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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

• Bexar County foreclosure filings slide below 900

  Jun 12, 2008 | via MySanAntonio.com 

  Bexar County foreclosure filings dipped below 900 for the first time in five months, continuing a general trend of declines.

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  Related Topix: Bexar County, TX, Foreclosures, San Antonio Metro, San Antonio, TX

• Nonprofit Group Helping Troubled Homeowners

  May 21, 2008 | via KSAT-TV San Antonio 

  In two weeks, 949 Bexar County homes will go on the auction block because of foreclosures.

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  Related Topix: Social Security, Personal Finance, Bexar County, TX, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage

• S.A.'s existing-home sales decrease, but prices rise

  May 20, 2008 | via MySanAntonio.com 

  In San Antonio, fewer existing homes were sold in April than last year, but the bad news is tempered by increased sales prices and foreclosure rates that have remained flat.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, San Antonio Metro, Housing, Real Estate, Foreclosures, Bexar County, TX

• Appraisals up average of 4.4 percent

  Apr 17, 2008 | via MySA.com 

  Just how average is your house? About 95 percent of homeowners countywide will have received this year's property appraisal notices by today, and existing home values - on average - have increased by about 4.4 ...

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  Related Topix: Bexar County, TX, Home, Mortgage, San Antonio Metro

• Housing market still is cooling

  Apr 17, 2008 | via MySanAntonio.com 

  San Antonio's housing market continues to weaken, with fewer home sales in March and a higher-than-average number of homes set for the May foreclosure auction.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Bexar County, TX, Anton, TX, Real Estate, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• Gang behind Dallas-Fort Worth home invasions built empire on force, strategy

  4 hrs ago | via Quick 

  They were the Renaissance men of crime, a mixture of white-collar cunning and blue-collar ruthless violence.

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  Related Topix: Fort Worth, TX, Rockwall, TX, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Texas, Denton, TX, Home, Mortgage

• Schnurman: North Texas housing market is still troubled

  9 hrs ago | via Fort Worth Star-Telegram 

  We averted one crisis last week, after the government pledged to keep the mortgage money flowing at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Dallas (University of Texas System), Dallas Metro, University of Texas System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

• Steps to ease housing crisis

  Yesterday | via Houston Community Newspapers Online 

  The housing crisis is eroding the confidence of our nation's homeowners, financial institutions, and investors at an accelerating rate.

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

• Local banking experts say Texas banks are stable

  Yesterday | via News 8 Austin 

  For Banker Bill Lemens, regular check-ups from customers came following the recent failure of California-based IndyMac bank.

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  Related Topix: Texas, Mortgage, Home

• Baylor University Study Shows Depressed Housing Market Demands Change in Lead Generation Techniques

  Friday | via Earth Times 

  WACO, Texas, July 18 Baylor-housing-study WACO, Texas , /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A down housing market calls on real estate agents to change their tactics, according to Dr.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Texas, Marketing, Baylor University, Real Estate

National Headlines

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  5 min ago | via KVML 

  Responding to Americans anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US News, Housing, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage

• - Naked shorting' risky, not sexy

  5 min ago | via Journal Gazette 

  The business world is forever tossing out colorful phrases. Today's is "naked short." Naked shorting is a particularly skeevy kind of short selling.

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• Power to end crisis in hands of lenders

  7 min ago | via LivingstonDaily 

  Mortgage companies were greedy and made mortgages that should not have been made.

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• Faulty borrowers not my problem

  7 min ago | via LivingstonDaily 

  Our legislators, along with print and broadcast media, have overlooked another aspect of the current downturn in real estate values.

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

• Gaming losses could persist

  4 hrs ago | via Mason Valley News 

  July 10 went down as a bad day in Nevada's gaming industry. First came the announcment that state gaming revenue numbers in May dropped 15 percent when compared with the same month in 2007.

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  Related Topix: Gaming, Washoe County, NV, Nevada, Home, Mortgage