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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

• 'Wait and watch' drags housing down

  Yesterday | via STLtoday 

  Jeff Downes is looking to spend more than $800,000 on his new house, and he wants a deal.

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  Related Topix: Housing, St Charles County, MO, St Louis County, MO, Home Listing, Home

• Man receives life in prison for assault

  Saturday Jul 19 | via Springfield News Leader 

  St. Charles -- A man convicted of sexually assaulting a St. Charles County real estate agent was sentenced Friday to two consecutive terms of life in prison.

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  Related Topix: St. Charles, MO, St Charles County, MO, Real Estate

• Two life terms plus 25 years for Wilson

  Friday Jul 18 | via STLtoday 

  Matthew Wilson tried Friday to delay his sentencing but still got two life terms in prison, plus 25 years, for sexually assaulting a real estate agent he left handcuffed in a basement.

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  Related Topix: Real Estate, St Charles County, MO, Arcadia, MO, Home Listing, Home

• Existing house sales continue to disappoint

  Thursday Jun 26 | via STLtoday 

  A day after dismal May figures were reported for new house sales, it was time for round two Thursday, and the numbers were equally bad, especially locally.

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  Related Topix: St Louis County, MO, St Charles County, MO, Marketing, Chesterfield, MO, Real Estate

• Man Accused of Attacking Real Estate Agent Represents Himself in Court

  Jun 11, 2008 | via KSDK-TV Saint Louis 

  The man accused of sexually assaulting a real estate agent cross-examined his accuser in court.

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  Related Topix: Arcadia, MO, Real Estate, Weldon Spring, MO, St Charles County, MO

Regional Headlines

• Zweifel launches first television ad

  15 hrs ago | 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

• 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

• Announces Disaster Assistance for Missouri Storm Victims

  Monday Jun 30 | via HUD 

  U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Steve Preston today announced HUD will speed federal disaster assistance to seven storm-ravaged counties in Missouri and provide support to homeowners and low-income ...

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

• The ACORN Obama knows

  Monday Jun 30 | via Statesman Journal 

  If you don't know what ACORN is all about, you better bone up. This left-wing group takes in 40 percent of its revenues from American taxpayers - you and me - and has leveraged nearly four decades of ...

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  Related Topix: Missouri, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Immigration Reform, 2008 Presidential Election, Home, Mortgage

National Headlines

• New home sales fall, but less than expected

  4 min ago | via Daily Herald 

  Sales of new homes fell in June for the seventh time in the past eight months, but the decline was less than had been expected, raising faint hopes that the nation's severe housing recession could be ...

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

• Death-Squad Boss Guilty of Fraud

  4 min ago | via New York Post 

  A former Haitian death-squad leader who murdered and tortured political enemies in the early 1990s was convicted in Brooklyn yesterday of far less sinister crimes - ripping off loan providers in a ...

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  Related Topix: Mortgage, Home

• Foreclosure filings double in 2Q

  5 min ago | via Daily Herald 

  The number of households facing the foreclosure process more than doubled in the second quarter compared to a year ago, according to data released Friday.

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  Related Topix: Irvine, CA, Housing, Stockton Metro, Stockton, CA, Foreclosures, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Maxine Waters

• "Beazer gave them $100,000 cash, paid their mortgage off and...

  8 min ago | via Housing Doom 

  You just can't help some people. The 2005 " Extreme Makeover " home has gone into foreclosure.

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  Related Topix: Reality TV, Entertainment, Television, Construction, Beazer Homes USA, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures

• Sterling Gets Back to Strong Suit

  10 min ago | via GlobeSt.com 

  Sterling American Property Inc. caught the local commercial real estate market by surprise when it purchased Park Tower, the city's oldest skyscraper, for $50 million in January 2006.

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  Related Topix: University of South Florida, Home, Mortgage, University of Florida