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• Wachovia Changes The Lending Game

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Realty Trac 

  With assets of more than $800 billion, Wachovia is the nation's fourth-largest banking institution .

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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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• 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

• Mass. group helps on Habitat build

  May 27, 2008 | via The York Daily Record 

  Twelve volunteers from Acton, Mass., plan to help York Habitat for Humanity this week with construction projects to build several homes in York County.

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• 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

• U.S. foreclosures surge in June

  Yesterday | via Providence Business News 

  The number of foreclosure actions reported statewide increased last month in Rhode Island but fell slightly in Massachusetts compared with May, as the situation nationwide worsened sharply.

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• Mass. woman kills self before home foreclosure: police

  Wednesday | 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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• Pond View auction postponed

  Tuesday Jul 22 | 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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• 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

National Headlines

• U.S. Senate to Vote on Housing Bill

  5 min ago | via RedOrbit 

  The U.S. Senate, meeting in a rare weekend session, was poised Saturday to pass a landmark housing bill meant to ease the effects of mortgage crisis.

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• U.s. Congress Passes...

  6 min ago | via 102.9 CKDS-FM 

  U.S. Congress passed a housing rescue bill Saturday aimed at sparing 400,000 struggling homeowners from foreclosure.

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• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  6 min ago | via WLOS 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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

• Federal Regulators Close Two More Banks

  7 min ago | via Z 106.7 Jackson 

  Federal regulators have closed two banks in the West, saying they were undercapitalized due to the poor performance of home mortgage loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Reno Metro, Reno, NV

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  7 min ago | via Examiner.com 

  Jul 26, 2008 10:03 AM By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS, AP Newly built homes are offered for sale at the Brookville & Heirloom development by Lennar, in Valencia, Calif.

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