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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

Regional Headlines

• Janesville recognized for affordable housing

  7 hrs ago | via The Janesville Gazette - Janesville, Wisconsin 

  The city was ranked 16th in affordable housing. With a median home price of $124,700, Janesville was the only Wisconsin community to make the housing list.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Wisconsin, Real Estate

• Planned bill targets Wisconsin Supreme Court decision on lawsuits by homebuyers

  Monday Jul 21 | via Wisconsin State Journal 

  State lawmakers say they plan to introduce legislation next year that would reverse a state Supreme Court decision blocking home buyers from suing sellers for punitive damages when they lie about the condition ...

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Middleton, WI, Juneau, WI, Wisconsin, Real Estate

• Planning for the future

  Thursday Jul 10 | via The Daily Press 

  Senior citizens on fixed incomes aren't going to be surprised by the results of a report released this week that shows it is increasingly difficult to make ends meet.

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  Related Topix: Bayfield, WI, Ashland, WI, Wisconsin, Social Security, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Opinion

• Buyers lose recourse in frauds

  Sunday Jul 6 | via Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal 

  Home buyers who believe a seller has lied to them cannot sue for fraud to recover damages, a divided Wisconsin Supreme Court said Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Wisconsin, Real Estate, Brookfield, WI, Milwaukee Metro, Milwaukee Metro

• Kohl proposal aimed at foreclosure rescue scams

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal 

  Wisconsinites at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure could receive additional protections under a measure authored by Sen.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Wisconsin, Wisconsin Government

National Headlines

• Existing home sales fall 2.6% in June

  3 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

  3 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

  3 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

  3 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

  4 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