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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

• ARNOLD: McCaskill to sponsor foreclosure clinic

  Jun 10, 2008 | via Wentzville Journal 

  With nearly 20,000 Missourians expected to lose their homes by the end of 2009, U.S. Sen. 9 comments

  Related Topix: Jefferson County, MO, Arnold, MO, US Politics, US News, Claire McCaskill, US Senate, Democrat, Foreclosures

• Cedar Hill: Flood buyouts to proceed

  May 27, 2008 | via Wentzville Journal 

  Although Tom Lyons' home in Stovesand Subdivision in Cedar Hill didn't fare as bad in the flood waters as his neighbors' homes, he will still be moving out of harm's way.

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  Related Topix: Cedar Hill, MO, FEMA, US News, Home, Mortgage

• St. Louis Real Estate-Market Watch April 20th, 2008

  Apr 20, 2008 | via St. Louis Real Estate Voice 

  St. Louis Real Estate Market Watch by Art Wagner @ Keller Williams Realty Southwest, Sunset Hills, Mo.

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  Related Topix: Sunset Hills, MO, Real Estate, Jefferson County, MO

Regional Headlines

• Matthew Wilson Learns His Fate

  16 hrs ago | via MyFox St. Louis 

  Matthew Wilson convicted of restraining, robbing and sexually abusing a real estate agent last year in St.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Missouri

• Springfield hosts Missouri Association of REALTORS® meeting

  Thursday | via Springfield News Leader 

  REALTORS from all over Missouri traveled to Springfield for the Missouri Association of REALTORS Quarterly Business Conference June 24 through June 26.

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  Related Topix: University of Illinois System, Springfield Metro, Springfield, MO, Springfield (University of Illinois System), Missouri, Real Estate, Foreclosures

• Mortgage Meltdown

  Monday Jul 14 | via KMIZ 

  Mortgage buyers Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are still working to escape the fate fellow lender IndyMac suffered Friday.

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

• Belgian brewer InBev to buy Anheuser-Busch for $52B

  Monday Jul 14 | via Earthlink 

  User Sign In Sign in now to: Personalize the content, colors, and layout of your page Choose news headlines, stock quotes, and the weather in your neighborhood Display all the links and information you need in ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Missouri, The College of New Jersey, The College of Wooster

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Missouri Storm Victims

  Monday Jun 30 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to seven storm-ravaged counties in Missouri and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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

National Headlines

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  14 min ago | via Bubble Meter 

  Many culprits have been fingered for the housing crisis we're in today: unscrupulous mortgage lenders, dishonest borrowers, underregulated financial institutions.

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  Related Topix: UC San Francisco, University of California System, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• House prices 'will keep falling'

  18 min ago | via BBC 

  House prices in the UK and the US are likely to fall for another two years, the chairman of one of the world's most powerful banks has warned.

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• Failures of big banks fan fears of Staten Islanders

  22 min ago | via Pennlive.com 

  Fannie Mae headquarters in Washington, D.C. The collapse of a major national bank and growing talk of government bailouts of other financial institutions on the brink have Staten Islanders wondering if their ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Deposit, NY

• Suburbs, A Dream Too Real To Live?

  23 min ago | via The Ledger 

  Published: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 7:20 a.m. As the housing market implodes and financial institutions struggle, a difficult but necessary societal ...

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  Related Topix: Medicine, Alcoholism, Health, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Another sign

  23 min ago | via Brains and Eggs 

  "A taxpayer voting Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders." A number of drivers on Twin City Highway Thursday might have seen this message on the sign in front of Bob Costilow Realtors.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, African-American, Mandeville, LA, Home, Home Selling, Home Listing