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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

• Biz briefs, Sunday, July 27, 2008

  5 hrs ago | via EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA 

  The Greater Salem Chamber of Commerce recently joined the German family in celebrating the first anniversary of their flower shop, Taylor Made Florals.

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  Related Topix: Wedding, Windham, NH, Home, Mortgage

• Biz briefs, July 6, 2008

  Saturday Jul 5 | via EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA 

  Local businesses and community leaders recently joined in the grand opening festivities at Enterprise Bank 's new Methuen office at 255 Broadway.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage

• Robert Kelly: Foreclosures: A pandemic

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via SalemNews.com, Salem, MA 

  A pandemic is an epidemic grown large. It is everywhere. It attacks many. Unless stopped, it can be ruinous.

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

• Bear Sterns B.S.

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via GroundReport.com 

  "We just lost a big chunk of our retirement," grumbled more than one person down at the Union Hall last week, when General Electric Co.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Lynn, MA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Home prices see sharp decline

  Jun 1, 2008 | via Boston.com Real Estate 

  Home prices across the northern suburbs posted sharp declines from January to April, with double-digit percentage drops recorded in several communities compared with the same period last year, according to ...

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  Related Topix: Boston, MA Metro, Boston Metro, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• U.S. foreclosures surge in June

  Friday | via Providence Business News 

  The number of foreclosure actions reported statewide increased last month in Rhode Island but fell slightly in Massachusetts compared with May, as the situation nationwide worsened sharply.

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• Mass. woman kills self before home foreclosure: police

  Wednesday Jul 23 | via Slam Sports 

  A 53-year-old wife and mother fatally shot herself shortly after faxing a letter to her mortgage company saying that by the time they foreclosed on her house that day, she would be dead.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Personal Finance, Mortgage, Winter Sports, Curling

• Pond View auction postponed

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA 

  A foreclosure auction of the last, unbuilt piece of Pond View Village - aimed at giving the chief lender a saleable title free of more than $1.5 million owed to contractors for the state and defaulting ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Massachusetts

• Foreclosures continue to climb in Massachusetts

  Monday Jul 21 | via Boston Business Journal 

  New Massachusetts residential foreclosures reached a temporary lull in June because of new regulations forcing a 90-day waiting period.

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• Mass. foreclosures in holding pattern

  Monday Jul 21 | via The Boston Globe 

  Massachusetts foreclosure filings dropped 85 percent in June from a year ago, largely because of a recent change in foreclosure regulations, said ForeclosuresMass.com, a Framingham-based provider of ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Affordable oasis near the sea

  2 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  Turning south onto Highway 1 from Skyline Boulevard, the road climbs to the top of a hill and then - like a rollercoaster after clanking its way slowly to its summit - plunges into Pacifica.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage

• U.S. Congress approves wide-ranging housing rescue bill,

  2 min ago | via VietNamNet 

  The U.S. Congress approved on Saturday a wide-ranging housing rescue bill that will offer up to 300 billion U.S. dollars in assistance to troubled mortgage giants and homeowners.

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

• Reverse mortgage leaves borrower stunned and stuck

  3 min ago | via Las Vegas Review Journal 

  Realtor Dave Berard, left, explains the terms of a reverse mortgage to William Lancaster in Lancaster's east Las Vegas home on July 17.

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  Related Topix: Social Security, Personal Finance, Las Vegas, NV, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage

• Economy Class

  3 min ago | via Journal Gazette 

  Forget leading economic indicators, corporate quarterly earnings, record-low home equity, record-high mortgage defaults and all the rest of it.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Stuck in the middle: Renters swept up in wave of foreclosures

  3 min ago | via New Haven Register 

  Aurea Ortiz, a renter on Sedgewick Street in Bridgeport, is in danger of being evicted from her home because the building is being foreclosed.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Bridgeport, CT, Bridgeport Metro, New Haven Metro, New Haven Metro, New Haven, CT