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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

• Utah job growth falls below 1%

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Salt Lake Tribune 

  Job losses in the residential real-estate industry continue to take their toll on Utah's economy, pushing employment growth last month below the 1 percent mark for the first time in five years.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home, Home Selling, Foreclosures, Housing, Sundance Film Festival, Utah Government, Utah

• Utah job growth at 5-year low as construction work dips

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Salt Lake Tribune 

  Employment growth in Utah has slowed to a crawl, dipping below the 1 percent mark last month for the first time in five years.

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• Entrepreneurial Spirit Key to Utah Valley's Success, Experts say

  Friday Jul 11 | via Utah Business 

  Slowing commercial and residential real estate markets, sluggish tourism levels and transportation troubles are some of the issues facing Utah Valley, as well as much of the state.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Brigham Young University, Utah

• Bankruptcy in Utah up 42#x25 year-to-date

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Deseret Morning News 

  He sees it every day at work: adults with a bankruptcy in their past needing to re-establish their credit to make a major purchase.

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Credit Card Debt, Utah Government, Utah

• Utah foreclosures up 141#x25

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Deseret Morning News 

  The number of Utah homeowners who received a foreclosure filing in June jumped nearly 141 percent, compared with the same month last year, according to a report released Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Provo, UT, Orem, UT, Utah County, UT, Utah, Sundance Film Festival, Foreclosures

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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• 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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• 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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• 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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