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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

• 16% office vacancy rates seen in county

  18 hrs ago | via San Diego Union-Tribune 

  San Diego County's office market continued to soften in the second quarter, with vacancy rates reaching 16.1 percent, thanks to tepid demand and new construction adding to supply.

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  Related Topix: San Diego County, CA, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Bay Area home prices plunge 27% in last year

  Thursday | via SF Gate 

  Among resold homes, bank-repossessed foreclosures - which usually are discounted - accounted for 28.7 percent of all existing-home sales, up from just 3.5 percent in June 2007.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Solano County, CA, Danville, CA, Marin County, CA

• JULY 18: College coaches seek recruits at Callaway tournament; LCC...

  Thursday | via Today's Local News 

  As the city's neighborhood services division manager, David Manley has seen his share of foreclosures in the past six months, particularly on the northeast side of town.

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  Related Topix: San Diego County, CA, Escondido, CA, Foreclosures, Oceanside, CA

• An Impressive 42% New Home Sales Volume Increase in San Diego County, Q2, 2008

  Thursday Jul 17 | via WebWire 

  Despite headlines touting pending national economic doom, there are signs that the new home market in San Diego County may have reached bottom.

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

National Headlines

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  4 min ago | via KansasCity.com 

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

• Realtor notes

  4 hrs ago | via Star-Press 

  MUNCIE -- Monte Needler, vice president of Coldwell Banker Lunsford, has announced the firm's residential sales and listing leaders for the week ending July 14.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Muncie, IN, Muncie Metro

• Don't count on Fed bailout for plunging U.S. currency

  4 hrs ago | via SFGate 

  The U.S. currency is not going to get a bailout, even though its steep decline is feeding inflation and straining the economy.

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  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Essex, CT, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Tips quicken chances for home sale

  4 hrs ago | via Fort Collins Coloradoan 

  Even though we are in mid-July there are still new listing coming on the market each day.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home

• Helping houses remain homes

  4 hrs ago | via The Baltimore Sun 

  Two years ago, Germaine Thomas and her husband, Anthony, moved with their five children into a house in an upscale neighborhood in Prince George's County .

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  Related Topix: Housing, Morgan State University