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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

• Area June home sales up; prices down

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Sacramento Bee 

  Capital-area home sales racked up a third straight month of year-over-year gains in June, as closed escrows reached almost a two-year high, DataQuick Information Systems reported today.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Yolo, CA, El Dorado, CA, Sacramento, CA, Sacramento Metro, Placer County, CA

• Golf Beat: Members' initiation fees appear to be lost after course foreclosure

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Sacramento Bee Newspaper 

  Paul Kitagaki Jr./ pkitagaki@sacbee.com Roseville's Kim Welch, the winner of the Golf Channel's "Big Break: Ka'anapali" series, hopes to make the top five on this year's Futures Tour money list and earn 2009 ...

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• Safest, Most Friendly Place to Get a Loan in Placer County

  Jun 23, 2008 | via Auburn Journal 

  Getting approved for and securing a loan can seem like a daunting task. Often times it is confusing and stressful.

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  Related Topix: Placer County, CA, Roseville, CA, Mortgage, Home

• #1 Mortgage Lender in Placer County

  Jun 23, 2008 | via Auburn Journal 

  I had such an amazing experience buying my new home I thought everyone should hear it! I have bought homes in the past and it was confusing, expensive and stressful; so naturally I was a bit wary of buying a ...

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  Related Topix: Placer County, CA, Mortgage, Home, Roseville, CA

• Placer County sees modest home sales ...

  Jun 17, 2008 | via Auburn Journal 

  As the summer buying season gets under way in Placer County, the region saw modest sales gains for the month of May.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Placer County, CA, Auburn, CA, Newcastle, CA, Lincoln, CA

Regional Headlines

• State home sales up 18%

  3 hrs ago | via LA Daily News 

  Home sales across California jumped nearly 18 percent during June compared with a year earlier as discounted foreclosures lured buyers back into the real-estate market, a trade association said Friday.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles Metro, Los Angeles Metro, Housing, California, Real Estate, Foreclosures

• Median home prices fall by 6.1% in county

  4 hrs ago | via Pasadena Star-News 

  Los Angeles County's median home price fell 6.1 percent last month to $396,560 and was off a record 32.3 percent from a year earlier, the California Association of Realtors reported Friday.

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  Related Topix: Los Angeles County, CA, Real Estate, California, San Gabriel, CA, Hacienda Heights, CA

• L.A. home sales up 1.7% in June

  16 hrs ago | via Daily Breeze 

  Home sales rose 1.7 percent in the Los Angeles area in June, compared with the same period a year ago, while the median home price fell 32.3 percent to $396,560, according to figures released today.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Los Angeles Metro, Los Angeles Metro, Housing, California, Orange County Metro

• East West impacted by housing crisis

  17 hrs ago | via San Gabriel Valley Tribune 

  East West Bancorp, Inc. on Friday reported a $25.9 million loss for the second quarter, the bank's first shortfall since 1981.

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  Related Topix: California, Home, Mortgage, Financial Services, IndyMac Bancorp, Banking, East West Bancorp

• Second quarter foreclosures up 121%

  22 hrs ago | via San Jose Business Journal 

  Foreclosure filings were reported on 739,714 U.S. properties during the second quarter, nearly 14 percent up from the previous quarter and 121 percent higher than the year-ago quarter, according to a report ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, California, Stockton Metro, San Bernardino, CA, Bakersfield Metro, Bakersfield, CA

National Headlines

• Senate Passes Housing Rescue Bill, Bush to Sign

  3 min ago | via WCOH-AM Newnan 

  The Congress approved a massive housing market rescue bill on Saturday, offering emergency financing to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, creating a new regulator for the mortgage titans and setting up a $300 billion ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, George Bush

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  5 min ago | via Kndu.com 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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

• Alexander Backs Housing Bill, Which Passes 72-13

  5 min ago | via Chattanoogan.com 

  He said the Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 includes the following provisions: Provides a refundable tax credit of up to $7,500 for first-time homebuyers, and a standard property tax deduction for taxpayers ...

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

• Mike's Blog Roundup

  6 min ago | via Crooks and Liars 

  Years of proxy wars with the USSR created demons that US arrogance thought could never turn and rend it.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Des Moines, IA, Des Moines Metro

• How they voted: Senate roll call on housing bill

  7 min ago | via Alabama Live 

  The 72-13 roll call Saturday by which the Senate passed a bill that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to prevent mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from failing.

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