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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

• Families' 'healing' begins with building Habitat homes

  3 hrs ago | via The Peninsula Gateway 

  A team of Habitat volunteers lift a wall into place during the house-framing frenzy Friday.

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  Related Topix: Fox Island, WA, Home, Mortgage, Pierce County, WA, Family, Kids

• first deal nearly closed - Awesome product' still a tough sell

  Friday Jul 18 | via The News Tribune 

  A second-floor condo at The Esplanade on the Foss Waterway in Tacoma comes with granite counters.

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  Related Topix: Pierce County, WA, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Seattle Metro, Tacoma, WA

• Foreclosure filings up nearly 70% in state

  Thursday Jul 10 | via The Seattle Times 

  Washington state foreclosure filings were up 69 percent last month compared with the previous June and up almost 10 percent from May, as the mortgage meltdown continues despite government and private efforts to ...

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  Related Topix: Pierce County, WA, Snohomish County, WA, King County, WA, Home, Mortgage

• Sellers could soon have their market

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Tacoma News Tribune 

  The median home price in Pierce County continued to drop in June but so, too, did the number of homes awaiting buyers.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Pierce County, WA, Snohomish, WA, Puyallup, WA

• Habitat Looking for Potential Homeowners

  Monday Jul 7 | via Kitsapsun.com 

  Habitat for Humanity of Kitsap County is seeking low-income people to apply for housing at several meetings over the next two months.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Kitsap County, WA, Suquamish, WA, Seattle Metro, Bremerton, WA, Bremerton Metro

Regional Headlines

• Treasury Notes Drop on Stock Gains, Outlook for Wider U.S. Budget Deficit

  Yesterday | via Bloomberg 

  Treasury 10-year notes fell for a second day as stocks advanced and a government rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spurred concern the budget deficit will grow.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Washington, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

• Real Estate Tourists Venture Out on "Foreclosure Safari"

  Sunday Jul 20 | via KIMA 

  It's a safari unlike any you've seen before-- it's in your neighborhoods. More than 40 people took a bus tour of foreclosed homes around the Tri-Cities Saturday.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Washington, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Bush claims privilege to withhold CIA leak records

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Tri-cityherald.com 

  President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 15, 2008, where he called on Congress to move quickly to put into force legislation designed to prop up mortgage ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae, George Bush, Washington, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Top Story: Plame Games Continue: Bush Claims Executive Privilege On CIA Leak

  Thursday Jul 17 | via ABC News 

  The Associated Press 47 comments President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 15,... President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae, Washington, George Bush, US News, State of the Union

• Law skewed in favor of builders

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

  For the past two years, I've offered a bill in the state Senate that attempts to level the playing field between home buyers and builders.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Thurston County, WA, Olympia Metro, Olympia, WA, Washington, Opinion

National Headlines

• Editorial: Cloudy prospects

  3 min ago | via Business Standard 

  Oil prices have dipped a good 15 per cent in the last few days, and suddenly the forecasts on oil prices talk of a dip, not a further rise in prices.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

• Housing, jobs send stocks skidding

  3 min ago | via SI.com 

  Renewed fears about the battered housing market and rising unemployment sent stocks into a tailspin Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing

• On the Market: Chad Rogers's Beverly Hills Listing

  4 min ago | via CurbedLA 

  Last week, everyone met Chad Rogers , one of the real estate agents behind the forthcoming "Million Dollar Listings," Bravo's new television show about three "hot" Los Angeles real estate agents.

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  Related Topix: Beverly Hills, CA, Real Estate, Los Angeles, CA, Million Dollar Listing, Reality TV, Entertainment, Television

• PricewaterhouseCoopers: Credit and mortgage crisis cause companies to delay public offerings

  4 min ago | via International Herald Tribune 

  NEW YORK : PricewaterhouseCoopers on Thursday reported that the number of initial public offerings for the first half of the year has fallen to a four-year low because of turbulent market conditions.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Accounting, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Visa Inc., Financial Markets

• Credit Suisse profit plunges 62%, less than analysts said

  5 min ago | via The Taipei Times 

  Credit Suisse has been able to cut risky positions a bit faster than probably the average in the sector.

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  Related Topix: Insurance, Credit Suisse Group, Home, Mortgage, Banking, Financial Services, Ubs Ag