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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

• April home sales slump in Champaign County

  May 10, 2008 | via News-Gazette Local Stories 

  CHAMPAIGN The extent of the housing slump in Champaign County became more apparent in April, with home sales down more than 30 percent from April 2007.

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  Related Topix: Champaign, IL, Housing, Champaign County, IL, Real Estate

• Local home buyers taking time on decisions

  Apr 22, 2008 | via News-Gazette Technology Stories 

  CHAMPAIGN Home sales in Champaign County are down 8 percent from where they were a year ago.

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  Related Topix: Champaign, IL, Housing, Champaign County, IL, Real Estate

• Central Illinois Bank Hires Mortgage Lender

  Apr 9, 2008 | via Market Wire 

  Central Illinois Bank , Champaign, Illinois, is pleased to announce that Ellen Reinhart has rejoined CIB as Vice President of Mortgage Lending, serving the Champaign-Urbana, Danville and Monticello areas.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Illinois, Champaign, IL, Champaign Metro, Urbana, IL, East Peoria, IL

• Student homelessness on rise across Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

  Feb 21, 2008 | via The Daily Illini 

  The Illinois State Board of Education has reported that 60,000 homeless students live in the state of Illinois, which is significantly more than previously predicted.

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  Related Topix: Urbana, IL, Champaign, IL, Mortgage, Home, Education Etc.

• We Need Some Bargains In The Real Estate Market

  Dec 25, 2007 | via The Housing Bubble Blog 

  It's holiday desk clearing time for this blogger. "Skyline Pines East, the hilltop development project planned for the southern edge of Rapid City, South Dakota, will include four condominium towers standing ...

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• Chicago-area home sales drop 28% in June

  4 hrs ago | via Chicago Tribune 

  Sales and median prices for existing homes in Chicago and the state dropped in June as the real estate market remained strained by low consumer confidence and a troubled economy.

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  Related Topix: Cook County, IL, Chicago Metro, Chicago, IL, Housing, Real Estate, Illinois

• News roundup: MRAPs carry rollover risk; Russian nukes in Cuba?

  6 hrs ago | via USA Today 

  In the top story at Yahoo News, the Associated Press reports on rollovers involving MRAPs, the blast-resistant vehicles that are used to transport troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Illinois, Illinois Government, Barack Obama

• Budget gaps triple for '09

  17 hrs ago | via Stateline.org 

  The drumbeat of bad fiscal news from statehouses is intensifying. States collectively faced deficits of $40.3 billion in writing their current budgets - triple the $13 billion shortfall states weathered the ...

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  Related Topix: Illinois, Home, Mortgage

• Home Prices Sink Slightly in May

  Yesterday | via Tools of the Trade 

  Home prices declined 0.3 percent nationally in May, according to the monthly index released today by the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight , which tracks the values of homes purchased with Fannie ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing, Illinois

• Analysis: Bush, Dems face economic reality

  Yesterday | via UPI 

  U.S. President George W. Bush has dropped his lifelong opposition to government bailouts by approving one of the biggest in modern American history for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Illinois, George Bush

National Headlines

• The slump persists: Home sales tumble across US

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

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

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

  7 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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