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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

• The REAL tragic toll of housing nightmare

  Saturday Jun 28 | via NY Daily News 

  Peter Rollison stands in front of his home on 146th St., Jamaica, Queens. It used to be better, he said.

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  Related Topix: Jamaica, NY, Queens, NY, New York, NY, Housing, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• N.Y. Courts Create Program to Ease Foreclosures

  Wednesday Jun 18 | via 1010Wins 

  New York state's chief judge says ``crisis'' numbers of mortgage foreclosures have prompted the court system to create a program to try to save homes -- or at least reduce the time, expense and loss involved in ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Queens County, NY

• Court program to ease foreclos.....

  Wednesday Jun 18 | via Observer 

  New York state's chief judge says - - crisis'' numbers of mortgage foreclosures have prompted the court system to create a program to try to save homes - or at least reduce the time, expense and loss involved ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Queens County, NY

• NY courts create program to ease foreclosures

  Wednesday Jun 18 | via WCAX-TV Burlington 

  New York state's chief judge says "crisis" numbers of mortgage foreclosures have prompted the court system to create a program to try to save homes - or at least reduce the time, expense and loss involved in ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Queens County, NY

• Women developers building legacy in Westchester

  Jun 8, 2008 | via The Patent Trader 

  By Allan Drury The Journal News * June 9, 2008 Shortly after telling her boss, developer Martin Ginsburg, that she was leaving her job to start her own company, Susan Newman realized that one of the Ginsburg ...

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  Related Topix: Yonkers, NY, Dobbs Ferry, NY, Real Estate, Jamaica, NY, Queens, NY, New York, NY, New Rochelle, NY

Regional Headlines

• Bad economy means good business for repo men

  Yesterday | via Thehour.com 

  BRIDGEPORTAssociated PressThis is what it looks like when a gilded age turns to brass: the boats, motor homes and expensive cars bought during the good times are turned over to the repo men in favor of paying ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, New York Government, New York, Connecticut, Connecticut Government, Foreclosures

• Buffalo area tops for job growth

  Yesterday | via Buffalo News 

  Where was the New York State metro area with the hottest job growth in June? Would you believe Buffalo Niagara? While the region's job market was more tepid than scorching hot, the area still managed to add ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, New York, State University of New York System, Buffalo, NY, Buffalo Metro, Buffalo (State University of New York System), Allegany County, NY

• Politics is Everyone's Business

  Yesterday | via Rome Observer 

  The empire strikes back Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos is flanked by Deputy Majority Leader Thomas Libous, R-52 Binghamton and Senator Joseph Griffo, R-47. Griffo invited his fellow Republicans to tour the ...

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  Related Topix: State University of New York System, Binghamton (State University of New York System), Home, Mortgage, New York, Oneida County, NY, Madison County, NY

• Your News Dissector Goes To Washington: NACA Helping Home Owners Big Time

  Yesterday | via News Dissector's Weblog 

  I arrived in our super hot Capital City to attend NACA's anti-foreclosure event at the Capital Hilton.

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  Related Topix: Washington Post, Publishing, World News, Ethiopia, Africa, New York, Foreclosures

• Economic role reversal

  Yesterday | via The Telegraph 

  German broker Dirk Mueller at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. Washington, July 17: The global slowdown stemming in part from the deepening US financial crisis is hitting the world's richest nations the hardest ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing, New York, York (Pennsylvania State University System)

National Headlines

• Lawmaker: Extend mortgage protection for vets

  8 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

  17 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'

  22 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