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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

• First-Time Homebuyers Key to Recovery, Says KB Ceo Jeff Mezger '77

  Mar 2, 2008 | via WGRE-FM Greencastle 

  March 2, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - "KB Home Chief Executive Jeffrey Mezger says he expects low interest rates and falling home prices will soon lure first-time homebuyers into the housing market," reports the ...

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• Home foreclosures on the rise in Putnam County

  Feb 15, 2008 | via Banner-Graphic 

  America's mortgage crisis has hit home. Across the country, 1.6 million borrowers defaulted on their mortgages last year.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Putnam County, IN, Greencastle, IN, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Habitat to host Saturday meeting

  Feb 12, 2008 | via Banner-Graphic 

  The Putnam County Habitat for Humanity will be hosting its annual meeting at 9 a.m. Saturday, Feb.

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  Related Topix: Putnam County, IN, Greencastle, IN, Mortgage, Home

• Homebuilder Doug Smith '85 Discusses Fallout From "Mortgage Meltdown"

  Jan 19, 2008 | via WGRE-FM Greencastle 

  January 19, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - "The last quarter was the most challenging environment since the downturn started in July 2005," Doug Smith, president of Virginia-based homebuilder Miller & Smith and 1985 ...

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• "Another Tough Year for the Homebuilding Industry" Ahead, Says Jeff Mezger '77

  Jan 16, 2008 | via WGRE-FM Greencastle 

  January 16, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - Jeffrey Mezger, CEO of KB Home and 1977 graduate of DePauw University, says 2008 "will be another tough year for the homebuilding industry." Mezger is quoted in an ...

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Regional Headlines

• Recovery takes long-term approach

  Friday | via The Tribune 

  It's been six weeks since floodwaters inundated Jackson County and much of central and southern Indiana, leaving behind a path of costly destruction and scores of homeless residents.

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  Related Topix: Bartholomew County, IN, Seymour, IN, Indiana, Home, Mortgage

• Group may go to court to halt foreclosure sales

  Monday Jul 14 | via WNDU-TV South Bend 

  A national housing activist group is threatening legal action to force Lake County's sheriff to halt the sale of foreclosed properties. 4 comments

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• Dow wobbles but regains feet

  Friday Jul 11 | via IndyStar.com 

  Fears that the nation could slip into recession and drag down Indiana stirred on Friday after oil prices soared on war worries and a key stock market index reeled over concerns about mortgage giants Fannie Mae ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Ben Bernanke, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Indiana

• Central Indiana home sales remain weak in June

  Friday Jul 11 | via The Indianapolis Star 

  Home sales in the Indianapolis area remained weak in June, falling almost 20 percent over the same month a year ago.

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  Related Topix: Indiana, Indianapolis, IN, Housing, Central, IN, Real Estate, Hendricks County, IN

• Many Indiana mortgage brokers face license loss

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Tribune/Sunday Ledger Tribune 

  More than two-thirds of Indiana's mortgage brokerage companies could lose their licenses under a new state law - causing headaches for some potential homebuyers.

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  Related Topix: Indiana, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Jeffersonville, IN

National Headlines

• Report paints gloomy picture

  16 min ago | via Shropshire Star 

  Ask yourself this question: What is Ludlow best known for? Your answer will probably include a few of the following: Fantastic restaurants, a beautiful castle, glorious countryside, vibrant festivals and a rich ...

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• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  18 min ago | via Alaska Journal of Commerce 

  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

• Property cools in capital with glum economy

  20 min ago | via Viet Nam News 

  Certain sectors of the Ha Noi real estate markets have cooled over the past few months as a result of the global economic slowdown, domestic inflation and limited liquidity on the market driven by high interest ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Ha Tay, Vietnam, World News, Ha Noi, Vietnam, Vietnam

• Why would Fed delay revision of rules?

  25 min ago | via Dispatch.com 

  The Federal Reserve Board has signed off on new rules to help the rising tide of mortgage delinquencies by barring lenders from making loans without proof of a borrower's income and requiring lenders to ensure ...

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• No slowdown for the downtown

  27 min ago | via Edmonton Sun 

  As executive director of the Downtown Business Association of Edmonton, it's a given Jim Taylor would be revved up about the city's core.

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  Related Topix: University of Houston System, Downtown (University of Houston System), Housing, Arlington (University of Texas System), University of Texas System, Canada, Edmonton, AB, Alberta, Opinion