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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

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  3 hrs ago | via SiliconValley.com 

  Are Santa Clara County homes affordable? The Square Feet Blog, Friday, July 18. Posted by Sue McAllister: Yes, home prices in many parts of Santa Clara County have fallen.

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  Related Topix: Blog News, Housing, Palo Alto, CA, Los Altos, CA, Cupertino, CA, Santa Clara County, CA

• Silicon Valley home prices slide to 2005 level

  23 hrs ago | via San Jose Mercury News 

  It's a real estate milepost that would have sounded unbelievable just a year ago: One-fifth of the houses for sale in Santa Clara County today are now priced at less than $450,000. And the median price of ...

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• Biz break: Valley home prices, sales down from last year

  Yesterday | via San Jose Mercury News 

  Prices of homes sold last month in Santa Clara County were down 15 percent compared to June 2007, as home-buyers continued to look for bargain prices.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Santa Clara County, CA, Home, Mortgage, Mountain View, CA, Santa Clara, CA

• Valley home prices fell 15 percent in June, sales down 32 percent

  Yesterday | via San Jose Mercury News 

  Prices of homes sold last month in Santa Clara County were down 15 percent compared to June 2007, a real estate information firm reported today, as home-buyers continued to look for bargain prices.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Santa Clara County, CA, Los Gatos, CA, Home, Mortgage, Business News

• Bay Area median price dives below $500K, sales near record low

  Thursday | via San Jose Business Journal 

  The median price paid for a Bay Area home plunged to $485,000 in June, marking the first time in more than four years that it was below the half-million mark, DataQuick Information Systems reported Thursday.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, San Francisco, CA, San Francisco Metro, San Mateo, CA, San Francisco Metro, Santa Clara, CA

Regional Headlines

• Inland rents start to level off, report says

  10 hrs ago | 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

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

  12 hrs ago | via KNBC Los Angeles Channel 4 

  A forecast released Friday has predicted that 1 million homes will be in foreclosure nationwide by the end of the year. 4 comments

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

• Solar-powered homes give builder an edge

  13 hrs ago | 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

• No housing bubble in Canada: Flaherty

  14 hrs ago | via National Post 

  Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty shrugged off housing worries in Canada Wednesday, saying there is no bubble and that the subprime-mortgage woes crippling financial institutions in the United States are ...

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• Starbucks closures heaviest in California, Florida, Texas

  19 hrs ago | via WNED.org 

  California, Florida and Texas, the U.S. states with the most Starbucks Corp stores, will see the most shuttered as the coffee chain axes more than 600 underperforming outlets in the coming year.

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  Related Topix: Drink, Coffee, Restaurant Management, Starbucks, California, Laguna Beach, CA, Foreclosures

National Headlines

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  12 min ago | via Bubble Meter 

  Many culprits have been fingered for the housing crisis we're in today: unscrupulous mortgage lenders, dishonest borrowers, underregulated financial institutions.

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  Related Topix: UC San Francisco, University of California System, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• House prices 'will keep falling'

  17 min ago | via BBC 

  House prices in the UK and the US are likely to fall for another two years, the chairman of one of the world's most powerful banks has warned.

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• Failures of big banks fan fears of Staten Islanders

  21 min ago | via Pennlive.com 

  Fannie Mae headquarters in Washington, D.C. The collapse of a major national bank and growing talk of government bailouts of other financial institutions on the brink have Staten Islanders wondering if their ...

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  Related Topix: Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Deposit, NY

• Suburbs, A Dream Too Real To Live?

  22 min ago | via The Ledger 

  Published: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 6:01 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 19, 2008 at 7:20 a.m. As the housing market implodes and financial institutions struggle, a difficult but necessary societal ...

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  Related Topix: Medicine, Alcoholism, Health, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Another sign

  22 min ago | via Brains and Eggs 

  "A taxpayer voting Barack Obama is like a chicken voting for Colonel Sanders." A number of drivers on Twin City Highway Thursday might have seen this message on the sign in front of Bob Costilow Realtors.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, African-American, Mandeville, LA, Home, Home Selling, Home Listing