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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

• Friday, July 25 at 11:00 a.m.: Pearlstein: Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis

  Thursday Jul 24 | via The Washington Post 

  Steven Pearlstein Washington Post Columnist Friday, July 25, 2008; 11:00 AM Washington Post columnist Steven Pearlstein was online Friday, July 25 at 11:00 a.m. ET to discuss the mortgage foreclosure crisis, ...

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  Related Topix: Fishers, IN, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Slow turnaround likely for home sales

  Thursday | via WISH-TV Indianapolis 

  Analysts said the housing market is not going to dramatically improve anytime soon. 3 comments

  Related Topix: Housing, Central, IN, Fishers, IN, Indianapolis, IN, Indianapolis Metro

• Program helps with financial future

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via Indianapolis Star 

  Financial Peace University , the 13-week program taught by Dave Ramsey, has helped more than 650,000 families positively change their financial future.

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  Related Topix: Fishers, IN, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Family Friendly Communities

  Sunday Jul 13 | via American Dream News 

  Forbes Magazine is out with its list of most family friendly counties . As you might imagine, much of the criteria was driven by factors like education.

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  Related Topix: Hamilton County, IN, Housing

• Reporter's Notebook: Marin a good place to raise kids - if you can...

  Friday Jul 11 | via Marin Independent Journal 

  Marin County would be the best place in the nation to raise a family, according to Forbes.com, if only more families could live here. 13 comments

  Related Topix: Marin County, CA, Standardized Testing, Education, Housing, Family, Kids

Regional Headlines

• Senate expected to pass bill with property tax break

  Thursday Jul 24 | via IndyStar.com 

  The Senate is expected to finish a housing bill as early as Friday that includes a scaled-back version of a property tax break sought in part by Sen.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Evan Bayh, Democrat, Richard Lugar, Republican, US House of Representatives, Mike Pence, Indiana, Foreclosures

• Hundreds of foreclosed homes up for auction

  Sunday Jul 20 | via WISH-TV8 Indianapolis 

  Nearly 100 homes in the metro market went up on the auction block Sunday. All of them were in foreclosure. 22 comments

  Related Topix: Indiana, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Recovery takes long-term approach

  Friday Jul 18 | via The Tribune 

  It's been six weeks since floodwaters inundated Jackson County and much of central and southern Indiana, leaving behind a path of costly destruction and scores of homeless residents.

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  Related Topix: Bartholomew County, IN, Seymour, IN, Indiana, Home, Mortgage

• Group may go to court to halt foreclosure sales

  Monday Jul 14 | via WNDU-TV South Bend 

  A national housing activist group is threatening legal action to force Lake County's sheriff to halt the sale of foreclosed properties. 4 comments

  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Indiana

• Dow wobbles but regains feet

  Friday Jul 11 | via IndyStar.com 

  Fears that the nation could slip into recession and drag down Indiana stirred on Friday after oil prices soared on war worries and a key stock market index reeled over concerns about mortgage giants Fannie Mae ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Ben Bernanke, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Indiana

National Headlines

• Housing rescue passes

  8 min ago | via Martinsville Bulletin - Martinsville, Virginia 

  The candidates for the 5th District House seat in the November election differ on the merits of the housing legislation passed by Congress last week.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Banks rally as CEOs hold off on shares

  3 hrs ago | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  With many banks still reporting massive writedowns and even quarterly losses from bad mortgage investments, it certainly seems like an odd time for financial stocks to rally.

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Citigroup, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Wachovia Corporation, Merrill Lynch and Co, Investment Services

• Mortgage firm rescue bill awaits Bush's OK

  3 hrs ago | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000 struggling homeowners Saturday as part of an election-year housing plan that also aims to calm jittery financial markets and bolster the sagging economy.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, George Bush, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Financing completed for Pa. shopping center

  3 hrs ago | via CourierPostOnline 

  Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust has completed a $54 million financing of Paxton Towne Centre in Harrisburg, Pa.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust, Harrisburg, PA, Home, Mortgage

• Local communities sit half-built, fully troubled

  3 hrs ago | via News Press 

  Michael and Judith Van Dress have a lot of privacy and not a lot of competition when they use the brand-new fitness center at their condominium in Concordia.

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  Related Topix: Cape Coral, FL, Housing, Lee County, FL, Naples Metro