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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

• FBI: Bemidji realty scam inflated property values

  Apr 12, 2008 | via KSAX 

  An FBI affidavit accuses a realtor in Bemidji of participating in a conspiracy to inflate property values in through sham sales, kickbacks, and falsified loan applications.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Real Estate, Publishing, Media, Bemidji, MN, Beltrami County, MN, Home Listing, Home

• FBI raids in Bemidji target realty fraud

  Apr 11, 2008 | via Star Tribune 

  In August 2004, a source in the Bemidji real estate industry complained to the FBI about a real estate agent who appeared to be engaging in fraudulent deals involving rental properties.

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  Related Topix: Frazee, MN, Foreclosures, Bemidji, MN, Real Estate, Beltrami County, MN

Regional Headlines

• Trendsetters

  19 hrs ago | via Minnesota Monthly 

  Our semi-annual profile of the region's leading companies and their key executives.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Eden Prairie, MN, Real Estate, Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

• Homeless advocates get promise

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via Southside Pride 

  Demonstrators on the sidewalk outside the HUD office in downtown Minneapolis. A protest of government policies that concern, among other things, how the homeless population in America is calculated, has ...

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  Related Topix: Minnesota, Evergreen State College, Home, Mortgage

• Higher gas bills may push more into foreclosure

  Monday Jul 21 | via KAAL-TV Austin 

  Behind on Your Bill? A spike in home-heating costs this winter may be high enough to put some out in the cold.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Minnesota, Home, Mortgage

• Internet Insite: Cheap, last-minute Minn. getaways

  Monday Jul 14 | via KAAL 

  Do you have an interesting Web site you'd like to see featured on Internet InSITE? Email Web Manager Justin Piehowski, jpiehowski@kstp.com . Watch INTERNET InSITE each Monday at 6:30 on 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Lutsen, MN, Minnesota, Grand Marais, MN

• DNR must stop stalling;new study confirms MCEA shorelands concerns

  Friday Jul 11 | via Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy 

  July 11, 2008 DNR must stop stalling;new study confirms MCEA shorelands concerns After a year and a half study led by the University of Minnesota, planners have concluded Minnesota needs to better protect its ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Minnesota Government, Minnesota

National Headlines

• Washington Mutual Bond Risk Rises as Credit-Default Swaps Climb to Record

  3 min ago | via Bloomberg Business News 

  The cost to protect Washington Mutual Inc. bonds from default rose for a third day to a record amid concern that the biggest U.S. savings and loan won't be able to weather the worst housing crisis since the ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Stamford, CT, Stamford Metro, New Haven Metro, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

• Foreclosure Filings More Than Double

  3 min ago | via KNBC Los Angeles Channel 4 

  The number of households facing the foreclosure process more than doubled in the second quarter compared to a year ago, according to data released Friday.

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  Related Topix: Irvine, CA, Stockton Metro, Stockton, CA, Housing, Foreclosures

• Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday

  4 min ago | via WAND-TV Decatur 

  The Senate has cleared the last hurdle to passing a massive housing rescue bill.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, George Bush, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Michigan ranks 7th in foreclosures

  5 min ago | via MLive.com 

  Michigan ranked seventh in the country in foreclosures during the second quarter of this year, according to data released July 25 by RealtyTrac.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Stockton, CA, Stockton Metro

• More people are out of work than expected this month

  7 min ago | via WBIR-TV Knoxville 

  A domino effect on Wall Street. A down day triggered by dismal earnings posted by Ford, a steep drop in existing home sales, and a spike in jobless claims.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Housing, Ford, Mortgage