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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

• Foreclosures have officials in Scott, Dakota pondering how to help

  Friday Jul 4 | via Star Tribune 

  A grim rise in foreclosures creates challenges for south-metro counties: What to do and at what cost? By DAVID PETERSON and JOY POWELL , Star Tribune staff writers Last update: July 2, 2008 - 11:50 PM Featured ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Dakota County, MN, Farmington, MN, West St. Paul, MN

• Special project: Mortgage Meltdown

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Star Tribune 

  Government officials across the southern metro area are being warned that the home-foreclosure mess is deepening, creating serious questions as to what they can or should do about it in a year when they ...

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  Related Topix: Dakota County, MN, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Scott County, MN, Carver County, MN, Minneapolis, MN

• The war over affordable housing

  Monday Jun 30 | via The Minneapolis-St. Paul Pioneer Press 

  "I just feel so blessed to live here," renter Stephanie Williams said of the affordable town house where she, her husband and 8-month-old son, Chetan, live in Woodbury. 486 comments

  Related Topix: Woodbury, MN, Dakota County, MN, Minneapolis, MN, Housing, Forest Lake, MN

• Weird but True

  Tuesday Jun 24 | via New York Post 

  June 24, 2008 -- Cops in Washington state busted a party crasher based on a single description: Look for the guy with a mullet.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Lakeville, MN

• Two More Homebuilders Go Bust

  Wednesday Jun 18 | via Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis 

  The Wall Street Journal is reporting Two More Builders Buckle . Two more home builders have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the face of declining home sales and troubled credit markets.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Lakeville, MN

Regional Headlines

• Bond insurer MBIA's losses expected to grow

  20 hrs ago | via The Morning Call 

  Q: I am very concerned about my shares of MBIA Inc. What are the prospects? V.R., via the Internet A: The world's largest bond insurer has taken charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Minnesota, Financial Markets

• MBIA Inc. Is Battered By Competition, Subprime Issues

  Friday | via Hartford Courant 

  I am very concerned about my shares of MBIA Inc. What are the prospects? - V.R. , via the Internet T he world's largest bond insurer has taken charges on billions of dollars of exposure to bonds ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Minnesota, Financial Markets

• Good news for health care

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via St. Paul Pioneer Press 

  We break from regularly scheduled programming for this special report: Good news! Competition is improving health care in Minnesota! We refer to the latest report from MN Community Measurement, a nonprofit ... 6 comments

  Related Topix: Housing, Minnesota, Anoka, MN, Opinion

• Builders: Regulations keep suburban home prices unreasonably high

  Tuesday Jul 1 | via St. Paul Pioneer Press 

  Peter Orbidan, the owner of a carpentry company, works on a house in Fieldstone homes, Lakeville, on Thursday, June 12, 2008. 86 comments

  Related Topix: Housing, Minnesota Government, Minnesota

• Number of abandoned pets on the rise

  Monday Jun 30 | via KAAL-TV Austin 

  Whether it's high gas prices or foreclosures, the economy is taking a toll on Minnesotans.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Minnesota

National Headlines

• 15.JUN.08 Moratorium Now Coalition to stop

  4 min ago | via The Michigan Citizen 

  Official town hall meeting to demand passage of SB 1206, which will stop all foreclosures in Mmichigan for two years Saturday, June 14, 2-4 pm, UAW Local 7 2600 Conner Avenue, Detroit At the Town Hall Meeting ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Detroit Metro, Detroit Metro, Detroit, MI

• 18.MAY.08 'Improve your neighborhood'

  6 min ago | via The Michigan Citizen 

  Black Family Development Neighborhood Resource Fair Detroit residents will have the opportunity to learn how to form block clubs, prevent home foreclosure, obtain information on criminal record expungement and ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Detroit Metro, Detroit Metro, Detroit, MI, Wayne County, MI

• Trend toward specializations, relationships with clients

  7 min ago | via The Business Ledger 

  Trend toward specializations, relationships with clients As a result of the nation's economic climate, the legal profession is in a state of flux and experts agree that strengthening relationships with clients ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures

• Washington Report: Nationwide Registration?

  8 min ago | via Realty Times 

  With the Senate poised to pass major housing legislation this week -- even as early as tomorrow -- critics are taking a harder look at some of the bill's lesser-known provisions.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Realty Viewpoint: Discount Broker Leaves Sellers Stranded

  8 min ago | via Realty Times 

  Rumors were flying last week that Iggy's House, a discount broker, is out of business.

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  Related Topix: Burleson, TX, Real Estate