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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

• Kitsap County isn't immune to economic woes

  Saturday Jul 12 | via Port Orchard Independent 

  The U.S. economy seems to be struggling, and all of us in Kitsap County aren't immune to the economic downturn.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Kitsap County, WA, Silverdale, WA, Kingston, WA, Opinion

• Bainbridge real estate market still slow, steady

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Bainbridge Island Review 

  Halfway through the year, island home sales are half what they were a year ago, according to the latest statistics from the Northwest Multiple Listing Service.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Housing, Home Listing, Home

• Kingston real estate agent Zufelt awarded residential designation

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via Kingston Community News 

  Jan Zufelt, associate broker and RealtorA and with John L. Scott in Kingston, was awarded the Certified Residential Specialist Designation by the Council of Residential Specialists, the largest nonprofit ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Housing, Kitsap County, WA

• Kitsap Home Prices Holding Steady

  Monday Jul 7 | via Kitsapsun.com 

  Go to our Multiple Listing Service database to see home sales information for your area for the past six months.

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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Housing, Kitsap County, WA, Mortgage

• Habitat Looking for Potential Homeowners

  Monday Jul 7 | via Kitsapsun.com 

  Habitat for Humanity of Kitsap County is seeking low-income people to apply for housing at several meetings over the next two months.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Kitsap County, WA, Suquamish, WA, Seattle Metro, Bremerton, WA, Bremerton Metro

Regional Headlines

• and Whatcom Business Magazine

  11 hrs ago | via Bellingham Herald 

  Member Center Jul, 24, 2008 BUSINESS Wells Fargo names senior Business Banking relationship manager ` *Beta Graham Youtsey has been named senior Business Banking relationship manager at Wells Fargo.

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  Related Topix: Western Washington University, Home, Mortgage, Whatcom County, WA, Washington, Bellingham, WA

• Treasury Notes Drop on Stock Gains, Outlook for Wider U.S. Budget Deficit

  Wednesday | via Bloomberg 

  Treasury 10-year notes fell for a second day as stocks advanced and a government rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spurred concern the budget deficit will grow.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Washington, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

• Real Estate Tourists Venture Out on "Foreclosure Safari"

  Sunday Jul 20 | via KIMA 

  It's a safari unlike any you've seen before-- it's in your neighborhoods. More than 40 people took a bus tour of foreclosed homes around the Tri-Cities Saturday.

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

• Bush claims privilege to withhold CIA leak records

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Tri-cityherald.com 

  President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 15, 2008, where he called on Congress to move quickly to put into force legislation designed to prop up mortgage ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae, George Bush, Washington, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Top Story: Plame Games Continue: Bush Claims Executive Privilege On CIA Leak

  Thursday Jul 17 | via ABC News 

  The Associated Press 47 comments President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 15,... President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae, Washington, George Bush, US News, State of the Union

National Headlines

• Washington Mutual Bond Risk Rises as Credit-Default Swaps Climb to Record

  4 min ago | via Bloomberg Business News 

  The cost to protect Washington Mutual Inc. bonds from default rose for a third day to a record amid concern that the biggest U.S. savings and loan won't be able to weather the worst housing crisis since the ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Stamford, CT, Stamford Metro, New Haven Metro, Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage

• Foreclosure Filings More Than Double

  4 min ago | via KNBC Los Angeles Channel 4 

  The number of households facing the foreclosure process more than doubled in the second quarter compared to a year ago, according to data released Friday.

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  Related Topix: Irvine, CA, Stockton Metro, Stockton, CA, Housing, Foreclosures

• Housing rescue on track to pass Senate by Saturday

  5 min ago | via WAND-TV Decatur 

  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

• Michigan ranks 7th in foreclosures

  6 min ago | via MLive.com 

  Michigan ranked seventh in the country in foreclosures during the second quarter of this year, according to data released July 25 by RealtyTrac.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Stockton, CA, Stockton Metro

• More people are out of work than expected this month

  7 min ago | via WBIR-TV Knoxville 

  A domino effect on Wall Street. A down day triggered by dismal earnings posted by Ford, a steep drop in existing home sales, and a spike in jobless claims.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Housing, Ford, Mortgage