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North Carolina foreclosure hotspots

Foreclosure filings rose in 81 of 100 N.C. counties in the first half of 2008.

Beazer Homes neighborhood feels fallout from foreclosures
By Ames Alexander | E-mail | July 10, 2009
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Over 50% of starter homes in Barrington were affected. ‘They've ruined it,' man says.
Mary Newsom: What Beazer Homes hath wrought
June foreclosures way up from last year
By Stella M. Hopkins | E-mail | July 10, 2009

Mecklenburg County foreclosure activity jumped again last month.

Beazer may never pay up in full
By Kirsten Valle | E-mail | July 10, 2009

A day after Beazer Homes promised to pay $50 million to victims of its predatory lending practices, analysts say the actual payout might not be as hefty – and that not everyone who deserves money will get it.

Archive of Beazer stories
Read The Observer's 'Sold A Nightmare' series

Southern Chase was a new kind of subdivision for Beazer, an experiment in selling low-cost homes to low-income families. The strategy was a financial success for Beazer. But the neighborhood fell apart.

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Sold a nightmare: Part 1 of 4
Starter homes, sad endings: Part 2 of 'Sold a nightmare'
One builder, hundreds of foreclosures: Part 3 of 'Sold a nightmare'
Failed mortgages fly under the radar: Part 4 of 'Sold a nightmare'
Unpaid dues lead to foreclosures

Thousands of Americans who have generally kept up with their mortgages are still in danger of losing their homes because they made a fateful trade-off in this shaky economy – they let their homeowner association dues slide.

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Foreclosure in Mecklenburg County

The number of foreclosures in Mecklenburg County has spiked since 2003. That's due largely to increasing foreclosures in neighborhoods of new starter homes, shown on the map in red.

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