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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

• Sacramento Natomas Area Real Estate - Sales Up 130% With Heavy Competition

  14 hrs ago | via Sacramento Real Estate Blog 

  Sacramento's Natomas area - which consists of the areas 95833, 95844, 95835, 95836, and 95837 - is one area that's experienced a large number of foreclosures, and where as a result, prices have fallen hard and ...

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  Related Topix: Sacramento, CA, Sacramento Metro, Foreclosures, Sacramento County, CA, Events

• Coming Up on Five Years

  Tuesday | via Sacramento Real Estate Blog 

  I thought I'd start reflecting a bit on the forthcoming birthday of this blog. On July 27th, this blog will turn five years old, making it the oldest real estate blog in Sacramento, and one of the older real ...

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• Calling The Bottom

  Monday Jul 21 | via Sacramento Real Estate Blog 

  The other day I got an email from a colleague, Rebekah Schroeder, who has a nice blog about real estate in Truckee that she launched this year.

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  Related Topix: Folsom, CA, Truckee, CA, Sacramento County, CA, Foreclosures, Events

• Manteca couple looks for guidance as they plot their financial future

  Sunday Jul 20 | via Stockton Record 

  Rob and Tricia Baker could be the poster couple for middle-class families living in the San Joaquin Valley.

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  Related Topix: Manteca, CA, Family, Teenagers, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing

• Ode de Siren

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Bifurcate In The Road 

  Living in this area here, well I guess it goes under "one of life's experiences". It sure was not in anyones plans to live in the noise jungle.

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Regional Headlines

• Report: Grand jury investigating subprime lenders

  56 min ago | via The Record 

  A federal grand jury reportedly is investigating the nation's largest subprime mortgage lenders, Countrywide Financial Corp., New Century Financial Corp.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Countrywide Financial, Home, Mortgage, California

• Don't Let Them Slash Your Credit-Card Limits

  3 hrs ago | via WTVF Nashville 

  As big banks such as Wachovia, Citigroup and Bank of America continue to post multimillion-dollar writedowns to cover mortgage loan losses and other bad investments, credit-card holders are increasingly getting ...

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

• Resets begin peaking on subprime loans

  4 hrs ago | via Ledger Dispatch 

  The number of homeowners facing an increase in their subprime adjustable-rate mortgage payments will peak this summer, testing the efforts of lenders and others to keep those people out of foreclosure and ...

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

• Subprime Today: National City posts record loss

  8 hrs ago | via MarketWatch 

  Each morning, Subprime Today provides a summary of MarketWatch's financial coverage as well as stories from other news outlets, providing links to those original articles.

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  Related Topix: National City Corporation, Banking, Financial Services, MarketWatch, Startups, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, California

• Focus on foreclosures

  10 hrs ago | via San Bernardino County Sun 

  Help may be on the way for homeowners, banks and communities hit hard by the mortgage crisis after the House of Representatives approved a relief package on Wednesday. 1 comment

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National Headlines

• Sales of Existing Homes Nonexistent

  2 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

  2 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

  2 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

  2 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

  2 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