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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

• Realtors, Builders Slash Prices to Move Homes

  14 hrs ago | via WJXX 

  Sales of single family homes in May were off 21% when compared to last year as the market is still trying to find its legs.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Jacksonville, FL, Housing

• DeLand's Victoria Park enjoys sales uptick

  Monday Jun 30 | via The Orlando Sentinel 

  Sales in Victoria Park, the big master planned community in DeLand, picked up substantially during the first half of this year, according to developer St.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Jacksonville, FL, Real Estate, St Joe

• Meet the gas gloaters

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Gainesville.com 

  Dan Monteau and Ryan Curtis ride scooters as a way to save money on gas. We've all seen and heard about how sky-high fuel prices have increased the cost of everything from our daily commutes to our weekly ...

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Starke, FL, Keystone Heights, FL, Real Estate, Jacksonville, FL

• Parking planned for downtown

  Friday Jun 27 | via The Florida Times Union 

  A new parking garage appears to be on a faster track to giving The Jacksonville Landing hundreds of parking spaces the city promised more than two decades ago.

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  Related Topix: Jacksonville Metro, Jacksonville, FL, Foreclosures

• Housing grants give families a head start; The road to home...

  Thursday Jun 19 | via KnowledgePlex.org News 

  It was one year ago almost to the day that the Lugos arrived in the Westside. The move followed months of house-hunting heartburn for Ricardo and Caridad, who are raising three kids on a $33,000 income.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Pop/Rock, The Neighborhoods, Jacksonville, FL, Real Estate, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• Drummond Made Its Dorchester Model Larger, Not Smaller

  25 min ago | via The Ledger 

  In today's much-maligned real estate market, the Drummond Co. decided it had to reboot a new model of homes for another phase of the Grasslands Golf and Country Club.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Florida

• Pro Bono Foreclosure Prevention Project

  7 hrs ago | via The Town-Crier Newspaper 

  Pro Bono Foreclosure Prevention Project The Florida Bar Foundation and Florida Legal Services are seeking members of the Real Property Probate and Trust Law Section of the Florida Bar to assist homeowners ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Florida, Royal Palm Beach, FL

• He's Gone Again

  14 hrs ago | via WJHG-TV Panama City 

  Florida's lost more jobs than any other state in the nation and ranks second in foreclosures.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Florida, Florida Government

• Florida

  19 hrs ago | via Daily Business Review 

  Their February outlook had been for recovery to start about a year from now, but a new update says things probably won't begin turning around until the end of 2009.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Florida, Florida Government

• Ruminations

  21 hrs ago | via RiskProf 

  Time Magazine takes a look at Florida ... Greetings from Florida, where the winters are great! Otherwise, there's trouble in paradise.

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

National Headlines

• Lawmaker: Extend mortgage protection for vets

  6 min ago | via MilitaryCity.com 

  Two projects aimee at protecting veterans with adjustable rate mortgages and adjustable hybrid rate mortgages could be extended past the end of this year if Rep.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Life, Veteran Affairs, US Politics, Ginny Brown-Waite, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Foreclosures

• Debt consolidation loans to manage debts easily and intelligently

  2 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  The main reason for such a situation is the high credit card bills, loans, and mortgages, etc.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Adverse Credit Remortgage - Refinance Easily

  3 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  This is done mainly to get a new mortgage for a lower rate of interest from a different lender for a better rate.

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

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  15 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'

  20 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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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home