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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

• Street of broken dreams: Foreclosures shutter Sorrento Springs homes

  Monday Jul 21 | via The Orlando Sentinel 

  It was once a young couple's dream house -- a four-bedroom piece of paradise overlooking a golf course. 280 comments

  Related Topix: Lake County, FL, Housing, Home Gardening, Home, Sorrento, FL, Foreclosures, Home Listing

• Foreclosures on pace to double

  Sunday Jul 6 | via The Orlando Sentinel 

  More than 2,100 homes in Lake County have fallen into foreclosure through the first half of 2008, making this a record year for mortgage defaults in just six months. 17 comments

  Related Topix: Lake County, FL, Umatilla, FL, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Mascotte positions for slow growth

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via The Orlando Sentinel 

  At a time when past land annexations and long-delayed housing development plans are raining down financial problems on some local governments, this city is looking for better weather ahead with a forecast that ... 1 comment

  Related Topix: Lake County, FL, Real Estate, Groveland, FL, Minneola, FL, Mascotte, FL

• Lake County Business briefs

  May 25, 2008 | via The Orlando Sentinel 

  The Central Florida Women's Resource Center is accepting applications from nonprofit organizations in Lake, Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Volusia and Brevard counties for grants of up to $10,000 to support ...

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  Related Topix: Lake County, FL, Seminole, FL, Florida, Home, Mortgage, Clermont, FL

• Foreclosures continue at record rate

  May 9, 2008 | via The Orlando Sentinel 

  Lenders continue to foreclose on delinquent property-owners in Lake County at a record pace.

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  Related Topix: Lake County, FL, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Regional Headlines

• Home sales continue slide

  30 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

  4 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

  4 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

  5 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

  5 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

  5 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