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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

Regional Headlines

• Mayor delivers keynote address at state clean water convention

  3 hrs ago | via Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter 

  Mayor Kevin Crawford's keynote address on Thursday at a Wisconsin Alliance of Cities convention "Clean Water: From Politics to Policy" framed the issues surrounding clean water mandates handed to municipalities ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Manitowoc, WI, Wisconsin Government, Wisconsin, Agriculture, Science

• Janesville recognized for affordable housing

  Yesterday | via The Janesville Gazette - Janesville, Wisconsin 

  The city was ranked 16th in affordable housing. With a median home price of $124,700, Janesville was the only Wisconsin community to make the housing list.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Wisconsin, Real Estate

• Planned bill targets Wisconsin Supreme Court decision on lawsuits by homebuyers

  Monday Jul 21 | via Wisconsin State Journal 

  State lawmakers say they plan to introduce legislation next year that would reverse a state Supreme Court decision blocking home buyers from suing sellers for punitive damages when they lie about the condition ...

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Middleton, WI, Juneau, WI, Wisconsin, Real Estate

• Planning for the future

  Thursday Jul 10 | via The Daily Press 

  Senior citizens on fixed incomes aren't going to be surprised by the results of a report released this week that shows it is increasingly difficult to make ends meet.

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  Related Topix: Bayfield, WI, Ashland, WI, Wisconsin, Social Security, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Opinion

• Buyers lose recourse in frauds

  Sunday Jul 6 | via Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal 

  Home buyers who believe a seller has lied to them cannot sue for fraud to recover damages, a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court said Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Wisconsin, Real Estate, Brookfield, WI, Milwaukee Metro, Milwaukee Metro

National Headlines

• Existing Home Sales Drop Again

  14 min ago | via On Wall Street 

  June proved to be a pretty hot month, but not in the housing market. The latest figure from the National Association of Realtors shows that existing home sales in June fell, as did the median price of a home.

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

• Stock market outlook mixed

  14 min ago | via The Toronto Star 

  Overseas stock markets were gloomy but Wall Street index futures pointed to a modest recovery Friday from the previous session's sharp losses.

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  Related Topix: Housing, New Brunswick, Canada, Canada, Woodstock Area, NB, Juniper, NB, York (Toronto, ON), Ontario, Toronto, ON

• John Edwards in town

  15 min ago | via Off the Kuff 

  Former Senator and Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards was in town this week to promote his anti-poverty agenda.

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  Related Topix: North Carolina, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, John Edwards, 2008 Presidential Election

• U.S. 2Q foreclosure filings more than double 8:28 Am CT

  16 min ago | via Denton Record-Chronicle 

  The number of households facing the foreclosure process more than doubled in the second quarter compared to a year ago, according to data released Friday.

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  Related Topix: Irvine, CA, Housing, Foreclosures, Stockton, CA, Stockton Metro

• Federal Bill Will Provide Incentive To 2nd Lienholders To Allow Refinance

  16 min ago | via The Real Estate Bloggers 

  While I am still not thrilled with the 300 billion dollar housing bill working it's way through Congress, they did insert some logic into the process.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage