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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

• Apartment rents in West increase slightly

  Yesterday | via Daily Herald 

  Apartment rents in the western United States are barely climbing -- good news for renters but actually a sign of a weakening economy, according to a new report released Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Stockton Metro, Stockton, CA, San Bernardino County, CA

• Inland rents start to level off, report says

  Yesterday | via The Press-Enterprise 

  After coping with years of strong rent growth, Inland Southern California apartment dwellers are getting relief.

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  Related Topix: California, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, Housing, UC Riverside, University of California System, San Bernardino, CA

• Home sales increase in Inland Empire

  Thursday Jul 17 | via KABC 

  The housing market meltdown that has had a dire impact across Southern California is seeing a turnaround in the Inland Empire.

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  Related Topix: San Bernardino County, CA, Riverside County, CA, Housing, Foreclosures, Home Listing, Home

• Foreclosures, price drops spur area home sales amid recession

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Inland Valley Daily Bulletin 

  On a year-over-year basis, San Bernardino and Riverside counties are the only counties in Southern California seeing an up-tick in home sales, according to a report to be released today.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, San Bernardino County, CA, Riverside County, CA, Housing, Los Angeles Metro

• June gloom: Housing prices drop 29.3%

  Thursday Jul 17 | via San Diego Union-Tribune 

  The median home price in Southern California was down 29.3 percent from a year earlier to $355,000 last month, pushed downward by an unprecedented volume of foreclosure homes selling at a discount, DataQuick ...

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  Related Topix: San Bernardino County, CA, Los Angeles Metro, Orange County, CA, Orange County Metro, Housing, San Diego County, CA

Regional Headlines

• Cash challenged? Cry uncle

  3 hrs ago | via Chicago Tribune 

  Two little-known federal programs may hold the answer for would-be home buyers who don't have money for a down payment or don't have money left after closing to update their properties.

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  Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Home Buying, Home, California, UC Riverside, University of California System, UC San Diego, Mortgage

• Calif. To Be Hit Hard Among Nation's 1 Million Foreclosures

  18 hrs ago | via NBC Channel 11 

  A forecast released Friday has predicted that 1 million homes will be in foreclosure nationwide by the end of the year. 10 comments

  Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Home Listing

• Solar-powered homes give builder an edge

  Yesterday | via Lake Elsinore Valley News 

  Challenged with selling new homes in a tough residential real estate market, Woodside Homes has partnered with solar panel giant SunPower Corp., Southern California Edison and the makers of energy-efficient ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Energy, California, Temecula, CA

• No housing bubble in Canada: Flaherty

  Yesterday | via National Post 

  Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty shrugged off housing worries in Canada Wednesday, saying there is no bubble and that the subprime-mortgage woes crippling financial institutions in the United States are ...

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  Related Topix: Commerce (Texas A&M University System), Texas A&M University System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

• Starbucks closures heaviest in California, Florida, Texas

  Friday | via WNED.org 

  California, Florida and Texas, the U.S. states with the most Starbucks Corp stores, will see the most shuttered as the coffee chain axes more than 600 underperforming outlets in the coming year.

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  Related Topix: Drink, Coffee, Restaurant Management, Starbucks, California, Laguna Beach, CA, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Governor needs to work with Pelosi to save Medi-Cal

  5 min ago | via San Jose Mercury News 

  If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to save health care coverage for poor and disabled Californians, he should get House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the phone - and soon.

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  Related Topix: Elderly, Family, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Opinion

• Loan program may help borrowers in trouble

  6 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  Although it has hundreds of pages and dozens of separate initiatives - including revamping federal oversight of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - the centerpiece is a $300 billion program designed to ...

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

• Editorial: Skeptical eyes on reverse mortgages

  6 min ago | via Star Tribune 

  Swanson, FBI are right to urge caution. Last update: July 19, 2008 - 5:08 PM A NEW MARKET "You have a lot of unemployed mortgage people, brokers, bankers who are in trouble, looking for the next big profit ...

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  Related Topix: Health, AARP, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  7 min ago | via Athens Banner-Herald 

  Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US News, Housing, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• Realtors Get Creative During Summertime Sales Blues

  7 min ago | via Banker & Tradesman 

  Boston-based Charlesgate Realty Group recently had a catered open house for 290 Marlborough St.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Back Bay (Boston, MA), Boston, MA