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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

• House hunting in the age of $4 gas

  Jun 21, 2008 | via Boston Globe 

  Gas cost just over $2 a gallon in October 2006 when Derek Benoit bought his condominium in Amesbury in the far northeastern corner of the state.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Home Listing

• Hey, house hunters: Price isn't everything

  Jun 15, 2008 | via Lowell Sun 

  For those of you prospective home buyers who have successfully waited out the price declines of the past two years, you may now be at the point where self-congratulations should cease. 5 comments

  Related Topix: Ben Bernanke, Tewksbury, MA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• In NL County, Mortgages Hard To Come By Amid Continued Slump

  Jun 13, 2008 | via The Day 

  Fewer buyers in regional market as home sales, prices slide further With mortgages hard to come by, Connecticut home prices are feeling the heat.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Litchfield County, CT, Middlesex County, CT, Fairfield County, CT, Mortgage

• Across Merrimack Valley, record number of homes lost to foreclosure

  Jun 11, 2008 | via Lowell Sun 

  LOWELL FEELING MORE THAN ITS SHARE OF PAIN: There were 51 foreclosures in the city last month the highest number for May since 1989. 28 comments

  Related Topix: Lawrence, MA Metro, Housing

• Jumbo loan increase is chance to refinance

  May 17, 2008 | via Lowell Sun 

  Q: When I bought my house last year, I borrowed two mortgage loans. Otherwise, a single loan balance would have been too high, resulting in a dreaded "jumbo loan." Among my two loans: the first loan's rate was ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing, Middlesex County, MA

Regional Headlines

• Mass. woman kills self before home foreclosure: police

  20 hrs ago | via Slam Sports 

  A 53-year-old wife and mother fatally shot herself shortly after faxing a letter to her mortgage company saying that by the time they foreclosed on her house that day, she would be dead.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Personal Finance, Mortgage, Winter Sports, Curling

• Pond View auction postponed

  Yesterday | via GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA 

  A foreclosure auction of the last, unbuilt piece of Pond View Village - aimed at giving the chief lender a saleable title free of more than $1.5 million owed to contractors for the state and defaulting ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Massachusetts

• Foreclosures continue to climb in Massachusetts

  Monday Jul 21 | via Boston Business Journal 

  New Massachusetts residential foreclosures reached a temporary lull in June because of new regulations forcing a 90-day waiting period.

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• Mass. foreclosures in holding pattern

  Monday Jul 21 | via The Boston Globe 

  Massachusetts foreclosure filings dropped 85 percent in June from a year ago, largely because of a recent change in foreclosure regulations, said ForeclosuresMass.com, a Framingham-based provider of ...

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

• Mass. home foreclosures more than double in May

  Sunday Jul 6 | via EDGEptown.com Style Feed v1.0 

  Home foreclosure deeds more than doubled in Massachusetts last month, although a new state law has yielded a temporary decline in foreclosure petitions, the first step in the process.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government

National Headlines

• The slump persists: Home sales tumble across US

  7 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

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  8 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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  Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Housing

• Stocks tumble after sales of existing homes fall

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

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

  8 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

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