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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

• News in Brief

  14 hrs ago | via The View 

  Mayor makes new appointment to CSC: A longtime member of the Belleville Civil Service Commission recently announced his retirement, City Council members on Monday night OK'd a replacement and reappointed ...

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  Related Topix: Life, Food, Food Festival, Belleville, MI, Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro, Wayne County, MI, Home, Mortgage

• Tax bumps and rolls

  Yesterday | via Metro Times 

  Judging from recent events, you'd think the most pressing issues in the Wayne County treasurer's race involve controversies that date back 30 or 40 years instead of a crisis that is very much in the present and ...

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  Related Topix: Wayne County, MI, Foreclosures, Hamtramck, MI, Opinion

• Metro home sales mixed in June

  Tuesday Jul 8 | via Detroit News 

  Home sales throughout most of Metro Detroit declined slightly in June, but a strong pick-up in Wayne County transactions brought the region an 11.67 percent increase in sales last month compared to a year ago.

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  Related Topix: Farmington Hills, MI, Wayne County, MI, Housing, Livingston County, MI, Detroit Metro, Detroit Metro

• Up To Code

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via National Journal 

  Republican presidential candidate John McCain has taken to linking the GOP's traditional campaign message on taxes with a more immediate theme -- his differences with Democrat Barack Obama -- in a half-joking ...

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Arizona State University, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Wayne County news briefs

  Sunday Jul 13 | via Detroit Free Press 

  The Wayne County Mortgage Foreclosure Prevention Program will host two free workshops to offer legal intervention, as well as counseling about saving for a home near or in foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Wayne County, MI, Foreclosures, Belleville, MI, The College of New Jersey, The College of Wooster

Regional Headlines

• Existing home sales fall 2.6% in June

  13 hrs ago | via Detroit Free Press 

  Home sales continued to decline nationwide in June and inventories rose, the National Association of Realtors reported this morning.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Real Estate, Housing, Home Listing, Michigan

• West Michigan home sellers try different tactics to lure buyers

  8 hrs ago | via Ann Arbor News 

  Redstone Group Sales Consultant Jennifer Krzykwa, center, talks with Ellen and Richard Erdmann, of Grandville, on Wednesday at a wine and art open house at Aberdeen Ridge Condominiums.

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  Related Topix: Grandville, MI, Home Building, Home, Ada, MI, Housing, Michigan, Ottawa County, MI

• Suite Talk July 24, 2008

  11 hrs ago | via Washington Examiner 

  Jonathan L. Kempner, president and CEO of the Mortgage Bankers Association, is stepping down at the end of the year.

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  Related Topix: Michigan, Mortgage, Personal Finance, George Washington University

• Business news briefs

  16 hrs ago | via Clinton County News 

  Independent Bank Corp. swung to a profit during the second quarter. The bank, which has a regional office in East Lansing, reported Wednesday it earned $3.35 million, or 15 cents per share, for the three-month ...

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  Related Topix: Banking, Financial Services, Independent Bank, Home, Mortgage, Michigan

• Housing Crisis Help for MI

  18 hrs ago | via WLNS-TV Lansing 

  A major housing rescue plan that had previously been under a presidential veto threat gets President Bush's stamp of approval and the new law could have a big impact in Mid-Michigan. As Lauren Thompson reports, ...

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

National Headlines

• Sales of Existing Homes Nonexistent

  3 min ago | via Huliq.com 

  Sales of US existing homes fell 2.6% to an annualized rate of 4.86 million from a 4.99 million pace the prior month.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Home Selling, Housing, Real Estate

• Banks step up Fed borrowing, Wall Street passes

  3 min ago | via The Flint Journal 

  Banks stepped up their borrowing over the past week from the Federal Reserve's emergency lending program, while Wall Street firms didn't draw such loans.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Jobless claims jump as housing market gets weaker

  4 min ago | via Marin Independent Journal 

  Two cornerstones of the economy - jobs and housing - sank to new depths Thursday, with unemployment claims bolting higher and home prices recording one of their steepest drops on record.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Foreclosures

• Gloomy day for U.S. markets

  4 min ago | via The Globe and Mail 

  The number of U.S. workers filing new claims for jobless benefits jumped 34,000 last week, the Labor Department said, in part reflecting seasonal volatility typical at this time of year, but also indicating ...

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Home Selling, Stamford, CT, New Haven Metro

• Md. Woman Charged In Tax Scandal

  4 min ago | via NewsChannel 8 

  A real estate agent from Prince George's County has been charged in a scheme that prosecutors believe defrauded the D.C. tax office out of nearly $50 million.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Clinton, MD, University of the District of Columbia