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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

• ARNOLD: McCaskill to sponsor foreclosure clinic

  Jun 10, 2008 | via Wentzville Journal 

  With nearly 20,000 Missourians expected to lose their homes by the end of 2009, U.S. Sen. 9 comments

  Related Topix: Jefferson County, MO, Arnold, MO, US Politics, US News, Claire McCaskill, US Senate, Democrat, Foreclosures

• Cedar Hill: Flood buyouts to proceed

  May 27, 2008 | via Wentzville Journal 

  Although Tom Lyons' home in Stovesand Subdivision in Cedar Hill didn't fare as bad in the flood waters as his neighbors' homes, he will still be moving out of harm's way.

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  Related Topix: Cedar Hill, MO, FEMA, US News, Home, Mortgage

• St. Louis Real Estate-Market Watch April 20th, 2008

  Apr 20, 2008 | via St. Louis Real Estate Voice 

  St. Louis Real Estate Market Watch by Art Wagner @ Keller Williams Realty Southwest, Sunset Hills, Mo.

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  Related Topix: Sunset Hills, MO, Real Estate, Jefferson County, MO

Regional Headlines

• Zweifel launches first television ad

  Friday | via The Turner Report 

  Democratic State Treasurer candidate Clint Zweifel has become the first candidate for that office to launch a television ad campaign this year.

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  Related Topix: Missouri Government, Missouri, Healthcare Law, Law, Mortgage, Home

• Economy not looking so bad, as viewed from the farm

  Sunday Jul 20 | via Tuscola County Advertiser 

  The U.S. housing crisis looks pretty distant when viewed from the cornfields of middle America, although land values pushed up by record commodity prices also evoke past booms that ended in bust.

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  Related Topix: Missouri, Home, Mortgage

• Matthew Wilson Learns His Fate

  Friday Jul 18 | via MyFox St. Louis 

  Matthew Wilson convicted of restraining, robbing and sexually abusing a real estate agent last year in St.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Missouri

• Springfield hosts Missouri Association of REALTORS® meeting

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Springfield News Leader 

  REALTORS from all over Missouri traveled to Springfield for the Missouri Association of REALTORS Quarterly Business Conference June 24 through June 26.

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  Related Topix: University of Illinois System, Springfield Metro, Springfield, MO, Missouri, Real Estate, Foreclosures

• Mortgage Meltdown

  Monday Jul 14 | via KMIZ 

  Mortgage buyers Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are still working to escape the fate fellow lender IndyMac suffered Friday.

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

National Headlines

• Congress passes mortgage aid bill

  3 min ago | via North County Journal 

  It took fears of a market collapse to push President George W. Bush and Congress to compromise on election-year mortgage help for struggling homeowners.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Housing, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Lawsuit dropped over SoCal congresswoman's home

  5 min ago | via Fox News 

  A man who paid $388,000 for a congresswoman's home dropped a lawsuit that claimed she got special treatment when a bank rescinded the foreclosure, it was reported Saturday.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Financial Services, Banking, Washington Mutual, Home, Mortgage, Housing

• Raise a glass of best Chateau Sucker

  6 min ago | via Irish Independent 

  Frankly, I've been getting tired of all the bad news. Every day brings new reports of job losses, price increases, industrial collapse, increasing debt, stock exchange plunges, pension erosion and general ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Train Disaster, Opinion

• US shuts down two more banks

  8 min ago | via Times of Oman 

  WASHINGTON: The US Treasury has shut down two affiliated western banks as the impact of the US real estate crash rolls through the country's financial institutions.

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  Related Topix: Reno, NV, Financial Services, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• A healthy market

  3 hrs ago | via The Daily Advertiser 

  The home buying boom in Lafayette is leveling off, and with national stories of lending disasters and foreclosures tempering the market, local builders are trying to assure potential buyers.

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  Related Topix: Home Buying, Home, Baton Rouge, LA, Mortgage, Foreclosures, Lafayette, LA