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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

• He who laughs last ...

  9 hrs ago | via Baltimore Examiner 

  Jul 20, 2008 12:00 AM by Len Lazarick , The Examiner Peter Franchot is Maryland's comptroller In the hallway leading to his private bathroom in the Treasury Building, Peter Franchot has a framed April 2006 ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Anne Arundel County, MD, Annapolis, MD, Silver Spring, MD

• For skinny houses, a chilly reception

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Baltimore Sun 

  It looks almost like an average-size house that's been sliced in half. At 12 feet wide, the neat, new single-family home is squeezed onto the slenderest of strips of land on a Brooklyn Park street of modest, ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Baltimore County, MD, Arnold, MD, Anne Arundel County, MD, Brooklyn Park, MD

• County home sales fall 29 percent in June

  Sunday Jul 13 | via The Capital 

  Consumers, hesitant in a weakening economy, held back on buying homes again last month, continuing a trend that has taken shape this year.

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  Related Topix: Metropolitan College of New York, Parole, MD, Anne Arundel County, MD, Housing, Home Listing, Home

• Editor's Notebook

  Friday Jul 11 | via The Capital 

  The nationwide decline in home sales is being keenly felt in Anne Arundel County.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Anne Arundel County, MD, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Real Estate

• Check your target area's home glut

  Friday Jul 11 | via The Baltimore Sun 

  If you're a would-be buyer, you'll probably want to know that, too. The more homes sitting on the market, the harder it is for homeowners to sell and the easier it is for buyers to make a deal, all else being ... 1 comment

  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Somerset County, MD, Real Estate

Regional Headlines

• An economic prescription

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Baltimore Sun 

  Reading recent headlines, it might be easy to conclude that the economy is in a death spiral. 21 comments

  Related Topix: Maryland Government, Maryland, Weather, Housing, Opinion

• Mediation Is Next To Save Homes

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via The Washington Post 

  Judge Joan Zeldon told prosecutors and lenders to work with homeowners. COMMENT Discussion Policy Discussion Policy CLOSE By Keith L. Alexander Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, July 17, 2008; Page B02 A ...

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  Related Topix: Washington Post, Publishing, Maryland, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Home inspectors take a hit

  Monday Jul 14 | via Baltimore Business Journal 

  Home inspector Kevin Moore couldn't meet the demand of a booming real estate market between 2003 and 2006 -- business he'd like to have another shot at.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Maryland, Housing, Real Estate

• David Nitkin on state politics issues

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Baltimore Sun 

  Energy rates Diane, Arnold: How long before the [Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.] rate hike and the surging gas prices take a serious toll on the [Maryland] economy as reflected in cost of living ...

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  Related Topix: Arnold, MD, Home, Mortgage, Annapolis, MD, Maryland

• Living in century-old house has features, quirks

  Friday Jul 11 | via The Independent 

  Our house is more than 100 years old, having been built by a farm family at the turn of the last century.

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  Related Topix: Maryland, Waldorf, MD, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Many Ada County property owners get a break

  1 min ago | via Fort Mill Times 

  More than 1,000 property owners in southwestern Idaho's highly populated Ada County asked for a reduction in assessed property value in an attempt to lower their property taxes.

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  Related Topix: Ada County, ID, Real Estate

• Woes of U.S. credit crisis: lack of regulation?

  2 min ago | via The Hindu 

  "Issuers should only launch products which are easy to understand and easy to measure risk" The developments in the U.S. sub-prime markets or housing mortgage markets have brought to the fore several issues ...

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  Related Topix: Burbank, CA, Chicago (University of Illinois System), University of Illinois System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• One year of the global financial crisis

  2 min ago | via The Hindu 

  It is a little over a year since the U.S. financial crisis became a global issue.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Banks sound but economy to take time: Paulson

  4 min ago | via Portland Tribune 

  The U.S. economy needs months to recover from its slowdown, but the banking system remains sound despite a home mortgage crisis that could cause more problems, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US News

• Paulson braces public for months of tough times

  5 min ago | via The Post-Star 

  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 Politics, US News, Home Listing, 2008 Presidential Election