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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: Signs of the times

  Thursday | via LancasterOnline 

  "It's another day of the week for open houses," Wiley says. "It's the idea of breaking away from the S ... 1 of 2 It looks like Weichert Realtors-Engle & Hambright is avoiding the worst of America's current ...

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  Related Topix: Lancaster Metro, Lancaster, PA, Lancaster County, PA, Real Estate, Lititz, PA

• Mortgage broker will appeal sentence

  Thursday Jul 17 | via LancasterOnline 

  A mortgage broker recently sentenced to more than 12 years in state prison for perpetrating a scam that affected more than 800 Pennsylvanians, including many in Lancaster County, has appealed his sentence.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, State Prisons

• It seems that people who didn't put any money down were not as...

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via The York Daily Record 

  The Realtors Association of York and Adams Counties expects to see a decrease in membership as lagging home sales continue to challenge the local real estate market.

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  Related Topix: York, PA, York Metro, Housing, York County, PA, Real Estate, Lancaster County, PA

• Home sales moderate in county

  Sunday Jul 13 | via LancasterOnline 

  Home sales moderate in county By TIM MEKEEL, Staff 2008-07-02 14:22:00 Lancaster New Era The bleeding has slowed.

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  Related Topix: Lancaster County, PA, Housing, Lancaster Metro, Lancaster, PA, University of South Carolina System

• Ex-Reading broker gets 12 years in $29M mortgage scam

  Thursday Jul 3 | via InYork 

  HARRISBURG -- A former mortgage broker sentenced to federal prison Wednesday blamed his poor business acumen for causing hundreds of Pennsylvania homeowners and investors to lose more than $29 million in what ...

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Lancaster County, PA, Berks County, PA

Regional Headlines

• Senators find Pittsburgh casino is in dire shape

  19 hrs ago | via Luminary 

  State senators asking questions Thursday about the rescue of a financially troubled Pittsburgh casino project by other investors found the situation more complicated and dire than they originally thought.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Mortgage, Home

• Regional economy shows improvement

  Wednesday | via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

  Despite weaknesses in parts of the housing and retail sectors, the economy in the Federal Reserve's Fourth District, which includes Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and parts of Kentucky and West Virginia, improved ...

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Mortgage, Home

• Economic Watchdog, July 21

  Monday Jul 21 | via Optionetics 

  The economy might take a backseat to earnings news this week, but there still are several reports that could impact trading.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Pennsylvania, Financial Markets, Home Selling, Housing

• Dundee Homeowners Choose To Auction House

  Sunday Jul 20 | via KETV 

  Some Omaha homeowners are waiting months to sell their homes, but a family in Dundee intends to sell their in an instant.

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

• State Capitol Roundup for July 18

  Friday Jul 18 | via Tony Phyrillas 

  I thought the Legislature was on its 2-month summer vacation, but it appears some lawmakers are still in Harrisburg.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• U.S. Congress passes mortgage aid for 400,000 struggling homeowners

  1 min ago | via Penticton Herald 

  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

• FDIC closes First Heritage Bank

  1 min ago | via Taipei Times 

  WILD WEST: The 28 bank branches in Nevada, Arizona and California will reopen as Mutual of Omaha Bank branches X with the full amount of deposits insured AP, CARSON CITY, NEVADA Sunday, Jul 27, 2008, Page 11 ...

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  Related Topix: Scottsdale, AZ, Foreclosures, Arizona, Arizona Government

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  1 min ago | via My West Texas 

  Congress passed the most significant housing legislation in decades Saturday, offering help to struggling homeowners and seeking to stabilize a troubled housing market that has dragged down the economy.

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

• Congress passes housing rescue bill

  1 min ago | via KATU-TV Portland 

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

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

• Building wealth : Not yet time to relax

  2 min ago | via The New Zealand Herald 

  Many homeowners and potential buyers may have thought they could breathe a sigh of relief after the Reserve Bank cut the official cash rate last week for the first time in five years.

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  Related Topix: Oceania, New Zealand, World News, Mortgage, Home