Here’s some good news, home foreclosure rates in Peoria are down compared to this time last year. Numbers from a collector of home prices show the foreclosure rate down a tenth of a percent, still a gain on the books.
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The tallest building in Boston sold for $660.6 million at a foreclosure auction in New York Tuesday — about half the price it sold for just three years ago.
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THE cholera epidemic in the country has passed its worst, with both the rate of infection and fatalities falling, according to the World Health Organisation.

Home prices drop record 19 percent

Date
1 Month
1 Year
June 2006 (Peak)
5 Year

AZ-Phoenix
-6%
-35%
-49%
-8%

CA-Los Angeles
-3%
-26%
-39%
-6%

CA-San Diego
-3%
-25%
-41%
-20%

CA-San Francisco
-4%
-32%
-43%
-20%

CO-Denver
-3%
-5%
-12%
-4%

DC-Washington
-2%
-19%
-31%
2%

FL-Miami
-4%
-29%
-43%
-4%

FL-Tampa
-4%
-23%
-37%
1%

GA-Atlanta
-3%
-14%
-18%
-8%

IL-Chicago
-5%
-16%
-22%
-5%

MA-Boston
-2%
-7%
-15%
-5%

MI-Detroit
-4%
-23%
-37%
-35%

MN-Minneapolis
-5%
-20%
-30%
-20%

NC-Charlotte
-1%
-8%
-4%
10%

NV-Las Vegas
-4%
-32%
-46%
-14%

NY-New York
-1%
-10%
-16%
11%

OH-Cleveland
-2%
-5%
-16%
-11%

OR-Portland
-3%
-14%
-13%
26%

TX-Dallas
-2%
-5%
-9%
-1%

WA-Seattle
-4%
-15%
-13%
24%

Composite-10
-3%
-19%
-30%
-3%

Composite-20
-3%
-19%
-29%
-3%

Home prices in 20 cities fell a record-breaking 19 percent in January from the previous year, a sign that the prolonged housing slump shows no sign of abating, according to S&P/Case-Shiller Homes Prices Index data released today.
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Led by local housing expert Suzanne Merusi, the workshop will provide Covington residents and local business owners information, advice and tools to better understand the foreclosure process as well as ways to prevent it.
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Wells Fargo has been lumped in with other financial-services companies whose shares have tumbled, but it’s much healthier than many of its rivals.

March 31 (Bloomberg) — Bank of America Corp. , Wells Fargo & Co. and BB&T Corp. are all expected to turn higher operating profits than earlier estimated on the banks’ mortgage and trading businesses, Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group Inc. said.

A program linking job training with foreclosure-avoidance efforts in Connecticut has put the state “ahead of the curve,” Gov. M. Jodi Rell said Monday.
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Sandwiched between the soft-drink popcorn ads and sneak previews at movie theaters, you’ll soon see an ad from the Federal Reserve. The ads are an effort to warn homeowners about foreclosure scams.
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Kampala — The Government has saved over sh4b since the introduction of community service in 2001, an official has said. Paul Kintu, the commissioner in-charge of community service, said over 17,000 offenders had been sentenced to communal service countrywide in the last eight years.