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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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Regional Headlines

• North Mississippi home builder developing Steeplechase near Oxford

  Jan 15, 2007 | via Memphis Business Journal 

  About 80 miles southeast of Memphis is a small Mississippi University town that is booming, and Tommy White wanted to make sure he had a piece of the action with his new Steeplechase development, located ...

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  Related Topix: University, MS, Batesville, MS, University of Tennessee System, Memphis (University of Tennessee System), Housing, Mississippi, Lafayette County, MS

• Down payment aid programs scrutinized

  Sunday Jul 6 | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  Local housing experts say down payment assistance programs aren't the best way to purchase a home and build equity, but they recognize their importance in Mississippi because of residents' low median income.

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

• Miss. Realtors Required To Disclose Meth Lab Houses

  Saturday Jul 5 | via WAPT.com 

  Mississippi home buyers will soon be able to find out if the house they want to purchase was used as a meth lab.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Real Estate

• Miss., La. To Use Mortgage Licensing System

  Friday Jun 27 | via WAPT 

  Mississippi and Louisiana are among the six states that will start using the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System next Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Mortgage, Home

• Home sales plummet despite lower prices

  Thursday Jun 26 | via The Mississippi Press 

  From January to May, Jackson County homes sold for an average of 20 percent less compared to that same time period last year, local Realtors and Multiple Listing Service data say.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi, Foreclosures, Latimer, MS, Hurley, MS, Big Point, MS, Wade, MS

National Headlines

• Foreclosures Up 121% From Last Year

  4 min ago | via WSRS-FM Paxton 

  Home foreclosure filings rose 14 percent in the second quarter, the eighth consecutive quarterly climb, and more than doubled from the same period a year-earlier, real estate data firm RealtyTrac said on ...

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  Related Topix: Florida, OH, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing

• N.H. home sales off sharply in first half of '08

  4 min ago | via The Citizen 

  Meantime, the median sales price fell 8 percent, the New Hampshire Association of Realtors said Thursday.

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• 30-year mortgage rates rise in US

  6 min ago | via Houston Home-Journal 

  Mortgage rates have risen in the US over the past week with 30-year mortgages climbing to the highest level in nearly a year.

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• US home foreclosures rise

  6 min ago | via BBC 

  The number of US homes in some stage of foreclosure more than doubled between April and June from the previous year.

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

• Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday

  6 min ago | via Ann Arbor News 

  The Senate has cleared the last hurdle to passing a massive housing rescue bill.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, George Bush, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance