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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

• Home prices slide in Pioneer Valley

  Friday | via MassLive.com 

  The median price of a single-family home in the Pioneer Valley fell 3.7 percent in the second quarter of 2008 to $208,000 compared with April, May and June 2007.

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  Related Topix: Longmeadow, MA, Greenfield, MA, Housing, Hampden County, MA, Real Estate, Springfield, MA

• Home prices in Pioneer Valley drop again

  Thursday Jul 17 | via MassLive.com 

  By JIM KINNEY Business writer SPRINGFIELD - The median price for a single-family home in the Pioneer Valley fell 3.7 in the last three months to $208,000 compared with April, May and June of 2007.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Springfield Metro, Springfield, MA, Longmeadow, MA, Hampden County, MA

• Mortgage crisis deepens locally

  Thursday Jul 10 | via MassLive.com 

  By JIM KINNEY Business writer SPRINGFIELD - Foreclosure filings nearly doubled in Hampden County between June 2007 and last month, while rising more than 50 percent nationally.

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  Related Topix: Springfield Metro, Springfield, MA, Hampden County, MA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Franklin County, MA

• Mortgage crisis gets worse in WMass

  Friday Jul 11 | via MassLive.com 

  Foreclosure filings nearly doubled in Hampden County between June 2007 and last month, while rising more than 50 percent nationally.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Hampden County, MA, Foreclosures, Franklin County, MA, Hampshire County, MA

• Hampden County Foreclosures at Record Levels

  Saturday Jul 5 | via WGGB 

  Local news from abc40 The high cost of college puts higher education out of reach for many students.

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Regional Headlines

• 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

• Mass. foreclosures set another record

  Monday Jun 30 | via Boston Globe 

  Foreclosure deeds in Massachusetts broke another record last month, the Warren Group said today.

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• Mass. exodus mostly a myth

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via Boston Herald 

  Both the Herald and the Globe ran columns based on the study's finding that Massachusetts has a large population loss - and citing that loss as proof that Massachusetts residents generally share the writers' ...

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  Related Topix: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Seattle, WA, Housing, Opinion

• Mass. home sales, prices are still falling

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via Lowell Sun 

  Home sales and median prices continue to decline on a year-over-year basis, but some are starting to see a silver lining to the housing slump.

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  Related Topix: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Housing, Real Estate

• Median sales price falls 9.2 percent

  Monday Jun 23 | via Boston Globe 

  The median selling price in May for single-family homes in Massachusetts fell 9.2 percent to $322,500, compared with $355,000 in May 2007, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors reported today The volume of ...

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National Headlines

• Paulson: Banking system sound, deposits protected

  3 min ago | via WAVE-TV Louisville 

  The treasury secretary says the list of troubled banks will grow longer as they struggle to cope with big losses on bad mortgages.

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• Paulson braces public for months of tough times

  4 min ago | via The Topeka Capital-Journal 

  Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sought to reassure an anxious public Sunday that the banking system is sound, while also bracing people for more troubled times ahead.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Chuck Jaffe: Most money-market funds are safe from financial meltdown

  1 hr ago | via MarketWatch 

  Edward in Brockton, Mass., got scared enough by the headlines a week ago that he did the unthinkable.

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  Related Topix: Boston Metro, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

• Antioch Police Department Sued by ACLU

  4 hrs ago | via Associated Content 

  Antioch is a growing city of a little more than 100,000 people situated at the Eastern edge of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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  Related Topix: ACLU, San Francisco, CA, Antioch, CA, Home, Mortgage

• Banks sound but economy to take time: Paulson

  11 min ago | via West Linn Tidings 

  The U.S. economy needs months to recover from its slowdown, but the banking system remains sound despite a home mortgage crisis that could cause more problems, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said.

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