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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

• Applebee's Restaurants Sells Two Memphis Area Locations

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via The Daily News 

  Applebee's Restaurants West LLC has sold two locations currently occupied by Applebee's Neighborhood Bar & Grills to DBAPPLEF LLC.

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  Related Topix: Shelby County, TN, Housing, Memphis, TN, Industrial Machines, Mueller Inds, Metals, Home, Mortgage, Opinion

• Kirby-Raines Self Storage Sells for $1.4 Million

  Monday Jul 21 | via The Daily News 

  Kirby-Raines Self Storage at 6504 E. Raines Road east of Kirby Parkway has sold for $1.4 million.

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• A Time to Chill

  Thursday Jul 17 | via The Daily News 

  POSTER CHILD: The Downtown hot spot Pat O'Brien's figured prominently in second quarter bankruptcy filings.

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  Related Topix: Shelby County, TN, Foreclosures, University of Tennessee System, Memphis (University of Tennessee System), Memphis, TN, Opinion

• Banking Blues

  Thursday Jul 17 | via The Memphis Flyer 

  Bank on it. Take it to the bank. As safe as money in the bank. Keep your valuables in a safety deposit box at the bank.

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  Related Topix: Texas A&M University System, Home, Mortgage, University of Tennessee System, Memphis (University of Tennessee System), Memphis, TN

• Teachers Credit Union hosts home buying workshop

  Jan 10, 2008 | via Tri-State Defender 

  Thinking about buying a new home? Memphis Area Teachers' Credit Union can give you some tips at a Home Buying Education workshop Saturday, Jan.

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

Regional Headlines

• People in Business

  11 hrs ago | via The Tennessean 

  The National Association of Realtors awarded Irene Leonard of the Sumner County office of Bob Parks Realty LLC the designation of Realtor e-PRO. Vanessa Schimmels has joined Village Real Estate Services as an ...

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Marketing, Housing, Tennessee

• RealtyTrac: Memphis No. 25 in foreclosures

  Monday Jul 21 | via Memphis Business Journal 

  Memphis ranks 25th in foreclosures and Tennessee ranks 13th, according to second quarter data RealtyTrac Inc.

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• HOUSING: May 2008 foreclosures in your area

  Wednesday | via WBIR-TV Knoxville 

  As East Tennesseans struggle to make ends meet in a tough economy, some are losing their American Dream.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Tennessee

• First Horizon Execs Trumpet Efforts to Buck Losses

  Tuesday Jul 22 | via The Daily News 

  First Horizon National Corp., the Memphis-based parent company of First Tennessee Bank, has seen more than 50 percent of its share price evaporate since the beginning of this year.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Tennessee, Opinion

• More

  Friday Jul 18 | via The Daily News Journal 

  Unemployment in Tennessee edged up by one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.5 percent in June compared to a month earlier, keeping the jobless rate here a full percentage point higher than the nation's rate.

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  Related Topix: Law, Employment / Labor Law, Tennessee Government, Tennessee, Knoxville (University of Tennessee System), University of Tennessee System, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush for signature

  5 min ago | via Morris Daily Herald 

  Congress passed the most significant housing legislation in decades Saturday, offering help to struggling homeowners and seeking to stabilize a troubled housing market that has dragged down the economy.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage

• Bill heads to Bush for signature

  5 min ago | via WWLP 

  The Senate has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at helping thousands of struggling homeowners fight off foreclosure.

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

• Federal Regulators Close Two More Banks

  6 min ago | via X101.5 

  Federal regulators have closed two banks in the West, saying they were undercapitalized due to the poor performance of home mortgage loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Reno Metro, Reno, NV

• U.S. Congress approves massive housing bill

  6 min ago | via The Globe and Mail 

  The bill was approved by the Senate in a 72-13 vote. It was passed by the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Housing, George Bush, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, US News, US Politics, Home, Mortgage

• Provisions of housing-mortgage relief bill

  6 min ago | via Buffalo News 

  The housing bill that Congress passed Saturday and sent to President Bush would: -Give the Federal Housing Administration $300 billion in new lending authority and relax standards to provide affordable, ...

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