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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

• Craigs crime scene

  May 1, 2008 | via The Globe and Mail 

  Last week, a 49-year-old Michigan woman pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man on Craigslist to knock off her husband's mistress.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Tacoma Metro, Seattle Metro, Blog News

• Raffenburg, Real Estate to Be Featured on Kajo Talk Show

  Apr 28, 2008 | via KAJO-AM Grants Pass 

  HERE'S A LOOK AT WHAT'S COMING UP ON CARL WILSON'S TALK SHOW HERE ON KAJO. TOMORROW, AT 9:35 A.M., CARL WILL BE JOINED BY JOSEPHINE COUNTY COMMISSIONER JIM RAFFENBURG.

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  Related Topix: Josephine County, OR, Mortgage, Home, Williams, OR

• Caregivers: A Snapshot

  Apr 20, 2008 | via Medford Mail Tribune 

  What is a caregiver? A caregiver can be a relative, partner, friend or neighbor who provides assistance for a person with a chronic or disabling condition.

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  Related Topix: Jackson County, OR, Josephine County, OR, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Parks benefit from foreclosures

  Apr 1, 2008 | via KDRV 

  While the faltering housing market has hurt the economy, the Josephine County Parks Department has benefited.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Josephine County, OR

• County unemployment nears 10 percent

  Mar 27, 2008 | via The News-Review 

  Nearly 1 in 10 workers are unemployed in Douglas County, a level of inactivity in the labor force not seen since 2004.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• Million-dollar properties still in demand in Southern Oregon

  4 hrs ago | via OregonLive.com 

  Million-dollar homes remain in demand in Southern Oregon, though buyers and sellers still worry about home prices and financing, reports this morning's Medford Mail Tribune .

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  Related Topix: Housing, Oregon, Medford, OR, Medford Metro, Real Estate, Jackson County, OR

• Foreclosures in the Portland area and central Oregon top 2002's dot-com drop

  Thursday Jul 17 | via The Oregonian 

  Mortgage defaults in the Portland area and central Oregon rose 97 percent in the first half of 2008, compared with a year ago.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Clackamas, OR, Portland, OR, Oregon, Foreclosures

• 'Green, Green' Redux

  Sep 17, 2007 | via Blogging Real Estate 

  Inside, around and through the Portland Metro area. Monday, September 17, 2007 'Green, Green' Redux Back in March I wrote this about the then new 'green' search filter on the MLS.

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  Related Topix: Oregon, Real Estate

• Don't Panic

  Apr 24, 2007 | via Blogging Real Estate 

  Tuesday, April 24, 2007 DON'T PANIC! Any time I can invoke Arthur Dent, Zaphod Beeblebrox and Marvin the Seriously Depressed Android, I do.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Oregon

• June uptick 'good news, but barely'; Local market faces...

  Friday Jul 11 | via The Bulletin 

  June produced a glimmer of hope for a Bend real estate industry that reached its lowest depths in early 2008, according to a report this week from Bratton Appraisal Group.

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  Related Topix: Oregon, Bend, OR, Housing, Redmond, OR

National Headlines

• Banks sound but economy to take time: Paulson

  7 min ago | via West Linn Tidings 

  The U.S. economy needs months to recover from its slowdown, but the banking system remains sound despite a home mortgage crisis that could cause more problems, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, US News

• Paulson braces public for months of tough times

  3 hrs ago | via The Associated Press 

  Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sought to reassure an anxious public Sunday that the banking system is sound, while also bracing people for more troubled times ahead.

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

• Many Ada County property owners get a break

  9 min ago | via Fort Mill Times 

  More than 1,000 property owners in southwestern Idaho's highly populated Ada County asked for a reduction in assessed property value in an attempt to lower their property taxes.

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  Related Topix: Ada County, ID, Real Estate

• Woes of U.S. credit crisis: lack of regulation?

  10 min ago | via The Hindu 

  "Issuers should only launch products which are easy to understand and easy to measure risk" The developments in the U.S. sub-prime markets or housing mortgage markets have brought to the fore several issues ...

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  Related Topix: Burbank, CA, Chicago (University of Illinois System), University of Illinois System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• One year of the global financial crisis

  10 min ago | via The Hindu 

  It is a little over a year since the U.S. financial crisis became a global issue.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage