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• Do New Mortgage Rules Make Borrowers Safer?

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Realty Trac 

  You could hardly miss the headlines this week: More than 1,000 news outlets covered new rules from the Federal Reserve designed to "protect" America's mortgage borrowers.

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  Related Topix: Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Local Headlines

• Mass. Home Prices Take Nose Dive

  May 27, 2008 | via TheBostonChannel 

  As home prices continue to fall sharply in Massachusetts, the decline in the number of homes sold is easing, according to a new report.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home Listing, Home, Real Estate

• Dacia Street on board as next Hub fixer-upper

  May 10, 2008 | via Boston Herald 

  M ayor Thomas M. Menino 's administration is tracking foreclosures across the city and this week will deploy blight-fighting city workers to a Dorchester neighborhood as part of an innovative campaign to rescue ...

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  Related Topix: Suffolk County, MA, Dorchester, MA, Foreclosures, Boston, MA

• Hiawatha Bray discusses online backup options

  May 1, 2008 | via Boston Globe 

  Politics - Student Video Foreclosures Interest Rates Local News Lifestyle Local Music Videos Mitt Romney Mortgage Rates Energy Prices New England A&E Odds and Ends [ description ] The Hull Board of Selectmen ...

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• Can occupancy rule stop students from doubling up?

  Apr 27, 2008 | via Boston.com Real Estate 

  It's been more than a month since city officials unanimously passed a zoning ordinance that makes it illegal for more than four undergraduate college students to live together in a leased apartment.

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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Allston, MA, Real Estate, Boston, MA

• MEFA suspending federally guaranteed student loans

  Apr 16, 2008 | via WBZ-AM Allston 

  MEFA says the mortgage crisis and a series of federal changes have made it difficult for the nonprofit state organization to secure funds for its federal education loan programs.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Allston, MA

Regional Headlines

• U.S. foreclosures surge in June

  Yesterday | via Providence Business News 

  The number of foreclosure actions reported statewide increased last month in Rhode Island but fell slightly in Massachusetts compared with May, as the situation nationwide worsened sharply.

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  Related Topix: Massachusetts, Foreclosures

• Mass. woman kills self before home foreclosure: police

  Wednesday | via Slam Sports 

  A 53-year-old wife and mother fatally shot herself shortly after faxing a letter to her mortgage company saying that by the time they foreclosed on her house that day, she would be dead.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Personal Finance, Mortgage, Winter Sports, Curling

• Pond View auction postponed

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA 

  A foreclosure auction of the last, unbuilt piece of Pond View Village - aimed at giving the chief lender a saleable title free of more than $1.5 million owed to contractors for the state and defaulting ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Massachusetts

• Foreclosures continue to climb in Massachusetts

  Monday Jul 21 | via Boston Business Journal 

  New Massachusetts residential foreclosures reached a temporary lull in June because of new regulations forcing a 90-day waiting period.

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• Mass. foreclosures in holding pattern

  Monday Jul 21 | via The Boston Globe 

  Massachusetts foreclosure filings dropped 85 percent in June from a year ago, largely because of a recent change in foreclosure regulations, said ForeclosuresMass.com, a Framingham-based provider of ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• U.S. Senate to Vote on Housing Bill

  3 min ago | via RedOrbit 

  The U.S. Senate, meeting in a rare weekend session, was poised Saturday to pass a landmark housing bill meant to ease the effects of mortgage crisis.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• U.s. Congress Passes...

  4 min ago | via 102.9 CKDS-FM 

  U.S. Congress passed a housing rescue bill Saturday aimed at sparing 400,000 struggling homeowners from foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, George Bush, US Politics, US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  4 min ago | via WLOS 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Federal Regulators Close Two More Banks

  5 min ago | via Z 106.7 Jackson 

  Federal regulators have closed two banks in the West, saying they were undercapitalized due to the poor performance of home mortgage loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Reno Metro, Reno, NV

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  5 min ago | via Examiner.com 

  Jul 26, 2008 10:03 AM By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, AP Newly built homes are offered for sale at the Brookville & Heirloom development by Lennar, in Valencia, Calif.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home Listing, Home