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A report from the Oregonian. "Oregon suffered its first bank failure in 17 years Friday afternoon when state regulators closed Pinnacle Bank, a small, one-office institution in Beaverton. Pinnacle is the third Northwest bank seized by regulators since September. The Bank of Clark County in...

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It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "A Newsday review of home sales data shows that, across Long Island, 88 of 127 school districts saw declines in median home prices of actual sales from 2006 to 2007. Ten of them, in communities across Long Island, including Quogue, East Williston and...

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The Sacramento Bee reports from California. "California's unemployment rate rose to 9.3 percent in December, slightly above the 8.7 percent recorded for the greater Sacramento area. Andrea Hawkins said she was doing well financially, running a mortgage business out of her Elk Grove home until the...

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The Rutland Herald reports from Vermont. "According to Jill Alderman, president of the Rutland County Board of Realtors, there is a surplus of homes for sale in the county. For homes up to $200,000, Alderman said there is a nine to 12-month inventory. Homes $200,000 to $300,000, the inventory of...

For those in the process of finalizing your registration plans, please wrap this up as we are waiting to place the T-shirt order. A report from the Las Vegas Sun. "Anyone looking to regain the appreciation they lost on their homes during the correction over the last 18 months is going to have to...

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The Lawrence Journal World reports from Kansas. "In 2008, 1,360 properties were sold in Douglas County, nearly all of them residential, according to Board of Realtors statistics. That was down 21 percent from the 1,677 properties sold in 2007. Jennifer Harrell has been trying to sell her Lawrence...

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The Miami Herald reports from Florida. "Gov. Charlie Crist and a throng of supporters packed the lawn of Keith and Elizabeth Markowitz's Orlando home to launch the Amendment 1 property tax campaign with a promise: if the referendum passed, they would no longer be 'trapped in their homes.' A year...

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The Marin Independent Journal reports from California. "Marin's median price for the 2,153 homes sold in 2008 was $767,000, a 13 percent drop from the $879,450 median based on 2,724 sales in 2007, according to the county assessor's office. Last year was the county's first median price reduction in...

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It's Friday desk clearing time for this blogger. "In all, Rhode Island recorded 3,479 foreclosures last year, among 390,403 residential properties. 'It’s not just community by community; it’s neighborhood by neighborhood,' said Richard H. Godfrey, executive director the state’s housing agency....

This is a fresh thread for new posts on the LV meeting. The deadline for registering for the meeting room is Feb. 6th. "The first International HBB Meeting will be held in Las Vegas Friday, February 20th through Sunday, February 22nd! The meeting will officially start at 3pm Friday (check-in) and...