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<![CDATA[Three Bay Area real estate investors to plead guilty in foreclosure auction fraud]]>
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<![CDATA[Three Northern California real estate investors have agreed to plead guilty for their roles in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Contra Costa County.]]>
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<![CDATA[rhurd@bayareanewsgroup.com (Rick Hurd / Contra Costa Times)]]>
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<![CDATA[Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:28:00 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Californians to get up to $18 billion in mortgage relief in settlement with nation's biggest lenders]]>
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<![CDATA[Embattled California homeowners will see at least $12 billion, but more steps needed to solve housing crisis]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Pete Carey pcarey@mercurynews.com)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:29:36 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[More help for Walnut Creek affordable housing]]>
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<![CDATA[City Council approves $500,000 for Third Avenue Apartments]]>
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<![CDATA[enardi@bayareanewsgroup.com (Elisabeth Nardi / Contra Costa Times)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:24:20 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[South Bay commercial real estate market heats up]]>
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<![CDATA[Silicon Valley developers are racing to erect office and R&D buildings to meet a fresh surge of expansions by tech companies that's turning the region into a commercial real estate boomtown.]]>
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<![CDATA[gavalos@bayareanewsgroup.com (George Avalos / Oakland Tribune)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:07:37 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Pinole good Samaritan gets stay on auction of his home]]>
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<![CDATA[Legal aid firm and supervisor intervene, get one-month stay]]>
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<![CDATA[tlochner@bayareanewsgroup.com (Tom Lochner / Contra Costa Times)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:55:06 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Walnut Creek to consider three proposals for development of 1500 Mt. Diablo]]>
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<![CDATA[Three developers have three distinctly different visions for 1500 Mt. Diablo Blvd.The parcel, now a small city parking lot in the shadow of Tiffany's, Neiman Marcus and Pottery Barn, is up for sale by the city.]]>
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<![CDATA[enardi@bayareanewsgroup.com (Elisabeth Nardi  /  Contra Costa Times)]]>
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<![CDATA[Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:52:09 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Popular Bay Area blues musician faces eviction in Vallejo]]>
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<![CDATA[VALLEJO -- The shock of being unable to find affordable housing in Vallejo has come like a pail of icy water dumped over the head of one of the Bay Area's most prominent blues musicians.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Bay Area News Group)]]>
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<![CDATA[Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:27:41 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Four East bay residents plead guilty in $20 million mortgage loan fraud scheme]]>
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<![CDATA[Four people last week pleaded guilty in federal court to charges relating to a far-reaching mortgage loan fraud scheme involving at least 20 properties and more than $20 million in loan proceeds in Northern California, according to the U.S. attorney's office.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Kristin J. Bender  / Oakland Tribune)]]>
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<![CDATA[Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:53:18 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Key states move closer to foreclosure-abuse deal]]>
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<![CDATA[California and New York, the key holdouts in a long-awaited settlement over foreclosure abuses, moved closer Monday to backing a deal that would force the five largest mortgage lenders to reduce loans for about 1 million households]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Associated Press)]]>
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<![CDATA[Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:23:44 -0700]]>
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<![CDATA[Foreclosures at the high end increase across the Bay Area]]>
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<![CDATA[More million-dollar-and-up homes are going into foreclosure or forced into short sales, as the housing crisis catches up with those on the higher end of the market.]]>
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<![CDATA[editor@contracostatimes.com (Pete Carey pcarey@mercurynews.com)]]>
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<![CDATA[Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:26:52 -0700]]>
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