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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

• [Sounding Bored] Hiding Behind USPAP To Avoid Getting Sick

  Sunday Jul 20 | via Soapbox 

  Righteous USPAP indignation runs rampant in the appraisal profession and I worry it is leading to our demise as an industry.

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• Condos' developer wants to liquidate

  Friday Jul 11 | via Worcester Telegram & Gazette 

  The developer of the University Park Lofts condominium project has filed a motion in U.S. Bankruptcy Court to convert his Chapter 11 reorganization case to Chapter 7 liquidation.

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  Related Topix: Boston Metro, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Demand spikes at pet food pantries as downturn hurts pets

  Jun 6, 2008 | via Austin American-Statesman 

  The deepening foreclosure crisis also is having an effect By Rodrique Ngowi ASSOCIATED PRESS Saturday, June 07, 2008 FRANKLIN, Mass.

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• Pets: Silent victims of skyrocketing prices

  Jun 6, 2008 | via Hampton Roads Daily Press 

  Earlier this week, the Peninsula Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals animal shelter took in a dog that was a casualty of high gas prices. 9 comments

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• Souring economy puts the bite on pet owners

  Jun 2, 2008 | via NY Daily News 

  Some food pantries have started offering free pet food to help owners keep their animals out of shelters.

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  Related Topix: Social Security, Personal Finance, Franklin, MA, Foreclosures

Regional Headlines

• Mass. woman kills self before home foreclosure: police

  Yesterday | via Slam Sports 

  A 53-year-old wife and mother fatally shot herself shortly after faxing a letter to her mortgage company saying that by the time they foreclosed on her house that day, she would be dead.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Personal Finance, Mortgage, Winter Sports, Curling

• Pond View auction postponed

  Tuesday | via GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA 

  A foreclosure auction of the last, unbuilt piece of Pond View Village - aimed at giving the chief lender a saleable title free of more than $1.5 million owed to contractors for the state and defaulting ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Massachusetts

• Foreclosures continue to climb in Massachusetts

  Monday Jul 21 | via Boston Business Journal 

  New Massachusetts residential foreclosures reached a temporary lull in June because of new regulations forcing a 90-day waiting period.

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• Mass. foreclosures in holding pattern

  Monday Jul 21 | via The Boston Globe 

  Massachusetts foreclosure filings dropped 85 percent in June from a year ago, largely because of a recent change in foreclosure regulations, said ForeclosuresMass.com, a Framingham-based provider of ...

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

• Mass. home foreclosures more than double in May

  Sunday Jul 6 | via EDGEptown.com Style Feed v1.0 

  Home foreclosure deeds more than doubled in Massachusetts last month, although a new state law has yielded a temporary decline in foreclosure petitions, the first step in the process.

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National Headlines

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

  1 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

  2 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

  2 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

  4 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

  5 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