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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

• TF Financial Corporation Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results and Quarterly Dividend

  7 hrs ago | via PrimeNewswire 

  TF Financial Corporation today reported net income of $1,184,000 for the second quarter of 2008, compared with $1,037,000 for the second quarter of 2007.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Banking, Financial Services

• Buck County

  8 hrs ago | via Baker County Standard 

  Free Access to the Pennsylvania MLS. Run and save your own searches using our unique mapping tool to find all Homes For Sale in The Bucks County Pennsylvania area.

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  Related Topix: Bucks County, PA, Foreclosures

• Your Home's Worth

  23 hrs ago | via NBC 10 

  We've been talking about the downsides of the economy for months. Especially the housing market! Which we all know has taken a big hit nationwide.

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  Related Topix: Richlandtown, PA, Bucks County, PA, Collegeville, PA, Housing, Montgomery County, PA

• Homeowners in trouble find help is out there

  Sunday Jul 20 | via Courier Times News 

  Local residents in danger of losing their homes to foreclosure spent Saturday listening to and talking with area housing experts about what they need to do to avoid losing their property.

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  Related Topix: Foreclosures, Bucks County, PA

• Bucks looks to update deed-recording process

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Intelligencer News 

  The Bucks County recorder of deeds plans to introduce three programs to streamline the process of recording deeds every time a home is sold or a mortgage refinanced.

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  Related Topix: Bucks County, PA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Social Security

Regional Headlines

• Regional economy shows improvement

  16 hrs ago | via Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 

  Despite weaknesses in parts of the housing and retail sectors, the economy in the Federal Reserve's Fourth District, which includes Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and parts of Kentucky and West Virginia, improved ...

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Mortgage, Home

• Economic Watchdog, July 21

  Monday Jul 21 | via Optionetics 

  The economy might take a backseat to earnings news this week, but there still are several reports that could impact trading.

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  Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Pennsylvania, Financial Markets, Home Selling, Housing

• Dundee Homeowners Choose To Auction House

  Sunday Jul 20 | via KETV 

  Some Omaha homeowners are waiting months to sell their homes, but a family in Dundee intends to sell their in an instant.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Pennsylvania, Home Listing, Home

• State Capitol Roundup for July 18

  Friday Jul 18 | via Tony Phyrillas 

  I thought the Legislature was on its 2-month summer vacation, but it appears some lawmakers are still in Harrisburg.

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  Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government, Home, Mortgage

• Wachovia's Brokerage Inspected by State Regulators in Auction-Rate Probe

  Thursday Jul 17 | via Bloomberg 

  Wachovia Corp. 's securities division was inspected by a team of regulators from more than five states who delivered subpoenas today as part of a probe into the company's sales of auction-rate bonds.

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  Related Topix: Marketing, Advertising, Boston University, Pennsylvania

National Headlines

• The slump persists: Home sales tumble across US

  5 min ago | via KVEW 

  Sales of existing homes tumbled more sharply than expected in June, pushing activity down to the lowest level in more than a decade.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Real Estate, Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance

• Post a comment

  6 min ago | via International Herald Tribune 

  A U.S. geological agency unveiled the largest-ever survey of petroleum resources north of the Arctic Circle.

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  Related Topix: Israel, World News, Middle East, Housing

• Stocks tumble after sales of existing homes fall

  6 min ago | via KVEW 

  Stocks skidded lower Thursday after a steeper-than-expected decline in existing home sales wiped away some of the market's optimism about upbeat earnings reports.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home, Housing, Home Selling

• Home sales at 10-year low, jobless claims jump

  6 min ago | via Reuters 

  Jobless claims jumped and the pace of existing home sales tumbled to a 10-year low as slowing growth hit hiring and a glut of unsold houses weighed on real estate, data released on Thursday showed.

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  Related Topix: Home, Home Selling, Housing, Real Estate, Mortgage, Financial Markets

• Daytona Beach area home sales, prices slide again in June

  7 min ago | via Daytona Beach News-Journal Online 

  Existing home sales in the Daytona Beach area slipped 13 percent in June, when compared to the same period last year, while prices slid another 14 percent, the Florida Association of Realtors reported today.

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  Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Housing, Real Estate