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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

• Bragging heights

  Apr 20, 2008 | via The Morning Call 

  When Daniel McGinn asked his parents the square footage of his childhood home -- a center-hall Colonial built in 1929 in Washington, N.J. -- neither could answer.

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  Related Topix: Washington, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Housing, Foreclosures

• Burzichelli, Schaer Bill Seeking to Rein-In 'Wild West' Rent-to-Own Housing Market Advances

  Mar 3, 2008 | via PoliticsNJ 

  Legislation Assemblymen John J. Burzichelli and Gary S. Schaer sponsored to better protect consumers from abusive practices in the unregulated rent-to-own housing market was released today from the Assembly ...

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

• First Hope's assets rise while profit shrinks

  Jan 18, 2008 | via The Jersey Journal 

  First Hope Bank reported a smaller profit in 2007 while its assets rose. The owner of six branches in northwest New Jersey earned $519,000 in the fourth quarter and $2.1 million for the full year, according to ...

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  Related Topix: Hope, NJ, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• Developers win, taxpayers lose in affordable housing bill

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Hillsborough Beacon 

  It will be a classic photo op. Seated at a table in Mount Laurel today , ready to sign the most far-reaching legislation in the history of New Jersey housing policy, Gov.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Mount Laurel, NJ, New Jersey Government, New Jersey, Opinion

• DCA Awards $52M in Housing Funds

  Thursday Jul 17 | via GlobeSt.com 

  The New Jersey Department of Community Affairs has awarded a total of $52.3 million in affordable housing funds to support development of that product across the state.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Camden County, NJ, New Jersey, Jersey City, NJ, Camden (Rutgers University), Somerdale, NJ

• Experts forecast a recession

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Asbury Park Press Online 

  New Jersey's economy, struggling with soaring energy costs and a faltering housing market, is headed for a mild recession that will last until 2010, Rutgers University researchers said Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Ocean County, NJ, Housing, New Jersey, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Domenic Gatto has 1-shot lead at New Jersey Open

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Daily Record 

  DEMAREST -- Amateur Domenic Gatto of Eagle Oaks shot a 3-under 69 and took a one-stroke lead after the first round of the 88th New Jersey State Golf Association Open Championship on Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Demarest, NJ, New Jersey, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Monroe Township, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ

• U.S.: Heavy rains complicate Calif. firefighting efforts

  Monday Jul 14 | via NJ Biz 

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  Related Topix: New Jersey, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Home, Mortgage, Governors State University

National Headlines

• Governor needs to work with Pelosi to save Medi-Cal

  5 min ago | via San Jose Mercury News 

  If Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger wants to save health care coverage for poor and disabled Californians, he should get House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the phone - and soon.

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  Related Topix: Elderly, Family, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Nancy Pelosi, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Politics, Opinion

• Loan program may help borrowers in trouble

  6 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  Although it has hundreds of pages and dozens of separate initiatives - including revamping federal oversight of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - the centerpiece is a $300 billion program designed to ...

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

• Editorial: Skeptical eyes on reverse mortgages

  7 min ago | via Star Tribune 

  Swanson, FBI are right to urge caution. Last update: July 19, 2008 - 5:08 PM A NEW MARKET "You have a lot of unemployed mortgage people, brokers, bankers who are in trouble, looking for the next big profit ...

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  Related Topix: Health, AARP, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  7 min ago | via Athens Banner-Herald 

  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

• Realtors Get Creative During Summertime Sales Blues

  8 min ago | via Banker & Tradesman 

  Boston-based Charlesgate Realty Group recently had a catered open house for 290 Marlborough St.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Back Bay (Boston, MA), Boston, MA