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Foreclosure homes may not be best bet for first-time buyers
Daily Citizen-News - But she said that with foreclosure rates soaring, many private lenders are also requiring homebuyers to complete such a course so they are prepared to buy and own a home.
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Bernanke Pledges Fed Will Act in a `Timely Manner’ (Update1)
Bloomberg - New-home sales fell last month to the lowest level since February 1995 even as prices slid by a record 15 percent Frank, who chairs the House panel, yesterday announced a proposal to provide $35 billion in federal funds to buy homes in foreclosure
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Subprime Bailout: Good Idea or ‘Moral Hazard?’
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Housing bill will ‘bail out lenders’ - Bush
CNN Money - also objects to a provision in the bill that would provide $4 billion to let state and local government buy and and let lenders recoup some of the principal forfeited in bankruptcy should the borrower later sell his home. “The Foreclosure
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Scam Leaves Homeowners Empty-Handed
CBS News - Companies like Foreclosure Rescue Management offer to hold the title to your home for a year. She’d like to buy back her home, but the mortgage payments have more than doubled.
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Poll Shows Clinton with Big Lead Over Obama in WV
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AP Business NewsBrief at 2:13 p.m. EST
CNBC - US Home Prices Down Sharply news://newsclip.ap.org/D8V24TLG0@news.ap.org LOS ANGELES (AP) _ The number of homes facing foreclosure jumped 57 percent in January have helped fuel the rally by triggering automatic computer programs set to buy
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Foreclosures May Be Hard To Find
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Correction - Fitch Announces Various Rating Actions on Mortgage
Raleigh News & Observer - has been the poor underwriting process demonstrated by many mortgage lenders the past few years, combined with the continued and accelerating national home price decline which has eliminated the option to sell or refinance a home to avoid foreclosure
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Bernanke Fails to Cut Loan Rates for Most Americans (Update1)
Bloomberg - Total foreclosure filings, which include default and auction notices as well as bank seizures, increased 57 percent. Home Sales, Prices
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Big Blue Helps Stocks Bounce Back
Street.Com - Research firm RealtyTrac said foreclosure filings were reported on 233,001 properties in January, an increase of 8% from December and up almost 57% from the same month last year. Separately, the S&P/Case-Shiller home-price index had the steepest
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Army: Force out of balance, must reduce soldiers’ time in combat
Detroit News - This election season, they say, voters will blame Republicans for supporting the war at a time of rising health care and college costs and in the midst of a mortgage foreclosure crisis.
Source: www.detnews.com

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Baltimore Sun - DiGirolamo, a real estate agent with Long & Foster in Canton who’s handling one of the three rowhouses - a foreclosure taken back by the lender. Buy Foreclosure Home

Christian Science Monitor - When homes go into foreclosure, banks face a pileup of bad assets on their books. Already, that has caused banks to start tightening the spigot on new lending. Buy Foreclosure Home

Baltimore Sun - The Bush administration and six major mortgage lenders announced that they would hit the pause button for anyone facing (or about to face) foreclosure. Buy Foreclosure Home

MSNBC - WASHINGTON - With an unhurried stride and a fresh stack of mortgage loans gone bad, Rick Crossley arrived at the small plaza outside the Prince William County courthouse on a bright, windy morning recently and found it deserted. He cleared his throat Buy Foreclosure Home

Detroit News - Jennifer Granholm for deciding last year to forgo a round of federal tax credit awards that they say immediately cost the state construction jobs and investment in low-income homes during the foreclosure crisis. Buy Foreclosure Home

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