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Real Estate Portfolio Sep/Oct 2007 Dees Stribling	Coming into Focus Mortgage REITs of all stripes tighten their lending practices to improve their outlook going forward. The subprime event may mark a permanent change in the business environment for mortgage REITs, as well as mortgage lenders and investors.
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BusinessWeek January 9, 2006 Justin Hibbard	So Many Lenders, So Few Takers As housing slumps, the roof is falling in on the overbuilt mortgage industry.
Financial Planning December 1, 2011 Howard Hill	Decoding Mortgage REITs Mortgage REITs have become a hot topic as Wall Street firms have boosted coverage of this specialized slice of the stock market amid a flurry of IPOs over the past two years or so. These companies are potentially worthy investments, even for risk-averse clients.
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The Motley Fool March 6, 2007 Emil Lee	Cleaning Up in Subprime Loan World? This sector will turn volatile, so be careful when seeing if there's any value left.
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The Motley Fool March 9, 2007 Emil Lee	Shedding Some Light on Subprime Lenders An interview with the CEO of a website that provides marketing leads to mortgage companies offers a peek into the subprime world and where that market is headed. Investors, take note.
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The Motley Fool November 14, 2007 Seth Jayson	Charting the Housing Spin In its latest press release, the National Association of Realtors makes the argument that homes are better investments than stocks.
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The Motley Fool July 17, 2007 Sham Gad	What Sparked the Subprime Explosion? Some really smart people have taken one asset -- the plain old mortgage -- and singlehandedly created layers and layers of financial instruments that are predicated on it. Like dominoes, one by one, these securities are now tumbling and leaving investors and homeowners to clean up the mess.
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The Motley Fool March 14, 2007 David Meier	Quick Take: Subprime Scariness The process, not the outcome, is the scary part of the subprime disaster. Who's to blame? The mortgage lenders? The home sellers? The buyers themselves? (Whatever happened to caveat emptor?)
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U.S. Banker May 2007 Lee Conrad	Subprime Mortgages: As the Knot Unravels, A Question Lingers: Why? Consumers and companies following their self-interest are supposed to be guiding forces that drive a capitalist economy. The recent meltdown of the subprime-mortgage market, however, raises the question of whether all participants were headed in that direction.
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