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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

• Expert: Valley is in a recession

  Yesterday | via Desert Sun 

  The Desert Sun's Economic Index shows the Coachella Valley economy is in recession, a Chapman University economist said after analyzing first-quarter data.

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  Related Topix: San Bernardino County, CA, Riverside County, CA, Foreclosures, Housing

• The sad state of America: This is independence?

  Friday Jul 4 | via Desert Sun 

  Today is the Fourth of July. So what? Yesterday was the third of July. Today is really Independence Day.

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  Related Topix: Life, Holidays, 4th of July, Home, Mortgage

• Bad news for renters

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via San Bernardino County Sun 

  Rental prices for single-family homes keep climbing in the Inland Empire, and depending on the unit's size, landlords are lifting rents higher than the rate of inflation.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

• Foreclosures selling fast

  Monday Jun 30 | via The Daily Transcript 

  Some of the most expensive real estate in the country has become more affordable as foreclosed homes across San Diego and Riverside counties are being priced to sell, according to Rick Hoffman, president of ...

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, San Diego County, CA, Riverside County, CA, San Diego Metro

• Sweetheart loans taint Congress

  Monday Jun 30 | via Bangor Daily News 

  Angelo Mozilo was already well known in financial circles as chief executive of the beleaguered Countrywide Financial Corp., the nation's largest mortgage lender and a major loser in the deepening credit ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Sun Valley, ID, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• California's fiscal woes largely of its own making

  1 hr ago | via Los Angeles Times 

  As Californians brace for big reductions in government services, the possibility of tax hikes and a long summer of budget bickering, they may be under the impression that everyone else is slogging through the ...

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

• Californians feel pinch--and pinch pennies

  17 hrs ago | via McClatchy DC 

  Skyrocketing gas prices have collided with layoffs, foreclosures and food costs to change the way we live in everyday ways.

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  Related Topix: California, Foreclosures

• Good food gives chef satisfaction

  Yesterday | via Hattiesburg American 

  Pilgrimages are typically once-in-a-lifetime events. If one is lucky he or she might get to make two or three pilgrimages over the course of their life.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

• Builder incentives: Just marketing, or the real deal?

  22 hrs ago | via KCPQ 

  Most new-home buyers find it hard to resist the lure of builder incentives -- paid closing costs, an allowance for free upgrades at the design center or interest-rate buy-downs. But are they really worth it? ...

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  Related Topix: Marketing, California, Foreclosures, Construction, William Lyon Homes, Home Listing, Home

• Another 'gimmick'

  23 hrs ago | via Fresno Bee 

  Governor's lottery plan gains few defenders. There's not much good news at the moment about the state budget -- it's overdue, as usual; there's no sign of agreement anytime soon; no permanent fix is in sight -- ...

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  Related Topix: California, California Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Opinion

National Headlines

• Buffalo Ranks High in Big Cities with Low Rent

  17 min ago | via Br city 

  Renting homes and apartments is becoming more popular nationwide due to stricter rules in obtaining a mortgage.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Online Newspaper

  19 min ago | via The Bangladesh Observer 

  NNN: We Make Newspapers National. One Stop Access to Major USA Papers in Print and Online .

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Most folks in Otisville understand change

  24 min ago | via Recordonline.com - The Times Herald-Record 

  We are working stiffs who wonder how on earth we will pay for gas, mortgages and heat.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Orange County, NY, Otisville, NY, Middletown, NY

• Housing market in Welsh town shows wider woes

  26 min ago | via Arizona Daily Star 

  During a bustling lunch hour in this Welsh commuter town, 25-year-old Richard Williams is one of the few who pause to look at properties for sale in a real-estate agent's window - and he isn't buying.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Las Vegas, NV, Real Estate, Home Listing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Chesapeake makes four major land buys in area

  33 min ago | via Fort Worth Star-Telegram 

  Fort Worth-based Vintage Capital Partners has sold nearly 15 of the 20 acres that it bought along White Settlement Road and Nursery Lane to a Virginia investment firm, which then flipped it to a division of ...

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  Related Topix: Wichita Falls Metro, Wichita Falls, TX, Housing, Dean, TX, Horseshoe Bay, TX