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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

• New Mortgage Regs Tighten Bank Belts

  Sunday Jul 6 | via Http 

  As the pool of homes for sale deepens, the pool of qualified buyers dries up and local bankers say strict new underwriting guidelines from private mortgage insurance companies have exacerbated the situation.

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  Related Topix: Worcester County, MA, Home Listing, Home, Housing, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Gov. Patrick directs $20M toward rescuing homes from foreclosure

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Sentinel & Enterprise 

  Gov. Deval Patrick on Tuesday outlined his plan to provide low-interest loans for private developers to buy up abandoned properties or those at risk of foreclosure and reoccupy them with new homeowners or ... 6 comments

  Related Topix: Fitchburg, MA, Foreclosures, Leominster, MA, Fitchburg Metro

• Five indicted for mortgage fraud

  Saturday Jun 28 | via Telegram & Gazette 

  Two bank employees, one in Worcester, a mortgage broker, an assistant to the broker and a second Worcester man have been indicted on a total of 106 criminal counts following a lengthy state investigation into ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Boston Metro, Home, Mortgage

• Five people indicted in mortgage fraud scheme

  Friday Jun 27 | via Telegram & Gazette 

  WORCESTER, Mass.- Five people have been indicted for allegedly falsifying bank documents to obtain fraudulent mortgage loans.

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• Five indicted in massive mortage fraud scheme

  Friday Jun 27 | via Telegram & Gazette 

  Two bank employees, a mortgage broker, an assistant to the broker, and a Worcester man have been indicted on a total of 106 criminal counts following a lengthy state investigation into what prosecutors allege ...

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

Regional Headlines

• 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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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government

• Mass. foreclosures set another record

  Monday Jun 30 | via Boston Globe 

  Foreclosure deeds in Massachusetts broke another record last month, the Warren Group said today.

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• Mass. exodus mostly a myth

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via Boston Herald 

  Both the Herald and the Globe ran columns based on the study's finding that Massachusetts has a large population loss - and citing that loss as proof that Massachusetts residents generally share the writers' ...

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  Related Topix: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Seattle, WA, Housing, Opinion

• Mass. home sales, prices are still falling

  Wednesday Jun 25 | via Lowell Sun 

  Home sales and median prices continue to decline on a year-over-year basis, but some are starting to see a silver lining to the housing slump.

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  Related Topix: Massachusetts, Massachusetts Government, Housing, Real Estate

• Median sales price falls 9.2 percent

  Monday Jun 23 | via Boston Globe 

  The median selling price in May for single-family homes in Massachusetts fell 9.2 percent to $322,500, compared with $355,000 in May 2007, the Massachusetts Association of Realtors reported today The volume of ...

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National Headlines

• Democratic challenger trails Biggert in funds

  5 min ago | via Lincoln-Way Sun 

  Democrat Scott Harper pushed his second-quarter fundraising above that of his opponent Judy Biggert by loaning himself $50,000. Not counting the loan, the 46-year-old Oxford student received $228,192 in ...

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Illinois, Will County, IL

• Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices

  6 min ago | via The Topeka Capital-Journal 

  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

• Clarkstown offering new incentives to retain volunteers

  4 hrs ago | via Journal News 

  Clarkstown is offering all emergency service volunteers in the town discounted passes to the popular mini-golf course at Germonds Park.

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• Official's son got DSS broker fees, some while working for county

  4 hrs ago | via Journal News 

  MOUNT VERNON - A real estate company run by the son of city marshal and former Democratic boss Serapher Conn-Halevi collected $162,000 in private-vendor fees from the Westchester County Department of Social ...

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

  9 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