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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

• Local housing market holding on

  Jun 17, 2008 | via Business Pulse of Skagit County 

  Skagit County's housing market is in better shape than many places around the nation, according to recent figures.

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  Related Topix: Skagit County, WA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Mortgage charges against Bellingham couple are dropped

  May 10, 2008 | via Bellingham Herald 

  Skagit judge says evidence was wrongly obtained ` JOHN STARK *Beta Criminal charges have been dropped against a Bellingham couple who were charged with felonies in April 2007 in connection with what state ...

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  Related Topix: Skagit County, WA, Bellingham Metro, Mortgage, Bellingham, WA, Personal Finance

• Home sales, prices fall sharply in April

  May 6, 2008 | via Anacortes American 

  "For sale" signs like this one off East Broadway in Mount Vernon remain plentiful throughout Skagit County, as median prices for local homes fell by double-digits compared to last April and sales activity ...

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  Related Topix: Mount Vernon, WA, Housing, Skagit County, WA, Real Estate

• Real estate expo draws big crowd

  Mar 20, 2008 | via Anacortes American 

  About 400 people attended the first Anacortes Real Estate Expo March 8 at the NWESD building.

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  Related Topix: Skagit County, WA, Anacortes, WA, Real Estate

• How much more for education?

  Feb 8, 2008 | via Anacortes American 

  Bond request has voters evaluating costs, benefits After the school bond failed last April, Doug Thurber thought the district should have lowered the price tag - ' not raised it.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Skagit County, WA, Anacortes, WA

Regional Headlines

• Treasury Notes Drop on Stock Gains, Outlook for Wider U.S. Budget Deficit

  Yesterday | via Bloomberg 

  Treasury 10-year notes fell for a second day as stocks advanced and a government rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spurred concern the budget deficit will grow.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Washington, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

• Real Estate Tourists Venture Out on "Foreclosure Safari"

  Sunday Jul 20 | via KIMA 

  It's a safari unlike any you've seen before-- it's in your neighborhoods. More than 40 people took a bus tour of foreclosed homes around the Tri-Cities Saturday.

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

• Bush claims privilege to withhold CIA leak records

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Tri-cityherald.com 

  President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 15, 2008, where he called on Congress to move quickly to put into force legislation designed to prop up mortgage ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae, George Bush, Washington, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Top Story: Plame Games Continue: Bush Claims Executive Privilege On CIA Leak

  Thursday Jul 17 | via ABC News 

  The Associated Press 47 comments President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 15,... President Bush gestures in the briefing room of the White House in ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Financial Services, Personal Finance, Fannie Mae, Washington, George Bush, US News, State of the Union

• Law skewed in favor of builders

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

  For the past two years, I've offered a bill in the state Senate that attempts to level the playing field between home buyers and builders.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Thurston County, WA, Olympia Metro, Olympia, WA, Washington, Opinion

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

  4 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