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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

• Hite-Finney Home's days are numbered

  21 hrs ago | via The Times 

  A local family's fight to save its ancestral home may be coming to an end. Martinsville Mayor Phil Deckard said the city's legal department has begun the process of ordering the fire-damaged structure at 183 N. ...

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  Related Topix: Morgan County, IN, Martinsville, IN, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Judge grants Home Bank receivership of Holiday Inn

  Mar 27, 2008 | via The Times 

  Morgan County Superior Court III Judge Jane Craney has granted a request by Home Bank to appoint a receiver to operate the Holiday Inn Express on Burton Lane.

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  Related Topix: Morgan County, IN, Martinsville, IN, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures

• Holiday Inn Express

  Mar 26, 2008 | via The Times 

  The group that owns the Holiday Inn Express also owns this Citgo station in Centerton.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Morgan County, IN, Martinsville, IN, Foreclosures

• Housing market on slippery slope

  Mar 3, 2008 | via The Times 

  In May 2006, a middle-aged couple decided to sell their Morgan County ranch home.

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  Related Topix: Martinsville, IN, Foreclosures, Morgan County, IN, Home Listing, Mortgage

• New Madison Township fire chief wants to 'keep station open'

  Jan 16, 2008 | via The Times 

  Madison Township's new fire chief Tim Medsker poses here with assistant fire chief Scott McDonough in front of one of their older engines at Station 32 on Landersdale Road.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Indianapolis Metro, Mooresville, IN

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

  6 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