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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

• Fraud Seen Playing Large Role in Loan Contract Breaches

  Friday Jun 20 | via National Mortgage News 

  Risk mitigation firm Digital Risk LLC, Maitland, Fla., has found 50% to 60% of the subprime and alternative-A mortgages from the last few years that it has examined due to contract breaches contain significant ...

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  Related Topix: Maitland, FL, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Industrial real-estate market looks to be stabilizing in orlando-area

  Friday Jun 20 | via The Orlando Sentinel 

  More encouraging news for the local real-estate market: Preliminary numbers for Orlando's industrial segment show that the amount of available space dipped by 600,000 square feet during the second quarter.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Orlando Metro, Orlando, FL, Orange County, FL, Seminole County, FL

• Grass is often greener, taller when other side of fence is foreclosed

  Jun 8, 2008 | via The Orlando Sentinel 

  Droughts are good for one thing. They help hide the empty homes. Now summer rains are rejuvenating dried lawns. 94 comments

  Related Topix: Orlando, FL, Holden Heights, FL, Orange County, FL, Foreclosures

• Learn about buying houses

  Jun 5, 2008 | via Florida Today 

  Consumers thinking about buying a house can get help Saturday at the 2008 Homebuyer Expo in Orlando.

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  Related Topix: Orlando, FL, Orange County, FL, Home Buying, Home, Brevard County, FL

• Having your condo cake - and eating it

  Jun 2, 2008 | via The Condo Metropolis Blog 

  One of the biggest disappointments with second home ownership comes from investors making a fairly simple mistake.

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  Related Topix: Orange County, FL, Orlando, FL, Orlando Metro, Housing

Regional Headlines

• Foreclosures Will Moderate as Home Prices Continue to Fall

  4 hrs ago | via Seeking Alpha 

  There will come a time when most of the homeowners that intend to walk away from their mortgages have done so.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Construction, Toll Brothers, Florida

• Housing headaches: California and Florida still top foreclosure list

  15 hrs ago | via KansasCity.com 

  California and Florida cities continue to account for most of the nation’s foreclosure activity, according to the monthly RealtyTrac report that monitors 230 metropolitan areas.RealtyTrac reported in its ...

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  Related Topix: University of California System, UC Merced, Cape Coral, FL, Fort Myers, FL, Miami Metro, Florida, Foreclosures

• Crist should stay away until news improves

  19 hrs ago | via Palm Beach Post 

  If I were Charlie Crist, I'd extend my stay in Europe. Our governor, in case you didn't know it, has been leading a group of 90 business and government officials on a European trade mission to England, France, ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Florida, Florida Government

• Drummond Made Its Dorchester Model Larger, Not Smaller

  23 hrs 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

  Yesterday | 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

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

  11 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