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Officials look for answers to county foreclosure rateMEDIA - Some 46 homes were sold at auction during the April sheriff's sale in the county meeting room of the government center Friday, almost all of them reverting back to mortgage lenders in "dollar sales."
Delaware County Sheriff Joseph F. McGinn said 44 of the total 247 properties up for sale went back to the lenders, while two were sold to third parties.
Another 142 were continued to a later date, he said, and 56 were stayed, or removed from the sale docket altogether. One was also postponed due to bankruptcy.
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| by Michael Rellahan |
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County spend $1 million to buffer bird habitat from encroaching development
WEST CHESTER - If they listen closely along the banks of the Upper Crum Creek in Willistown, Chester County commissioners might detect the winged tweet of thanks from a Louisiana waterthrush.
And from a Kentucky warbler, a hooded warbler, a prairie warbler, a blue-winged warbler, and a meadowlark as well.
These six species make their homes in the Upper Ridley Creek Important Bird Area, and last week the commissioners dedicated $1 million in county tax dollars to preserving a portion of it.
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| by Al Heavens |
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On the House: A break from gloom and doom
In a real estate market filled with news of fresh disaster, it's time now for something completely different:
Hannah Mude and Steve Mishkin had absolutely no problem finding a house they loved quickly and getting the mortgage they needed to buy it.
They found the house in January, settled April 6, and were in by April 8 - in time for Mude to report excitedly that she'd seen two foxes in their backyard just after dawn the next day.
Their only problem, if you consider it so, was dealing with multiple bidders - two other prospective buyers also interested in the 25-year-old, three-bedroom single in Chester Springs.
Sounds like a story from the boom times.
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