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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

• WCI betters offer to repay arrears

  13 hrs ago | via News Press 

  WCI Communities Inc., the struggling luxury builder based in Bonita Springs, is upping the ante to convince its debt-holders to allow more time to repay them.

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  Related Topix: Bonita Springs, FL, Construction, WCI Communities, Deerfield Beach, FL, Real Estate

• Foreclosures rise at record rate

  Yesterday | via The Cherokee Scout 

  Local property owners continue to lose their land at an alarming rate as they fail to make mortgage payments.

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  Related Topix: Murphy, NC, Cherokee County, NC, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Bank Accuses Lutz Analyst Of Defamation

  Tuesday | via Tampa Bay Online 

  Last week, Lutz-based banking analyst Richard Bove was in hot demand by media outlets eager to know how safe the nation's banks really are.

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  Related Topix: Fort Lauderdale, FL, Broward County, FL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Miami Metro

• Bank analyst Bove sued over report

  Monday | via The Post Chronicle 

  Richard Bove, a prominent U.S. banking analyst, was sued on Monday by BankAtlantic Bancorp Inc, which accused him of defamation and negligence over a recently published research report, the bank said.

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  Related Topix: Broward County, FL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Miami Metro

• Foreclosure Defense Buys Homeowners Time

  Friday Jul 18 | via Black Enterprise 

  By Monica Hatcher, The Miami Herald Jul. 18--As foreclosures continue to mount, borrowers who have run out of options are turning to attorneys to fight back -- and they're living mortgage-free for months in the ...

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  Related Topix: Miami Metro, Deerfield Beach, FL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• Home sales continue slide

  31 min ago | via The Miami Herald 

  With the local economy on the ropes and the number of borrowers behind on their mortgages rising, South Florida median home prices and sales continued sliding last month, falling an average 20.5 percent in ...

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, University of Miami, Real Estate, Housing, Foreclosures, Home Listing

• Mortgages

  1 hr ago | via Daily Business Review 

  That's one of the explanations in a 40-page response to a Miami Herald investigation, which found that more than 10,000 people with criminal records were permitted to work in Florida's mortgage industry between ...

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  Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Florida To Address Criminals In Mortgage Industry

  1 hr ago | via Tampa Bay Online 

  The head of a state agency that allowed thousands of criminals to sell home loans in Florida has acknowledged that his office did not follow a screening law, but blamed legislators for failing to provide money ...

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  Related Topix: Florida, Florida Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• McCollum "not ready" to say whether battered mortgage chief should go

  3 hrs ago | via El Sentinel 

  Next Tuesday is bound to be a bloodletting when the Florida Cabinet meets to decide the fate of embattled Office of Financial Regulation chief Don Saxon . 1 comment

  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Florida, Florida Government

• FAR: South Florida home sales continue decline

  Monday Jul 21 | via South Florida Business Journal 

  Year-over-year single-family home sales and prices declined again in June, across South Florida and the state, a Florida Association of Realtors report showed.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, West Palm Beach, FL, Florida, Miami Metro, Fort Myers, FL, Cape Coral, FL

National Headlines

• Sales of Existing Homes Nonexistent

  5 min ago | via Huliq.com 

  Sales of US existing homes fell 2.6% to an annualized rate of 4.86 million from a 4.99 million pace the prior month.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Home Selling, Housing, Real Estate

• Banks step up Fed borrowing, Wall Street passes

  5 min ago | via The Flint Journal 

  Banks stepped up their borrowing over the past week from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program, while Wall Street firms didn't draw such loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Jobless claims jump as housing market gets weaker

  6 min ago | via Marin Independent Journal 

  Two cornerstones of the economy - jobs and housing - sank to new depths Thursday, with unemployment claims bolting higher and home prices recording one of their steepest drops on record.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures

• Gloomy day for U.S. markets

  6 min ago | via The Globe and Mail 

  The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped 34,000 last week, the Labor Department said, in part reflecting seasonal volatility typical at this time of year, but also indicating ...

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

• Md. Woman Charged In Tax Scandal

  6 min ago | via NewsChannel 8 

  A real estate agent from Prince George's County has been charged in a scheme that prosecutors believe defrauded the D.C. tax office out of nearly $50 million.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Clinton, MD, University of the District of Columbia