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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

• Real estate sales down 50 pe...

  8 hrs ago | via The Aspen Times 

  The Pitkin County real estate market report card for the first half of 2008 was as bad as expected.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Pitkin County, CO, Snowmass, CO, Aspen, CO, Snowmass Village, CO, Housing

• Real estate sales fall 50 percent

  16 hrs ago | via The Aspen Times 

  The Pitkin County real estate market's first-half report card was released Thursday and was as bad as expected.

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  Related Topix: Pitkin County, CO, Real Estate, Aspen, CO

• Housing office getting tougher on fraud

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Aspen Daily News 

  It is soon going to be harder to lie to the housing office about how much money you have.

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  Related Topix: Life, Holidays, Lughnasadh, Pitkin County, CO, Aspen, CO, Home, Mortgage

• A New and Growing Vacation Ownership Option

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via The Richfield Reaper 

  The downturn in the real estate market has caused many people to forgo the purchase of a second home.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Travel

• Aspen housing office steps up effort to reduce fraud

  Monday Jul 21 | via The Aspen Times 

  Applicants for Aspen's worker housing will soon face stiffer requirements as the Aspen/Pitkin County Housing Authority steps up its efforts to detect abuses of the system.

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  Related Topix: Pitkin County, CO, Aspen, CO, Mortgage, Home

Regional Headlines

• GRIEGO: Mortgage crisis finally hits home

  Yesterday | via Rocky Mountain News 

  GRIEGO: Mortgage crisis finally hits home By Tina Griego , Rocky Mountain News Thursday, July 24, 2008 The county assessor lists the house as 11/2 stories, three bedrooms, two baths, built in 1907 and purchased ...

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

• Foreclosures slam the door on some family pets

  Yesterday | via 9NEWS 

  VIEW SLIDESHOW DENVER - As families continue to lose their homes to foreclosure in Colorado, family pets are also suffering the consequences of these tough times.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Denver Metro, Colorado, Denver Metro

• Hard sale for resorts

  Monday Jul 21 | via Denver Post 

  They started small. A one-bedroom condo in East Vail. That quickly doubled in value, so Ted and Connie Fullhart stepped up to a duplex in the tony Singletree community in Edwards.

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  Related Topix: Edwards, CO, Telluride, CO, Breckenridge, CO, Real Estate, Colorado, University of Colorado System

• Officials mull aid to help people pay their utility bills

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Rocky Mountain News 

  Cherise Smith, with daughter, Desiree, 8, by her side, is facing a power shut-off. Gov.

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  Related Topix: University of Colorado System, Foreclosures, Colorado, Colorado Government, Xcel Energy, Energy

• Grand Junction economy shows symptoms of national slump

  Monday Jul 14 | via Grand Junction Free Press 

  An economic malaise that has spread throughout the country and rekindled fears of a recession seems to have been unable to penetrate the region's Teflon-like safety barrier provided by the oil and natural gas ...

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  Related Topix: Colorado, Colorado College, Colorado Government, Real Estate

National Headlines

• Washington Mutual Bond Risk Rises as Credit-Default Swaps Climb to Record

  1 min ago | via Bloomberg Business News 

  The cost to protect Washington Mutual Inc. bonds from default rose for a third day to a record amid concern that the biggest U.S. savings and loan won't be able to weather the worst housing crisis since the ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Stamford, CT, Stamford Metro, New Haven Metro, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

• Foreclosure Filings More Than Double

  1 min ago | via KNBC Los Angeles Channel 4 

  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, Stockton Metro, Stockton, CA, Housing, Foreclosures

• Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday

  1 min ago | via WAND-TV Decatur 

  The Senate has cleared the last hurdle to passing a massive housing rescue bill.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, George Bush, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Michigan ranks 7th in foreclosures

  3 min ago | via MLive.com 

  Michigan ranked seventh in the country in foreclosures during the second quarter of this year, according to data released July 25 by RealtyTrac.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Stockton, CA, Stockton Metro

• More people are out of work than expected this month

  4 min ago | via WBIR-TV Knoxville 

  A domino effect on Wall Street. A down day triggered by dismal earnings posted by Ford, a steep drop in existing home sales, and a spike in jobless claims.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Housing, Ford, Mortgage