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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
Mass. Home Prices Take Nose Dive
May 27, 2008 | via TheBostonChannel
As home prices continue to fall sharply in Massachusetts, the decline in the number of homes sold is easing, according to a new report.
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Related Topix: Housing, Home Listing, Home, Real Estate
Dacia Street on board as next Hub fixer-upper
May 10, 2008 | via Boston Herald
M ayor Thomas M. Menino 's administration is tracking foreclosures across the city and this week will deploy blight-fighting city workers to a Dorchester neighborhood as part of an innovative campaign to rescue ...
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Related Topix: Suffolk County, MA, Dorchester, MA, Foreclosures, Boston, MA
Facing eviction, Dorchester tenants get breathing room
Apr 15, 2008 | via Boston Herald
C ity officials announced last night that a tenant eviction scheduled for this morning at a foreclosed Dorchester property has been called off indefinitely, giving relief to nervous renters there.
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Related Topix: Suffolk County, MA, Boston, MA, Foreclosures, Jamaica-Plain, MA
Officials declare war on predators
Apr 15, 2008 | via Boston Herald
C ity, state and federal officials yesterday vowed to disrupt the chain of mortgage lenders, brokers and middlemen like Dwight Jenkins of Dorchester, who have left a trail of foreclosed homes and busted buyers ...
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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank, Democrat, Boston, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance
Feb 21, 2008 | via Cape Cod Times
It may be a new year, but low sales volume, dropping prices and soaring foreclosure rates continued to plague the Cape and Islands real estate market in January, according to two reports released this week.
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Mass. home foreclosures more than double in May
Sunday Jul 6 | via EDGEptown.com Style Feed v1.0
Home foreclosure deeds more than doubled in Massachusetts last month, although a new state law has yielded a temporary decline in foreclosure petitions, the first step in the process.
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Related Topix: Foreclosures, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government
Mass. foreclosures set another record
Monday Jun 30 | via Boston Globe
Foreclosure deeds in Massachusetts broke another record last month, the Warren Group said today.
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Related Topix: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance
Wednesday Jun 25 | via Boston Herald
Both the Herald and the Globe ran columns based on the study's finding that Massachusetts has a large population loss - and citing that loss as proof that Massachusetts residents generally share the writers' ...
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Related Topix: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Seattle, WA, Housing, Opinion
Mass. home sales, prices are still falling
Wednesday Jun 25 | via Lowell Sun
Home sales and median prices continue to decline on a year-over-year basis, but some are starting to see a silver lining to the housing slump.
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Related Topix: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Housing, Real Estate
Median sales price falls 9.2 percent
Monday Jun 23 | via Boston Globe
The median selling price in May for single-family homes in Massachusetts fell 9.2 percent to $322,500, compared with $355,000 in May 2007, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors reported today The volume of ...
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Related Topix: Real Estate, Massachusetts, Housing
Lawmaker: Extend mortgage protection for vets
9 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
18 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'
23 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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