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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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Local Headlines

• Bank Accuses Lutz Analyst Of Defamation

  Tuesday | via Tampa Bay Online 

  Last week, Lutz-based banking analyst Richard Bove was in hot demand by media outlets eager to know how safe the nation's banks really are.

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  Related Topix: Fort Lauderdale, FL, Broward County, FL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Miami Metro

• Bank analyst Bove sued over report

  Monday | via The Post Chronicle 

  Richard Bove, a prominent U.S. banking analyst, was sued on Monday by BankAtlantic Bancorp Inc, which accused him of defamation and negligence over a recently published research report, the bank said.

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  Related Topix: Broward County, FL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Miami Metro

• City Leader

  Friday Jul 18 | via WSVN-TV Miami Beach 

  Nancy Simon is a member of the Miami Lakes town council. She was also once a licensed real estate agent.

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• Furniture dealers hit hard by struggling housing market

  Thursday Jul 17 | via ScrippsNews 

  Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 07/17/2008 - 15:11. In the furniture business nowadays, even flat sales are considered good.

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  Related Topix: Conover, NC, University of North Carolina System, Apex, NC, Cary, NC, Housing

• Legals

  Thursday Jul 17 | via News Leader - Fernandina Beach, Florida 

  IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE 4TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR NASSAU COUNTY, FLORIDA GENERAL JURISDICTION DIVISION CASE NO: 07 CA 624 CITIMORTGAGE, INC PLAINTIFF, VS.

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Regional Headlines

• Home sales continue slide

  1 hr 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

  2 hrs 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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• Florida To Address Criminals In Mortgage Industry

  2 hrs 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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• McCollum "not ready" to say whether battered mortgage chief should go

  4 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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National Headlines

• The slump persists: Home sales tumble across US

  5 min ago | via KVEW 

  Sales of existing homes tumbled more sharply than expected in June, pushing activity down to the lowest level in more than a decade.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Post a comment

  6 min ago | via International Herald Tribune 

  A U.S. geological agency unveiled the largest-ever survey of petroleum resources north of the Arctic Circle.

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• Stocks tumble after sales of existing homes fall

  6 min ago | via KVEW 

  Stocks skidded lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales wiped away some of the market's optimism about upbeat earnings reports.

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• Home sales at 10-year low, jobless claims jump

  6 min ago | via Reuters 

  Jobless claims jumped and the pace of existing home sales tumbled to a 10-year low as slowing growth hit hiring and a glut of unsold houses weighed on real estate, data released on Thursday showed.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Housing, Real Estate, Mortgage, Financial Markets

• Daytona Beach area home sales, prices slide again in June

  7 min ago | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  Existing home sales in the Daytona Beach area slipped 13 percent in June, when compared to the same period last year, while prices slid another 14 percent, the Florida Association of Realtors reported today.

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