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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

• Foreclosure rates here lower than many areas

  Yesterday | via San Marcos Daily Record 

  Properties scheduled for foreclosure in August continued their climb in most Central Texas counties tracked by Foreclosure Listing Service, Inc., but Hays fared better than several.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Travis County, TX, Hays, TX, Williamson County, TX, Austin, TX, Austin Metro

• City of Killeen now one of the fastest growing cities in the state and country

  Thursday Jul 10 | via KCEN 

  Updated: Jul 10, 2008 7:39pm The city of Killeen now has the bragging rights of being the second fastest growing city in Texas according to the census bureau.

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  Related Topix: Killeen, TX, Killeen Metro, Texas, Fort Hood, TX, Commerce, TX, Housing

• Austin Area Foreclosures Rising

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Housing Doom 

  While " all real estate is local ", some problems are popping up all over. In spite of its reputation as one of the nation's "better" housing markets, foreclosures are reaching new heights in Austin, TX: In ...

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  Related Topix: Austin, TX, Travis County, TX, Foreclosures, Williamson County, TX

• Foreclosure data reveal troubling trend

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Austin American-Statesman 

  In more evidence that the national housing troubles are hitting Central Texas, one of every 133 homes in Travis County was posted for foreclosure in the first six months of the year - compared with one in 265 ...

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  Related Topix: Williamson County, TX, Travis County, TX, Foreclosures

• Local banks multiply with projections about increases in population and income

  Saturday Jul 5 | via Killeen Daily Herald 

  Herald/DAVID MORRIS Community members and bank employees gather beneath a tent as they celebrate the 20-year anniversary of First Community Mortgage, a division of First National Bank Texas, on Wednesday in ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Killeen Metro, Killeen, TX

Regional Headlines

• Gang behind Dallas-Fort Worth home invasions built empire on force, strategy

  14 hrs ago | via Quick 

  They were the Renaissance men of crime, a mixture of white-collar cunning and blue-collar ruthless violence.

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  Related Topix: Fort Worth, TX, Rockwall, TX, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Texas, Denton, TX, Home, Mortgage

• Schnurman: North Texas housing market is still troubled

  18 hrs ago | via Fort Worth Star-Telegram 

  We averted one crisis last week, after the government pledged to keep the mortgage money flowing at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Dallas (University of Texas System), Dallas Metro, University of Texas System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Steps to ease housing crisis

  Yesterday | via Houston Community Newspapers Online 

  The housing crisis is eroding the confidence of our nation's homeowners, financial institutions, and investors at an accelerating rate.

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

• Local banking experts say Texas banks are stable

  Yesterday | via News 8 Austin 

  For Banker Bill Lemens, regular check-ups from customers came following the recent failure of California-based IndyMac bank.

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  Related Topix: Texas, Mortgage, Home

• Baylor University Study Shows Depressed Housing Market Demands Change in Lead Generation Techniques

  Friday | via Earth Times 

  WACO, Texas, July 18 Baylor-housing-study WACO, Texas , /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A down housing market calls on real estate agents to change their tactics, according to Dr.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Texas, Marketing, Baylor University, Real Estate

National Headlines

• Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update...

  12 hrs ago | via KXMB-TV Bismarck 

  Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update KABUL, Afghanistan Barack Obama says the United States, NATO and Afghanistan must do more to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida. Among other things, the ...

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  Related Topix: World News, Kabol, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Asia, Home, Mortgage, Weather, Junction City, CA

• Brown pledges aid to Palestinians, calls for settlement freeze

  12 min ago | via The Daily Star 

  OCCUPIED BETHLEHEM: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday pledged new aid to the Palestinians and called for a freeze on Israeli settlement building to bolster the Middle East peace process.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East, Israel

• Words from the

  16 min ago | via Safehaven 

  "The end is neigh" was what many despondent investors were starting to believe as the past week kicked off with volatile trading amid concerns that US regional bank IndyMac's demise was a harbinger of many more ...

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  Related Topix: Freddie Mac, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Treasury Chief Sees 'Months' of Hard Times

  20 min ago | via ABC News 

  The Associated Press 2 comments 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 Treasury Secretary: Economic Fundamentals are Sound

  22 min ago | via Voice of America 

  The Bush administration says the U.S. economy will continue to experience slow growth in the months ahead, but is fundamentally sound.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Washington, DC, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance