubble and bust &#8212; that has slammed the nation&#8217;s housing market, according to a study released Wednesday.
Saying that loans to borrowers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass. foreclosure cases plummet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
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The number of foreclosure proceedings initiated in Massachusetts plummeted in June, a sign that a new state law delaying property takings is working.


There were just 350 new cases brought by lenders against delinquent homeowners last month, compared with 2,308 in June 2007, according to Warren Group, a Boston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1-NY state foreclosures rise, most in NY City area</title>
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