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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

• People lined up to get mortgage help

  6 hrs ago | via ABC7 - KGO-TV 

  Dozens of desperate people, trapped in subprime mortgages, waited in line to find a way to keep their homes.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Antioch, CA, Foreclosures, Contra Costa County, CA

• Bay Area home prices drop

  14 hrs ago | via Pleasant Hill Record 

  Bay Area home prices continued to spiral downward in June due to a combination of sellers settling for less, more aggressively-priced foreclosures and sales activity increasing in less-expensive inland areas.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Housing, Stockton, CA, Stockton Metro, Contra Costa County, CA, San Francisco County, CA

• Housing crisis hits East Contra Costa County tax rolls the hardest

  15 hrs ago | via East Bay Business Times 

  Contra Costa County and the cities of Antioch, Brentwood and Oakley will take what could be the region's biggest tax hit from declining property values.

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  Related Topix: Antioch, CA, Oakley, CA, Contra Costa County, CA, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Foreclosures

• West Nile Virus spraying started in Antioch and comes 2 months earlier than last year.

  Thursday | via KGO 

  All the foreclosures are causing another problem with not only empty homes, but abandoned pools.

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  Related Topix: Contra Costa County, CA, Foreclosures, Health, West Nile Virus

• Bay Area median home price falls below $500,000

  Monday Jul 14 | via East Bay Business Times 

  The Bay Area median home price slipped to $485,000 in June, the first time in more than four years it was below a half-million dollars, according to figures released Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Contra Costa County, CA, Housing

Regional Headlines

• Inland rents start to level off, report says

  9 hrs ago | via The Press-Enterprise 

  After coping with years of strong rent growth, Inland Southern California apartment dwellers are getting relief.

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  Related Topix: California, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, Housing, UC Riverside, University of California System, San Bernardino, CA

• Calif. To Be Hit Hard Among Nation's 1 Million Foreclosures

  11 hrs ago | via KNBC Los Angeles Channel 4 

  A forecast released Friday has predicted that 1 million homes will be in foreclosure nationwide by the end of the year. 2 comments

  Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Home Listing

• Solar-powered homes give builder an edge

  12 hrs ago | via Lake Elsinore Valley News 

  Challenged with selling new homes in a tough residential real estate market, Woodside Homes has partnered with solar panel giant SunPower Corp., Southern California Edison and the makers of energy-efficient ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Energy, California, Temecula, CA

• No housing bubble in Canada: Flaherty

  12 hrs ago | via National Post 

  Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty shrugged off housing worries in Canada Wednesday, saying there is no bubble and that the subprime-mortgage woes crippling financial institutions in the United States are ...

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  Related Topix: Commerce (Texas A&M University System), Texas A&M University System, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

• Starbucks closures heaviest in California, Florida, Texas

  18 hrs ago | via WNED.org 

  California, Florida and Texas, the U.S. states with the most Starbucks Corp stores, will see the most shuttered as the coffee chain axes more than 600 underperforming outlets in the coming year.

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  Related Topix: Drink, Coffee, Restaurant Management, Starbucks, California, Laguna Beach, CA, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Faith, trust in God is good for community

  4 min ago | via The Leaf Chronicle 

  I'm responding to the article dated June 29, 2008, "Local industry a big deal to Little." First of all, I would like to say in the rise of the real estate market there was one good thing I found when moving to ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Clarksville, TN, Opinion

• Letter: Council decisions

  3 hrs ago | via Atwater Signal 

  Editor: After reading Stuart Rawling's letter of July 11, I would also like to add some of my additional concerns regarding the City Council and its decisions.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Welcoming foreclosure

  1 min ago | via Dispatch.com 

  Ralph Stover has good credit and a steady job. But he took out a risky interest-only first mortgage and a second mortgage to buy a new 1,900-square-foot condominium in 2003 with no money down.

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

• Freddie Mac readies its stock plan

  6 min ago | via The Herald 

  Freddie Mac, the troubled mortgage-finance giant, on Friday took a major step with the Securities and Exchange Commission toward selling billions of dollars of stock.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Securities and Exchange Commission

• Seven Days, Seven Projects for a Kitchen that Sells

  24 min ago | via Tideland News 

  In today's market, selling a home involves much more than posting a "for-sale" sign in the yard.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Construction