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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

• Tri-Valley Bank founder to run proposed SF Commerce Bank in San Francisco

  Mar 17, 2008 | via East Bay Business Times 

  Bill Nethercott, the former CEO of Tri-Valley Bank , is the proposed president and CEO of SF Commerce Bank , a new bank in formation in San Francisco.

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  Related Topix: Orinda, CA, Housing, San Francisco Metro, UC San Francisco, University of California System, San Francisco, CA

• Morning Mortgage Meltdown: June Prices Tanked: June saw the median price for...

  Yesterday | via Curbed SF 

  June saw the median price for new homes and condos in the Bay Area plummeted 27% from a year ago.

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  Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Metro, Housing

• Bay Area home prices drop

  Friday | via Pleasant Hill Record 

  Bay Area home prices continued to spiral downward in June due to a combination of sellers settling for less, more aggressively-priced foreclosures and sales activity increasing in less-expensive inland areas.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Housing, Stockton, CA, Stockton Metro, Contra Costa County, CA, San Francisco County, CA

• California Bank of Commerce Announces Results for the 2nd Quarter...

  Thursday | via MarketWatch 

  At the end of the second quarter, Total Assets were up by 29% over the end of the first quarter, 2008.

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  Related Topix: San Francisco, CA, California, Home, Mortgage

• Mortgage meltdown: local transfusions from afar

  Thursday | via SF Gate 

  Yes, Bay Area home prices hit yet another low, as the Chronicle reports today, and home sales continue that sinking-like-a-stone feeling .

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Housing, Real Estate, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Metro, SoMa (San Francisco, 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

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  5 min ago | via Midway/Como Monitor 

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Science / Technology, Internet

• Phoenix Area MLS Loses 20% Of It's Members In June

  7 min ago | via Housing Doom 

  A lousy housing market and changes at ARMLS have led to a huge drop in membership: The listing service Valley real-estate agents use to advertise homes for sale canceled more than 20 percent of its memberships ...

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• Housing rebound unlikely for near future, some say

  4 hrs ago | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  The Bush administration's pledge to rescue ailing housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac raises anew questions about just when the nation's dismal housing market will hit bottom.

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

• Rental prices hold steady Number of new renters keeps pace with increasing supply

  9 hrs ago | via Prattville Progress 

  You might expect that as more and more people rent the houses they cannot sell during the cur rent real estate downturn, the in creased number of rental proper ties would bring about a drastic drop in rental ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Mortgage, Home, Prattville, AL

• Neighborhood is quiet, convenient

  Yesterday | via Prattville Progress 

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Prattville, AL, Home Listing