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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

• Home prices sliding, but number of sales rising

  Yesterday | via The Modesto Bee 

  Home sales in June continued the trend of recent months, with median prices dropping but the number of sales rising in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.

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  Related Topix: San Joaquin, CA, Merced County, CA, San Joaquin County, CA, Turlock, CA, Real Estate, Home, Mortgage

• Rental market not benefitting from mortgage turmoil in Valley

  Yesterday | via Atwater Signal 

  Record numbers of Valley families may be losing their homes to foreclosure, but they apparently are not moving into vacant apartments.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Merced County, CA, Foreclosures, Stanislaus County, CA, San Joaquin County, CA

• Apartments not renting

  Friday | via The Modesto Bee 

  Record numbers of Northern San Joaquin Valley families may be losing their homes to foreclosure, but they apparently are not moving into the region's apartments.

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  Related Topix: Modesto, CA, Foreclosures, Stanislaus County, CA, Merced County, CA, San Joaquin County, CA

• Foreclosures Lead to Late Tax Payments in Merced County

  Thursday | via ABC30.com 

  This year the property tax delinquency rate was up nearly three percent in Merced County.

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• Homeowners in Merced ranked at the top of nationwide list

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via KSEE24.com RSS Feed 

  A study out of USA Today shows 91% of homes purchased in Merced last year are now worth less, than the money owed on them.

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Regional Headlines

• Special loan programs serve buyers who lack cash

  6 hrs ago | via HeraldTribune.com 

  Published: Sunday, July 20, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Friday, July 18, 2008 at 12:24 p.m. Two little-known federal lending programs may hold the answer for would-be home buyers who don't have two plug ...

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  Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, US News, United States Department of Agriculture, California, Home, Mortgage

• Cash challenged? Cry uncle

  12 hrs ago | via Chicago Tribune 

  Two little-known federal programs may hold the answer for would-be home buyers who don't have money for a down payment or don't have money left after closing to update their properties.

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  Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Home Buying, Home, California, UC Riverside, University of California System, UC San Diego, Mortgage

• Calif. To Be Hit Hard Among Nation's 1 Million Foreclosures

  Yesterday | via NBC Channel 11 

  A forecast released Friday has predicted that 1 million homes will be in foreclosure nationwide by the end of the year. 11 comments

  Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Home Listing

• Inland rents start to level off, report says

  Yesterday | via The Press-Enterprise 

  After coping with years of strong rent growth, Inland Southern California apartment dwellers are getting relief.

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  Related Topix: California, Riverside County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, Housing, UC Riverside, University of California System, San Bernardino, CA

• Solar-powered homes give builder an edge

  Yesterday | via Lake Elsinore Valley News 

  Challenged with selling new homes in a tough residential real estate market, Woodside Homes has partnered with solar panel giant SunPower Corp., Southern California Edison and the makers of energy-efficient ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Energy, California, Temecula, CA

National Headlines

• Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update...

  12 hrs ago | via KXMB-TV Bismarck 

  Obama on Afghanistan...Paulson on banks...Storm update KABUL, Afghanistan Barack Obama says the United States, NATO and Afghanistan must do more to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida. Among other things, the ...

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  Related Topix: World News, Kabol, Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Asia, Home, Mortgage, Weather, Junction City, CA

• Brown pledges aid to Palestinians, calls for settlement freeze

  12 min ago | via The Daily Star 

  OCCUPIED BETHLEHEM: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Sunday pledged new aid to the Palestinians and called for a freeze on Israeli settlement building to bolster the Middle East peace process.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, World News, Palestinian Territories, Middle East, Israel

• Words from the

  17 min ago | via Safehaven 

  "The end is neigh" was what many despondent investors were starting to believe as the past week kicked off with volatile trading amid concerns that US regional bank IndyMac's demise was a harbinger of many more ...

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  Related Topix: Freddie Mac, Financial Services, Fannie Mae, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Treasury Chief Sees 'Months' of Hard Times

  21 min ago | via ABC News 

  The Associated Press 2 comments Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson sought to reassure an anxious public Sunday that the banking system is sound, while also bracing people for more troubled times ahead.

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• US Treasury Secretary: Economic Fundamentals are Sound

  23 min ago | via Voice of America 

  The Bush administration says the U.S. economy will continue to experience slow growth in the months ahead, but is fundamentally sound.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Washington, DC, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance