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  • Higher loan limit could lift market

    Maryland Daily Record - ... you’re somebody who has cash or you’ve been renting and you have some money saved up, now is probably the best time in recent memory to go and buy a home,” Nusgart said. “You have a lot of inventory and you have relatively low mortgage rates ...
    2008-03-09 04:04:00

  • Australia's Home-Loan Approvals Probably Rose 1% in January

    Bloomberg - An increasing numbers of approvals have been for fixed- interest-rate loans as those entering the market brace themselves for further increases in mortgage rates,'' said Alex Joiner , an economist at Australia & New Zealand Bank Ltd. in Melbourne.
    2008-03-09 04:04:00

  • Reports: FBI opens Countrywide probe

    USA Today - ... faces federal and state investigations of its lending practices, as well as several lawsuits by investors and mortgage holders. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is conducting about three dozen civil investigations into how subprime loans ...
    2008-03-09 03:50:00

  • The Role Of Race In The Mortgage Mess

    CBS News - CBS) Just six months after buying his home in New York City, CBS News ... city bus driver, was one of millions of Americans caught in the subprime mortgage ... to subprime mortgages, even when they were qualified for lower interest rates.
    2008-03-09 04:04:00

  • Citigroup overhauls mortgage business

    News.com.au - The New York-based banking group said it would no longer offer certain types of riskier mortgage loans and that it was sharply cutting back its mortgage investments.
    2008-03-07 10:28:00

  • Australia's Home-Loan Approvals Probably Rose 1% in January

    Bloomberg - A quarter-point increase adds about A$42 ($39) a month to the average A$250,000 home loan, according to the Housing Industry Association. Mortgage Rates
    2008-03-09 04:04:00

  • Higher loan limit could lift market

    Maryland Daily Record - Nusgart said getting jumbo mortgage loans had gotten difficult because of the foreclosure crisis. Lenders were wary of loaning larger sums because they could not find investors who wanted to buy the loans from them.
    2008-03-09 04:04:00

  • Tenants feel pinch as demand and rents soar

    News.com.au - The Jacksons will pay $670 a week in mortgage repayments, following this week's Reserve Bank of Australia decision to lift the national interest rate by 25 basis points. Only a year ago the Jacksons were paying about $450 a week.
    2008-03-06 03:58:00

  • Slowing home construction has ripples across Maine

    Portsmouth Herald - ... those with higher-interest mortgages granted to people with less-than-perfect credit — has only added to the problems. The percentage of homes in foreclosure in Maine reached a record level during the last quarter of 2007, according to a Mortgage ...
    2008-03-09 02:10:00

  • Entering the repossession lane

    Boston Globe - And many - even those with good credit and lower interest rates - are finding they can't ... the market at the beginning of the year has been unusual and appears to reflect not only the general economic slowdown, but some spillover from the mortgage ...
    2008-03-07 02:24:00

  • New York Prosecutors Charge Former Mortgage Exec With $4 Billion Stock ...

    All Headline News - ... of the company's interest-only strips by ... portfolio of floating-rate interest-only strips. According to Stockhouse.ca, Levis' lawyer said his client is being singled out "when a number of financial companies have suffered from a crisis in the mortgage ...
    2008-03-06 03:58:00

  • Fannie: That Pricey Ski Chalet Can Now Be Yours!

    US News and World Report - ... everyone in well-to-do America putting off buying a new house because jumbo mortgage ... places like Vail, Colo., Washington, D.C., and Hawaii can look forward to interest ... fallen by nearly 13 percent over the past year) will see the limit rise by only ...
    2008-03-07 10:06:00

  • Treasurys mixed after weak jobs report, isolated improvements in ...

    CNBC - ... Bad Week Euro Stocks to Struggle but Bottom-Fishing Expected Countrywide: Mortgage ... But that change may only indicate that many people are discouraged about their ... Hoenig also said there is too much burden on interest rates to fix the economy and ...
    2008-03-07 01:12:00

  • Written by Yinka Kolawole

    Vanguard - ... workers gain access to mortgage loan facilities for the purpose of home ownership, at subsidized interest rates. Pension Linked Mortgage Scheme ... The scheme finances the purchase or building of residential properties only, which must however be in a ...
    2008-03-09 03:29:00

  • A Good Time To Buy a House -- If You Can

    Wall Street Journal - But as home values slide further downward and interest rates hover at relatively low ... bad loans," says Dick Lepre, senior loan officer at Residential Pacific Mortgage, in ... Most real-estate agents and sellers only look at comparable sales prices, or ...
    2008-03-09 11:11:00

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