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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

• Utah: Home-sales numbers show bubble bursting

  14 hrs ago | via Deseret News 

  Home-sales numbers released Wednesday indicate that the Wasatch Front's housing bubble has truly begun to burst: 61 of 81 ZIP codes in four counties saw decreases in median home prices during the second quarter ...

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  Related Topix: Weber County, UT, Real Estate, Davis County, UT, Utah County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT

• Salt Lake County home sales drop steeply, prices decline

  Yesterday | via Salt Lake Tribune 

  Salt Lake County homes sales in the second quarter plummeted 28 percent from the same three-month period last year, while prices slipped 2 percent to $249,000. In all, 2,581 single-family homes changed hands in ...

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• Utah County man pleads guilty to mortgage scam

  Yesterday | via Deseret Morning News 

  A member of a Utah County group accused of conspiring in an $18 million mortgage-fraud scheme pleaded guilty to a charge in federal court Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Utah County, UT, Federal Prisons

• Man pleads guilty in Utah County mortgage fraud case

  Yesterday | via Deseret News 

  A member of a Utah County group accused of conspiring in an $18 million mortgage fraud scheme, pleaded guilty to a charge in federal court Tuesday.

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home, Federal Prisons, Utah County, UT, Provo, UT

• Loan cap hurts county

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Deseret Morning News 

  Utah County homeowners may have inadvertently been shortchanged in this year's economic-stimulus package, due to standards for home loans that were revised earlier this spring.

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  Related Topix: George Bush, Freddie Mac, Financial Services, Utah County, UT, Wasatch County, UT, Salt Lake County, UT, Home, Mortgage

Regional Headlines

• Utah job growth falls below 1%

  Wednesday Jul 16 | via Salt Lake Tribune 

  Job losses in the residential real-estate industry continue to take their toll on Utah's economy, pushing employment growth last month below the 1 percent mark for the first time in five years.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, Home, Home Selling, Foreclosures, Housing, Sundance Film Festival, Utah Government, Utah

• Utah job growth at 5-year low as construction work dips

  Tuesday Jul 15 | via Salt Lake Tribune 

  Employment growth in Utah has slowed to a crawl, dipping below the 1 percent mark last month for the first time in five years.

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  Related Topix: Utah Government, Utah, Housing

• Entrepreneurial Spirit Key to Utah Valley's Success, Experts say

  Friday Jul 11 | via Utah Business 

  Slowing commercial and residential real estate markets, sluggish tourism levels and transportation troubles are some of the issues facing Utah Valley, as well as much of the state.

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  Related Topix: Housing, Brigham Young University, Utah

• Bankruptcy in Utah up 42#x25 year-to-date

  Thursday Jul 10 | via Deseret Morning News 

  He sees it every day at work: adults with a bankruptcy in their past needing to re-establish their credit to make a major purchase.

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  Related Topix: Personal Finance, Mortgage, Credit Card Debt, Utah Government, Utah

• Utah foreclosures up 141#x25

  Wednesday Jul 9 | via Deseret Morning News 

  The number of Utah homeowners who received a foreclosure filing in June jumped nearly 141 percent, compared with the same month last year, according to a report released Wednesday.

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  Related Topix: Provo, UT, Orem, UT, Utah County, UT, Utah, Sundance Film Festival, Foreclosures

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

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  5 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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• Stocks tumble after sales of existing homes fall

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

  6 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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