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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

• Webinars Help Real Estate Developers and Agents Sell-Out Real Estate Development Projects

  Friday Jul 18 | via PR-inside.com 

  Ocean Springs, Mississippi - The Clara Plummer Group announced today the publishing of www.sellbywebinar.com , a website for developers and real estate agents looking for a resource to help them sell their real ...

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  Related Topix: Ocean Springs, MS, Real Estate, Marketing

• Buy My House! - Part 2

  Saturday Jun 28 | via WLOX-TV Biloxi 

  When selling, homeowners can control two things: the price and condition of their homes.

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  Related Topix: Ocean Springs, MS, Biloxi, MS, Biloxi Metro, Real Estate

• Homeowner Assistance Program Tested In Ocean Springs

  Thursday Jun 26 | via WLOX-TV Biloxi 

  In 2007, the Gulf Coast Business Council created the Renaissance Corporation, a non-profit group charged with creating affordable housing options for south Mississippi hurricane victims.

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  Related Topix: Gulf Park Estates, MS, Ocean Springs, MS, Home, Mortgage

• Average sale price for homes drops

  May 23, 2008 | via Sunherald.com 

  The average sale price for a home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast has dropped as the number of houses sold and new listings have risen within a one-month period.

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  Related Topix: Home Listing, Home, Housing, Real Estate, Ocean Springs, MS

• UK Homebuilders to Follow American Counterparts? - Housing Tracker

  Apr 23, 2008 | via Seeking Alpha 

  "All the homebuilders are on fire; we are all just relentlessly stealing from each other." - ' John Downs, VP of Human Resources at Toll Brothers, said on Sept.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Housing, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• North Mississippi home builder developing Steeplechase near Oxford

  Jan 15, 2007 | via Memphis Business Journal 

  About 80 miles southeast of Memphis is a small Mississippi University town that is booming, and Tommy White wanted to make sure he had a piece of the action with his new Steeplechase development, located ...

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  Related Topix: University, MS, Batesville, MS, University of Tennessee System, Memphis (University of Tennessee System), Housing, Mississippi, Lafayette County, MS

• Down payment aid programs scrutinized

  Sunday Jul 6 | via The Clarion-Ledger 

  Local housing experts say down payment assistance programs aren't the best way to purchase a home and build equity, but they recognize their importance in Mississippi because of residents' low median income.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Home Buying

• Miss. Realtors Required To Disclose Meth Lab Houses

  Saturday Jul 5 | via WAPT.com 

  Mississippi home buyers will soon be able to find out if the house they want to purchase was used as a meth lab.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Real Estate

• Miss., La. To Use Mortgage Licensing System

  Friday Jun 27 | via WAPT 

  Mississippi and Louisiana are among the six states that will start using the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System next Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi Government, Mississippi, Mortgage, Home

• Home sales plummet despite lower prices

  Thursday Jun 26 | via The Mississippi Press 

  From January to May, Jackson County homes sold for an average of 20 percent less compared to that same time period last year, local Realtors and Multiple Listing Service data say.

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  Related Topix: Mississippi, Foreclosures, Latimer, MS, Hurley, MS, Big Point, MS, Wade, MS

National Headlines

• Congress passes mortgage aid bill

  5 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

  7 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

  7 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

  9 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