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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

• Mortgage crisis spooking high-end developments

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via International Herald Tribune 

  PARK CITY, Utah : With the developer forced into bankruptcy, Hugh Smith worries about the $1 million he and a partner sunk into bare lots at Promontory, a half-built, sprawling residence club in a post-Olympic ...

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• Mortgage crisis unnerves posh resorts Overbuilt Western area under cloud of defaults

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via Hotels 

  Fort Wayne Journal Gazette June 29, 2008 Sunday Final Edition BUSINESS; Pg. 4H 655 words Mortgage crisis unnerves posh resorts Overbuilt Western area under cloud of defaults Paul Foy Associated Press PARK CITY, ...

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• Mortgage crisis unnerves posh resorts

  Sunday Jun 29 | via Journal Gazette 

  With the developer forced into bankruptcy, Hugh Smith worries about the $1 million he and a partner sunk into bare lots at Promontory, a half-built, sprawling residence club in a post-Olympic town saturated ...

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• Mortgage crisis spooking some high-end developments

  Saturday Jun 28 | via The Post and Courier 

  As Promontory began showing signs of distress a few months ago, Francis Najafi, chief executive of Phoenix-based Pivotal Group, gathered members together in an opulent timber-and-stone clubhouse and said he was ...

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• Local Briefs

  Jun 18, 2008 | via Great Falls Tribune 

  Commercial real estate agents and commercial lenders are invited to attend a gap financing workshop sponsored by the Great Falls Small Business Development Center, the Montana Department of Commerce and the ...

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Regional Headlines

• Bankers survey shows support for mortgage bailout

  Thursday Jul 17 | via KPAX 

  Most rural bank CEOs surveyed in Montana and 10 other states support a federal bailout of mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the event of financial collapse.

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• Mortgage reforms will save Canadians from U.S.-style woes

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Calgary Herald 

  By the upper reaches of the Missouri in Montana, runs an arm of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railway.

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• Regulations needed in nation's lending industry

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Great Falls Tribune 

  Montana Department of Revenue Director Dave Bucks told a legislative panel last week Montana is dodging the national housing crisis.

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• Revenue chief: State dodges housing crisis

  Friday Jul 11 | via Great Falls Tribune 

  HELENA - Wise mortgage decisions and a relatively strong economy have largely kept the state's housing market above national turmoil, the director of the Montana Department of Revenue said Thursday.

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• High-priced oil means it's time to relocate

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via The Billings Outpost 

  Bicycling around town, digging and planting and weeding our garden, not climbing into the car for four whole days, I didn't think once about the price of gasoline.

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National Headlines

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  4 min ago | via WSJV-TV South Bend 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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• Two more U.S. banks fail

  4 min ago | via John Dvorak 

  Federal regulators have closed two small Western banks, bringing to seven the number of U.S. banks that have failed this year.

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  Related Topix: Scottsdale, AZ, Financial Services, Foreclosures, Housing, Home, Mortgage

• Housing Stimulus Package to Stabilize Neighborhoods, Attract New Capital to Communities: LISC

  4 min ago | via The South Mississippi Sun Herald 

  The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 will help stabilize disinvested neighborhoods, offer relief to families stung by the foreclosure crisis and attract new capital to affordable housing developments ...

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• Apartment Industry Commends Congress For Learning From Past Mistakes...

  4 min ago | via The South Mississippi Sun Herald 

  The National Multi Housing Council /National Apartment Association joint legislative program issued the following statement by NMHC/NAA Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Jim Arbury concerning the ...

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• How they voted: Senate roll call on housing bill

  5 min ago | via The Oregonian 

  The 72-13 roll call Saturday by which the Senate passed a bill that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and to prevent mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from failing.

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