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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

• 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

• Cape housing woes persist

  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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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Foreclosures, Housing

Regional Headlines

• 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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• Mass. exodus mostly a myth

  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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National Headlines

• 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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