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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

• .com investigations bring you into the story

  20 hrs ago | via KSTP 

  Home foreclosures in Hennepin County are up over 400 percent in just the last three years.

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  Related Topix: Hennepin County, MN, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• How safe is your bank?

  Yesterday | via KARE 11 TV 

  With the failure of Indymac Bank and the recent struggles of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, many people may be wondering, how safe is my bank? Earlier this week Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the list of ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Edina, MN

• Home Foreclosures Mean More Homeless Families

  Tuesday | via Wcco.com 

  The housing foreclosure crisis created another crisis in the Twin Cities -- homeless families.

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  Related Topix: Hennepin County, MN, Foreclosures

• Broker Resorts To Stealing "Realtor's Little Helper" From Clients

  Saturday Jul 19 | via Housing Doom 

  A real estate broker is facing charges after he allegedly stole pain medication from houses he had claimed to be showing to clients.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Hennepin County, MN, Home Listing, Home

• Housing Pain: Broker Allegedly Swipes Pills

  Friday Jul 18 | via US News & World Report 

  The national housing bust has put real estate agents in a world of hurt; as business has slowed dramatically from its once-booming clip.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home Listing, Home, Hennepin County, MN

Regional Headlines

• Trendsetters

  46 min ago | via Minnesota Monthly 

  Our semi-annual profile of the region's leading companies and their key executives.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Eden Prairie, MN, Real Estate, Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

• Homeless advocates get promise

  Tuesday | via Southside Pride 

  Demonstrators on the sidewalk outside the HUD office in downtown Minneapolis. A protest of government policies that concern, among other things, how the homeless population in America is calculated, has ...

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  Related Topix: Minnesota, Evergreen State College, Home, Mortgage

• Higher gas bills may push more into foreclosure

  Monday | via KAAL-TV Austin 

  Behind on Your Bill? A spike in home-heating costs this winter may be high enough to put some out in the cold.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Minnesota, Home, Mortgage

• Internet Insite: Cheap, last-minute Minn. getaways

  Monday Jul 14 | via KAAL 

  Do you have an interesting Web site you'd like to see featured on Internet InSITE? Email Web Manager Justin Piehowski, jpiehowski@kstp.com . Watch INTERNET InSITE each Monday at 6:30 on 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Lutsen, MN, Minnesota, Grand Marais, MN

• DNR must stop stalling;new study confirms MCEA shorelands concerns

  Friday Jul 11 | via Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy 

  July 11, 2008 DNR must stop stalling;new study confirms MCEA shorelands concerns After a year and a half study led by the University of Minnesota, planners have concluded Minnesota needs to better protect its ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Minnesota Government, Minnesota

National Headlines

• Sales of Existing Homes Nonexistent

  3 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

  3 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

  3 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

  3 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

  3 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