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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

• Cobb County

  7 hrs ago | via Baker County Standard 

  Sublet Cobb County Search Apartments, Homes & Rooms For Rent In Cobb County & Atlanta.

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  Related Topix: Cobb County, GA, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Exciting Home Buyer Bonus Program

  Yesterday | via SmyrnaVinings.com 

  Now is a great time to buy a home in the Smyrna Vinings community. And we've just made it even better.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Smyrna, GA

• Mortgage Rate Update - " Week of July 21, 2008

  Monday Jul 21 | via SmyrnaVinings.com 

  We realize that many of you in the Smyrna Vinings area are in the process of purchasing a new home, thinking about purchasing a new home or just mulling over the idea.

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  Related Topix: Smyrna, GA, Mortgage, Home

• Bad MLS Photo - Week 29

  Sunday Jul 20 | via SmyrnaVinings.com 

  For the Bad MLS Photo of the Week , I came across not one, but lots of really bad photos and they're all for the same home.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Smyrna, GA

• Pet Dish: Food banks prevent pets from losing out

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Ask anyone at a local food bank and they'll tell you that as the economy has gone down, demand has gone up.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Winder, GA, Barrow County, GA, Cobb County, GA

Regional Headlines

• President Bush drops opposition to housing bill

  Yesterday | via The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  President Bush dropped his opposition Wednesday to a broad housing package aimed at bolstering the sagging economy, despite his objections to including $3.9 billion for neighborhoods hit hardest by ...

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  Related Topix: Georgia, George Bush, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Keep the down payment assistance program

  Yesterday | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Who's to blame for the subprime mortgage crisis sweeping the nation? Wall Street bankers who've overleveraged their books by billions of dollars? Or first-time home buyers who received gifts of a few thousand ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Georgia

• Lesbian candidate advances to Georgia House runoff

  Friday Jul 18 | via Southern Voice 

  Keisha Waites made it to an Aug. 5 runoff after taking second in a crowded field for House District 61 while Kevin Clark lost his bid for state Senate District 2. Keisha Waites is one step closer to making ...

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  Related Topix: East Point, GA, Mortgage, Atlanta Metro, Georgia

• A Texas warning for Georgia banks

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Atlanta Journal-Constitution 

  Several Georgia banks dominate a recent ranking of the nation's riskiest financial institutions based on a measure known as the "Texas ratio," which attempts to gauge how likely they will run into deep ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Alpharetta, GA, Georgia

• Superior Court Clerk Candidates Q&A

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Rome News - Tribune 

  I am a Floyd County native and I began my public service career in 1975 as a deputy sheriff with the Floyd County Sheriffs Department.

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  Related Topix: Texas A&M University System, Georgia, Real Estate

National Headlines

• Existing home sales fall 2.6% in June

  5 min ago | via Butler Eagle 

  Sales of existing homes fell more sharply than expected in June as the housing industry continued to be bruised by the worst slump in more than two decades.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Home Selling, Home

• Report: Foreclosure sales up in Maricopa County

  5 min ago | via KTAR / Local / Stories 

  A new report shows that more than 40 percent of Maricopa County home sales in June were foreclosures.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Housing

• Fauquier Foreclosure Sales

  6 min ago | via Times Community Newspapers - Fauquier County 

  I let you all know, not long ago that the Fauquier numbers for June looked pretty good.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• ASB follows Bollard's lead, cuts fixed rate - Cullen approves

  6 min ago | via NZ Herald 

  ASB has moved quickly to cut its two year fixed home lending rate, after Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard cut the Official Cash Rate to 8 per cent from 8.25 per cent.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Stocks tumble after sales of existing homes fall

  6 min ago | via NY Daily News 

  Wall Street abruptly ended an earnings-driven rally and closed sharply lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales and worries about the financial sector chilled the market's ...

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