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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

• Dallas-Fort Worth home foreclosure postings jump 24%

  Thursday Jul 17 | via The Dallas Morning News 

  Home foreclosure postings in the Dallas-Fort Worth area have jumped by almost a quarter in the latest filings.

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  Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Addison, TX, Dallas Metro, Foreclosures, Dallas County, TX

• Gang invaded 70 North Texas homes, police say

  Monday Jul 14 | via KVUE 

  Authorities say they have shut down a violent gang responsible for at least 70 home invasions in North Texas, and they are investigating whether some stolen money was later invested in mortgage fraud schemes.

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• Mortgage fraud case has Ellis County link

  Thursday Jun 26 | via The Ellis County Press Online 

  Robert John Mason reportedly pled not guilty to wire fraud last week after a series of state and federal investigations into alleged mortgage fraud.

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  Related Topix: Red Oak, TX, Foreclosures, Ellis County, TX, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Dallas Metro

• Dallas County DA Watkins accuses attorney general of politics in mortgage fraud case

  Jun 23, 2008 | via Dallas Morning News 

  Dallas County District Attorney Craig Watkins and the Texas attorney general's office are at odds over what Mr.

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  Related Topix: Dallas Metro, Dallas, TX, Home, Mortgage, Dallas County, TX

• More of this story

  Jun 5, 2008 | via Midlothian Today 

  News Editor Cedar Hill Independent School District voters could be pulling the lever on a tax increase vote in either October or November.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Education Etc., Cedar Hill, TX, Libraries

Regional Headlines

• Congress approves housing bill

  1 hr ago | via WNED.org 

  The U.S. Congress approved a massive housing market rescue bill on Saturday, offering emergency financing to mortgage titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and setting up a $300-billion fund to help hundreds of ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, Texas, US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, George Bush, Foreclosures

• Housing rescue bill heads to Bush's desk for signature

  5 hrs ago | via Houston Chronicle 

  Texas Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn were among the 13 GOP senators who voted against the emergency housing legislation.

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  Related Topix: Texas, Housing, US Politics, US News, Christopher Dodd, John McCain, Financial Services, Fannie Mae

• How Texas Congress members voted

  5 hrs ago | via Houston Chronicle 

  How the Texas congressional delegation voted on selected issues last week: Senate * 1. Housing rescue: Agreed, 80-13, to debate a House-passed bill that would potentially bail out the housing-finance companies ...

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  Related Topix: US News, Foreclosures, US Politics, John McCain, Texas

• Holding Steady

  Yesterday | via Report news 

  Business YAHOO! Business videos Saturday, July 26, 2008 Year Homes sold Ave. Price Ave.

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• US Congress clears huge housing bill

  11 hrs ago | via The Peninsula 

  WASHINGTON * The US Congress approved a massive housing market rescue bill yesterday, offering emergency financing to mortgage titans Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and setting up a $300bn fund to help hundreds of ...

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  Related Topix: Housing, George Bush, Texas, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News

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

  8 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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• US shuts down two more banks

  10 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