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

Local Headlines

• `Bailout' bill helps save us all

  3 hrs ago | via Inland Valley Daily Bulletin 

  Call it a bailout if you will, but a $4 billion plan to help cities in California cope with the foreclosure crisis is also a necessary step toward eliminating the blight that comes with abandoned homes.

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  Related Topix: San Bernardino County, CA, Foreclosures

• Depressed market leaves opening for 'for lease' signs

  12 hrs ago | via San Bernardino County Sun 

  The open-house signs announcing new tracts in the fast-growing Inland Valley have been replaced by ones declaring bank ownership - evidence of a depressed market and depressed former homeowners.

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  Related Topix: Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures, San Bernardino County, CA

• Eyesores multiply

  17 hrs ago | via Inland Valley Daily Bulletin 

  A house that once brought joy and comfort to a family now sits vacant. The windows that once invited light inside are now boarded up or broken. 6 comments

  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Chino, CA, Chino Hills, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

• Expert: Valley is in a recession

  23 hrs ago | via Desert Sun 

  The Desert Sun's Economic Index shows the Coachella Valley economy is in recession, a Chapman University economist said after analyzing first-quarter data.

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  Related Topix: San Bernardino County, CA, Riverside County, CA, Foreclosures, Housing

• Bad news for renters

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via San Bernardino County Sun 

  Rental prices for single-family homes keep climbing in the Inland Empire, and depending on the unit's size, landlords are lifting rents higher than the rate of inflation.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

Regional Headlines

• Californians feel pinch--and pinch pennies

  15 hrs ago | via McClatchy DC 

  Skyrocketing gas prices have collided with layoffs, foreclosures and food costs to change the way we live in everyday ways.

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  Related Topix: California, Foreclosures

• Good food gives chef satisfaction

  23 hrs ago | via Hattiesburg American 

  Pilgrimages are typically once-in-a-lifetime events. If one is lucky he or she might get to make two or three pilgrimages over the course of their life.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

• Builder incentives: Just marketing, or the real deal?

  20 hrs ago | via KCPQ 

  Most new-home buyers find it hard to resist the lure of builder incentives -- paid closing costs, an allowance for free upgrades at the design center or interest-rate buy-downs. But are they really worth it? ...

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  Related Topix: Marketing, California, Foreclosures, Construction, William Lyon Homes, Home Listing, Home

• Another 'gimmick'

  22 hrs ago | via Fresno Bee 

  Governor's lottery plan gains few defenders. There's not much good news at the moment about the state budget -- it's overdue, as usual; there's no sign of agreement anytime soon; no permanent fix is in sight -- ...

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  Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Nontraditional tenants occupy dark stores at malls

  Saturday | via Journal News 

  Community college classes in the old mall movie theater. A DMV office across from the Starbucks.

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  Related Topix: Housing, California, California Government

National Headlines

• Beware of reverse mortage scams

  4 min ago | via Jacksonville Daily News 

  Columnist's Note: This letter has been edited for length. Dear Troubleshooter: I read your column all the time and find it most informative.

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  Related Topix: Family, Elderly, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Condo Volume for June down 52% from the high

  2 hrs ago | via Ardell's Seattle Real Estate Blog 

  The number of King County condo sales in June of this year is 52% lower than the highs of 2005 and 2006 and a little more than 50% lower than June of last year.

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• Acacia revamps and expands mortgage business

  3 hrs ago | via Bizjournals 

  While many lenders are ‘running away’ from residential mortgages, Acacia Federal CEO James Barber plans to almost quadruple the amount of home loans his bank originates each month.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• No Velvet Rope

  Thursday Jul 3 | via SmartMoney 

  THESE DAYS CONSUMERS are dealing with skyrocketing prices for everything from a gallon of gas to a gallon of milk.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Retirement

• Others' economic woes bring business to bankruptcy attorney

  8 min ago | via The Business Journal of Phoenix 

  High foreclosure rates and the increasing number of individual and small-business bankruptcies are keeping attorney Dan Gukeisen’s services in demand.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures