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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

• Metro-east home sales down from a year ago

  Thursday | via Belleville News 

  June housing market statistics released today show the metro-east continues to be strained by a troubled economy, joined by the rest of the state of Illinois.

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  Related Topix: Housing, St Clair County, IL, Madison County, IL, Real Estate

• Edwardsville chapter of Habitat ready to build first house

  Friday Jul 11 | via Belleville News 

  The metro-east's newest Habitat for Humanity, based in the Edwardsville and Glen Carbon area, is up and running.

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  Related Topix: Glen Carbon, IL, Edwardsville, IL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Former Maryville man indicted for mortgage fraud

  Jun 20, 2008 | via Belleville News 

  A former Maryville man faces federal charges of mortgage loan fraud after agents said he falsely inflated his income to get a loan on a home in an exclusive neighborhood.

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  Related Topix: Maryville, IL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Financial Services, Madison County, IL, Cahokia, IL

• Alton attorney accidentally sues himself

  Jun 7, 2008 | via Freerepublic.com 

  Alton attorney Emert Wyss thought he could make money in a Madison County class action lawsuit, but he accidentally sued himself instead.

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  Related Topix: Madison County, IL, Wood River, IL, Alton, IL, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Home sales fall throughout state, but not as much in metro-east

  May 10, 2008 | via Belleville News 

  Housing sales fell in Illinois and the metro-east during the first three months of 2008, but analysts expect sales to rebound soon.

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  Related Topix: St Clair County, IL, Housing, Madison County, IL, Real Estate, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• Wells Fargo paddles while other banks sink

  1 hr ago | via Chicago Tribune 

  As a journalist who covered many financial-institution failures first-hand in "the good old days," the recent seizure of IndyMac Bancorp by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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  Related Topix: Financial Services, Wells Fargo , Banking, Illinois, Home, Mortgage

• Obama: Adoration abroad, backlash at home?

  9 hrs ago | via Free Republic 

  He stood in the shadow of the Temple of Hercules, held forth at the Elyse Palace and convened a one-man news conference here on Saturday outside No.

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  Related Topix: Illinois, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Foreclosures, Barack Obama, US Senate, Illinois Government, Democrat

• Obama to NYT: - A Week of Great Press' but - We Don't BUY Our Own Hype'

  16 hrs ago | via TheBlueSheet 

  In an interview with the New York Times' excellent Jeff Zeleny , Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., says he's not "measuring the drapes" for the Oval Office, and that "we don't buy our own hype." He discussed the risks ...

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  Related Topix: Publishing, New York Times, Illinois, Illinois Government, Foreclosures, US Politics, John McCain, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

• Blago Calls On Bush To Sign Housing Package

  18 hrs ago | via Cbs2chicago.com 

  Governor Rod R. Blagojevich today sent a letter to President Bush calling on him to quickly sign the Housing and Economic Stimulus Package which will provide more than $500 million in federal aid to support tax ...

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  Related Topix: George Bush, US News, Illinois, Illinois Government, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage

• Collar counties' sales, median home prices up in June

  Yesterday | via Courier News 

  Home sales in the collar counties picked up in June from May sales figures, and the median sale prices edged up as well, according to the Illinois Association of Realtors' latest report.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Illinois, Real Estate

National Headlines

• Affordable oasis near the sea

  3 min ago | via San Francisco Chronicle 

  Turning south onto Highway 1 from Skyline Boulevard, the road climbs to the top of a hill and then - like a rollercoaster after clanking its way slowly to its summit - plunges into Pacifica.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage

• U.S. Congress approves wide-ranging housing rescue bill,

  4 min ago | via VietNamNet 

  The U.S. Congress approved on Saturday a wide-ranging housing rescue bill that will offer up to 300 billion U.S. dollars in assistance to troubled mortgage giants and homeowners.

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  Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, George Bush, 2008 Presidential Election

• Reverse mortgage leaves borrower stunned and stuck

  4 min ago | via Las Vegas Review Journal 

  Realtor Dave Berard, left, explains the terms of a reverse mortgage to William Lancaster in Lancaster's east Las Vegas home on July 17.

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  Related Topix: Social Security, Personal Finance, Las Vegas, NV, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage

• Economy Class

  4 min ago | via Journal Gazette 

  Forget leading economic indicators, corporate quarterly earnings, record-low home equity, record-high mortgage defaults and all the rest of it.

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  Related Topix: Financial Markets, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Stuck in the middle: Renters swept up in wave of foreclosures

  5 min ago | via New Haven Register 

  Aurea Ortiz, a renter on Sedgewick Street in Bridgeport, is in danger of being evicted from her home because the building is being foreclosed.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Bridgeport, CT, Bridgeport Metro, New Haven Metro, New Haven Metro, New Haven, CT