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