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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

• NAMAR Stays on Top of Legislative Issues

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Atlanta Real Estate Forum.com 

  The Northeast Atlanta Metro Association of REALTORS had a great turn out for the Election Forum held on June 30, 2008.

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  Related Topix: Atlanta Metro, Real Estate, Gwinnett County, GA, Immigration Reform

• Unequal spending likely for Beltline

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  A $120 million Beltline bond issue planned for September was envisioned to be spent across the 22-mile loop to buy land for new parks, build affordable housing, upgrade streets and sidewalks and fund other ...

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  Related Topix: Gwinnett County, GA, Home, Mortgage, Atlanta Metro

• Plenty of OT if you evict

  Thursday Jul 3 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  A couple of knocks at the door. A pair of officers identified. And a voice that says: "We're here to evict you." It's becoming a more common greeting these days, given the ongoing foreclosure crisis and ...

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  Related Topix: Gwinnett County, GA, Foreclosures

• Flood of home evictions overwhelms sheriffs

  Monday Jun 30 | via The Jersey Journal 

  On June 19, sheriff's deputies Mark LaBoy and Joe Buico stood inside the living room of a Gwinnett County house after evicting its former owner at gunpoint.

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  Related Topix: Lilburn, GA, Cobb County, GA, Atlanta, GA, Gwinnett County, GA, Home, Mortgage

• opinions

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via Jackson Herald 

  Evaluating local high schools depends on what your priorities are What is the best high school in the Jefferson area? That explosive question is one that citizens have debated for decades.

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  Related Topix: Gwinnett County, GA, Real Estate, Marketing, Jefferson, GA, Standardized Testing, Education, Opinion

Regional Headlines

• President Bush drops opposition to housing bill

  Yesterday | via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  President Bush dropped his opposition Wednesday to a broad housing package aimed at bolstering the sagging economy, despite his objections to including $3.9 billion for neighborhoods hit hardest by ...

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  Related Topix: Georgia, George Bush, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Keep the down payment assistance program

  Yesterday | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Who's to blame for the subprime mortgage crisis sweeping the nation? Wall Street bankers who've overleveraged their books by billions of dollars? Or first-time home buyers who received gifts of a few thousand ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Georgia

• Lesbian candidate advances to Georgia House runoff

  Friday Jul 18 | via Southern Voice 

  Keisha Waites made it to an Aug. 5 runoff after taking second in a crowded field for House District 61 while Kevin Clark lost his bid for state Senate District 2. Keisha Waites is one step closer to making ...

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  Related Topix: East Point, GA, Mortgage, Atlanta Metro, Georgia

• A Texas warning for Georgia banks

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Several Georgia banks dominate a recent ranking of the nation's riskiest financial institutions based on a measure known as the "Texas ratio," which attempts to gauge how likely they will run into deep ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Alpharetta, GA, Georgia

• Superior Court Clerk Candidates Q&A

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Rome News - Tribune 

  I am a Floyd County native and I began my public service career in 1975 as a deputy sheriff with the Floyd County Sheriffs Department.

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  Related Topix: Texas A&M University System, Georgia, Real Estate

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

  3 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

  3 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