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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

• Tuesday's Events: U.S. Producer Prices, Fed's Kohn, Cdn Wholesales

  May 20, 2008 | via Mortgage News Daily 

  At 7:45 a.m. EDT, ICSC will release chain store sales for the week ending May 17.

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  Related Topix: Cambridge, MD, US Travel, Travel, Home, Mortgage, Events

• Future Of Historic Building In Cambridge Is In Question After Fire

  May 15, 2008 | via WMDT-TV Salisbury 

  A four-alarm fire ripped through an historic Cambridge building over the weekend.

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  Related Topix: Cambridge, MD, Real Estate

• Living with the crab

  Apr 28, 2008 | via Baltimore Sun 

  For more than a century, the blue crab has sustained life on this marshy sliver of land between the Chesapeake Bay and the Honga River. 55 comments

  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Life, Food, Seafood, Dorchester County, MD, Agriculture, Science

Regional Headlines

• An economic prescription

  Thursday | via Baltimore Sun 

  Reading recent headlines, it might be easy to conclude that the economy is in a death spiral. 16 comments

  Related Topix: Maryland Government, Maryland, Weather, Housing, Opinion

• Mediation Is Next To Save Homes

  Wednesday | via The Washington Post 

  Judge Joan Zeldon told prosecutors and lenders to work with homeowners. COMMENT Discussion Policy Discussion Policy CLOSE By Keith L. Alexander Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 17, 2008; Page B02 A ...

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  Related Topix: Washington Post, Publishing, Maryland, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Home inspectors take a hit

  Monday Jul 14 | via Baltimore Business Journal 

  Home inspector Kevin Moore couldn't meet the demand of a booming real estate market between 2003 and 2006 -- business he'd like to have another shot at.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Maryland, Housing, Real Estate

• David Nitkin on state politics issues

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Baltimore Sun 

  Energy rates Diane, Arnold: How long before the [Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.] rate hike and the surging gas prices take a serious toll on the [Maryland] economy as reflected in cost of living ...

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  Related Topix: Arnold, MD, Home, Mortgage, Annapolis, MD, Maryland

• Living in century-old house has features, quirks

  Friday Jul 11 | via The Independent 

  Our house is more than 100 years old, having been built by a farm family at the turn of the last century.

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  Related Topix: Maryland, Waldorf, MD, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Economy needs stability before regulation

  4 min ago | via The Herald 

  Economy needs stability before regulation By David Ignatius WASHINGTON -- Henry Paulson was in shirt sleeves Thursday afternoon in his office at the Treasury Department, tie loose at the collar, feet propped up ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Freddie Mac files with Us Sec, first step to capital

  7 min ago | via ABS-CBN News 

  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK - Freddie Mac won approval from regulators on Friday to sell the stock needed to overcome mounting losses, and the Wall Street Journal said the mortgage finance company may seek $10 billion.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae

• Earnings Outlook: Bank of America heads parade firms aiming to show turnaround

  1 hr ago | via MarketWatch 

  Is it turnaround time for banks? Bank of America Corp. BAC , , ) tops the list of major U.S. financial firms reporting earnings next week, and investors will be looking to see if the nation's second-largest ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Banking, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase , Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

• Rental market not benefitting from mortgage turmoil in Valley

  3 hrs ago | via Atwater Signal 

  Record numbers of Valley families may be losing their homes to foreclosure, but they apparently are not moving into vacant apartments.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Merced County, CA, Foreclosures, Stanislaus County, CA, San Joaquin County, CA

• Welcoming foreclosure

  8 min ago | via Dispatch.com 

  Ralph Stover has good credit and a steady job. But he took out a risky interest-only first mortgage and a second mortgage to buy a new 1,900-square-foot condominium in 2003 with no money down.

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