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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

• Council refuses Freebery expenses

  Tuesday | via News Journal 

  New Castle County Council voted Tuesday not to give former official Sherry Freebery the $3.7 million she was seeking to cover her legal expenses from a five-year investigation into corruption charges.

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• NCCo to decide if it will pay Freebery

  Monday Jul 21 | via News Journal 

  New Castle County Council will decide today whether to pay former official Sherry Freebery $3.7 million for legal fees stemming from her five-year defense against federal corruption charges.

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• DataQuick Parent Moves into Real Estate Information Services

  Monday Jul 21 | via Housing Wire 

  Canadian-based MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. said on Monday that it had rolled out MDA Lending Solutions, Inc.

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  Related Topix: Retail, Household Products, Media Arts Group, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Aerospace-Defense, Computers, IT Services, Wilmington, DE

• DE--Freebery-Fees

  Thursday Jul 10 | via WMDT-TV Salisbury 

  A New Castle County consultant says the county shouldn't pay $3.7 million in legal fees to former county official Sherry Freebery.

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• Consultant: NCCo shouldn't pay Freebery's legal fees

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via News Journal 

  A special consultant hired by New Castle County recommended the government not pay former official Sherry Freebery the $3.7 million she wants to cover legal fees from her five-year defense against federal ...

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Regional Headlines

• DELAWARE: Foreclosure rate falls

  Friday Jul 11 | via Delaware Coast Press 

  People squinting for any sign of improvement in the battered housing and credit markets were rewarded Thursday with a glimmer of good news.

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  Related Topix: New Castle, DE, Delaware, Foreclosures

• Delaware lacks affordable housing

  Jun 9, 2008 | via The Daily Times 

  DOVER -- It took just a few secondslast week to dispense all the good news from the Delaware Housing Coalition's second annual 'Who Can Afford to Live in Delaware?' report.

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• DELAWARE: Markell offers home loan plan

  Apr 18, 2008 | via The Delaware Wave 

  Darlene Battle sees about four people a day with the same problem: They can no longer make their mortgage payments.

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  Related Topix: Wilmington, DE, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Delaware Government, Delaware, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• A new leader in real estate

  Feb 6, 2008 | via The Daily Times 

  With both parents practicing his trade, residential real estate appraiser Stephen R. Huston could argue that winning the election for Chairman of the Delaware Council on Real Estate Appraisers was genetic ...

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• Homeowners bear brunt of industry slump

  Jan 25, 2008 | via News Journal 

  Norman Harrison has been trying to sell his four-bedroom house in Brandywine Hundred since March. 1 comment

  Related Topix: Sussex County, DE, Housing, Hockessin, DE, Glasgow, DE, Newark, DE, Delaware

National Headlines

• How to save money on your...

  3 min ago | via AdelaideNow... 

  SAVE money? The Murray family has found a way to actually make money from their weekly grocery shop.

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  Related Topix: Australia, Oceania, World News, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Housing woes leave furniture dealers struggling

  3 min ago | via Nashua Telegraph 

  In the furniture business nowadays, even flat sales are considered good. Havertys, Sealy and other major manufacturers have seen sales drop 25 percent or more since last year.

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  Related Topix: Conover, NC, Apex, NC, Cary, NC, Housing

• Raleigh foreclosures up, still better than national rate

  4 min ago | via Wral.com 

  Foreclosures in the City of Raleigh were 64 percent greater in the second quarter of 2008 than in the same period last year.

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  Related Topix: North Carolina, Foreclosures, Housing

• New home sales drop 0.6 percent in June

  4 min ago | via Chico Enterprise-Record 

  Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, more proof that the worst housing slump in decades is getting deeper.

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  Related Topix: Irvine, CA, Foreclosures, Real Estate, Housing, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Homes repossessed for $1000

  5 min ago | via News.com.au 

  AUSTRALIA'S economy is looking even more fragile amid reports that some mortgage lenders are repossessing homes for defaults of as little as $1000. As share investors lost about $40billion yesterday, a major ...

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