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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

• Copper theft is taking a toll on neighborhoods

  Apr 24, 2008 | via STLtoday 

  Last month, Michael Smith stopped by a house he's rehabbing in the Benton Park West neighborhood of south St.

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  Related Topix: Flordell Hills, MO, Foreclosures, St. Louis, MO, St Louis County, MO

• Payback: Laura Smith blew the whistle on a county sheriff's...

  Wednesday Jul 2 | via Riverfront Times 

  With her straight brown hair and designer shades, Laura Smith looks more like a member of the Junior League than a court-appointed strongman.

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  Related Topix: Kirkwood, MO, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, St Louis County, MO

• Advertising Savants Inc.

  Monday Jun 30 | via St. Louis Business Journal 

  Solar Night Industries Inc. , a local money-losing penny-stock company, has gone out of business after one of its largest shareholders and financial backers foreclosed on all its assets.

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  Related Topix: Orlando Metro, Orlando, FL, Foreclosures, Science / Technology, Alternative Energy

• Condo minimum: Luxury condo sales down 66%

  Sunday Jun 29 | via St. Louis Business Journal 

  With more than three dozen condos priced above a half-million dollars for sale, Craig Saur is painfully aware of the sales slump that has plagued the luxury condo market so far this year.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Clayton, MO

• The 411 on foreclosures

  Saturday Jun 28 | via STLtoday 

  After two hours on a podium Saturday, listening to lots of talk about foreclosures, Karen Wallensak walked to the microphone and ordered the audience to stand up.

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  Related Topix: Fenton, MO, Foreclosures, St Louis County, MO, US Politics, US News, Claire McCaskill, US Senate, Democrat

Regional Headlines

• Matthew Wilson Learns His Fate

  17 hrs ago | via MyFox St. Louis 

  Matthew Wilson convicted of restraining, robbing and sexually abusing a real estate agent last year in St.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Missouri

• Springfield hosts Missouri Association of REALTORS® meeting

  Thursday | via Springfield News Leader 

  REALTORS from all over Missouri traveled to Springfield for the Missouri Association of REALTORS Quarterly Business Conference June 24 through June 26.

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  Related Topix: University of Illinois System, Springfield Metro, Springfield, MO, Springfield (University of Illinois System), Missouri, Real Estate, Foreclosures

• Mortgage Meltdown

  Monday Jul 14 | via KMIZ 

  Mortgage buyers Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are still working to escape the fate fellow lender IndyMac suffered Friday.

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

• Belgian brewer InBev to buy Anheuser-Busch for $52B

  Monday Jul 14 | via Earthlink 

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Missouri, The College of New Jersey, The College of Wooster

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Missouri Storm Victims

  Monday Jun 30 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to seven storm-ravaged counties in Missouri and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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

National Headlines

• Lawmaker: Extend mortgage protection for vets

  7 min ago | via MilitaryCity.com 

  Two projects aimee at protecting veterans with adjustable rate mortgages and adjustable hybrid rate mortgages could be extended past the end of this year if Rep.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Life, Veteran Affairs, US Politics, Ginny Brown-Waite, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Foreclosures

• Debt consolidation loans to manage debts easily and intelligently

  2 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  The main reason for such a situation is the high credit card bills, loans, and mortgages, etc.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

• Adverse Credit Remortgage - Refinance Easily

  3 hrs ago | via The Capital Letter 

  This is done mainly to get a new mortgage for a lower rate of interest from a different lender for a better rate.

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

• Robert Shiller on Bubble Thinking

  16 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'

  21 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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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home