Chattanooga Real Estate

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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

• Condo builder bucks market

  5 hrs ago | via The Tennessean 

  The last few years haven't been kind to condominium projects, but that hasn't deterred Brian Kemp.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Marketing

• Where Home Sellers Can Find Security and Save Money

  Thursday | via Jackson Star News 

  The headlines coming out of today's real estate market are enough to give any homeowner pause - but especially hard hit have been home sellers.

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  Related Topix: Chattanooga, TN Metro, Real Estate, Home, Home Selling, Home Listing, Housing

• Single-family home building slows in June to worst pace since 1991

  Thursday | via Detnews.com - Business 

  WASHINGTON -- Construction of single-family homes fell in June to the slowest pace in 17 years although a change in New York laws helped give a big boost to apartment building.

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• Real Estate Brokers Expect VW Plant To Boost Home Sales

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via WTVC Chattanooga 

  This Volkswagen VICTORY comes at a perfect time with the economy turning worse on many fronts.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Chattanooga, TN, Ooltewah, TN

• Lack of advertising may have shut down fast-food restaurant

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via The Beaumont Enterprise 

  A lack of local advertising could have forced Southeast Texas' only Krystal location to close earlier this week.

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  Related Topix: Small Business, Texas State University System, Personal Finance, Lamar University (Texas State University System), Chattanooga, TN, Real Estate, Life, Food, Fast Food

Regional Headlines

• More

  Yesterday | via The Daily News Journal 

  Unemployment in Tennessee edged up by one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.5 percent in June compared to a month earlier, keeping the jobless rate here a full percentage point higher than the nation's rate.

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  Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law, Tennessee Government, Tennessee, Knoxville (University of Tennessee System), University of Tennessee System, Home, Mortgage

• First Horizon stock climbs after replacing CEO

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via The Tennessean 

  Memphis-based First Horizon National Corp., the parent company of First Tennessee, saw its stock soar in trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange after announcing it would replace its chief executive ...

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  Related Topix: Tennessee, Mortgage, Home

• First Horizon CEO to step down

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via The Knoxville News-Sentinel 

  Hours after the company's stock plunged by nearly 25 percent, First Horizon National Corp.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Tennessee

• Here's A Roundup Of The Progressive Blogs In Tennessee

  Monday Jul 14 | via SharonCobb 

  We blogs run from one end of the State of Tennessee to the other, and we're all working hard to turn our red state blue, so please support all of us.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, John McCain, US News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Tennessee

• Agency works to help house Tennesseans

  Monday Jul 14 | via The Tennessean 

  Much of the focus by elected officials and the media during the housing crisis in our country has focused on the mortgage industry and homeowners and buyers.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Tennessee, Tennessee Government

National Headlines

• Economy needs stability before regulation

  2 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

  4 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

  5 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