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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

• Wages lag behind rental rates

  Apr 7, 2008 | via Inman 

  Report: minimum-wage increase not enough to close gaps By Glenn Roberts Jr. , Monday, April 7, 2008.

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

Regional Headlines

• Hawaii developers council discuss state of Hawaii real estate

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via KHNL-TV Honolulu 

  The current state of the economy and cooling real estate market leave people who live here in the islands wondering about the market's future direction.

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  Related Topix: Honolulu Metro, Honolulu, HI, Real Estate, Hawaii

• Mortgage woes blamed for this years' filings

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via Honolulu Star-Bulletin 

  Bankruptcies are on the rise in Hawaii, due mostly to a higher percentage of filings related to real estate problems.

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  Related Topix: Honolulu Metro, Honolulu, HI, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Hawaii

• UPI NewsTrack Business

  Saturday Jun 28 | via Daily India 

  Hawaii requires solar water heaters HONOLULU, June 28 -- Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle says the state has moved closer to energy independence by requiring solar water heaters in all new home construction.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Home, Hawaii Government, Hawaii, Mortgage

• Hawaii requires new homes to have solar water heaters, trying to cut fossil fuel imports

  Friday Jun 27 | via PR-inside.com 

  Hawaii, which relies heavily on imported fossil fuels, has become the first U.S. state to require solar water heaters in new homes, pleasing environmentalists but frustrating residents upset with the island ...

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  Related Topix: Hawaii, Hawaii Government, Housing

• Governor Lingle releases funds to assist Habitat for Humanity

  Monday Jun 23 | via KHNL-TV Honolulu 

  Fifteen island families will be getting some much needed help on the home front.

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  Related Topix: Hawaii, Hawaii Government, Mortgage, Home

National Headlines

• Lawmaker: Extend mortgage protection for vets

  7 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

  16 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'

  21 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