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30 Year Fixed Rate Zero Cost Loans vs. Lower Rates, Closing

Aug 7, 2008
TransWorldNews (press release), GA -
Solomon Financial continues to help homeowners get out of their adjustable rate mortgages and into 30 year fixed rate loans at low rates. Ask your loan officer or broker to show you options where you pay the closing costs and lower your ...

Demand for fixed rate loans halves | NEWS.com.au

Friday, August 08, 2008
NEWS.com.au, Australia -
THE popularity of fixed rate home loans has halved since the start of this year, in a sign that borrowers may be expecting an interest rate cut. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data out this week showed just 11.7 per cent of new mortgages approved ...

Freddie Mac losses soar to $821m - Times Online

Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Times Online, UK -
Freddie Mac, the US mortgage giant, today announced its fourth successive loss and plans to cut its dividend after growing numbers of homeowners fail to make loan repayments. The company which, along with Fannie Mae guarantee about $5 trillion (£2.5 trillion), ...

Housing slump spells doom for large Triad builder Pierce Homes - Triangle Business Journal:

Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Bizjournals.com, NC -
Pierce Homes of Carolina Inc., one of the Triad's largest home builders, is going out of business, citing the difficulties of the current housing market. Brian Pierce, vice president of the longtime Greensboro home builder, confirmed the company's closure Tuesday. He declined ...

U.S. Cities With The Most Home Equity - Forbes.com

Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Forbes, NY -
While homeowners in areas of central California and Michigan watch their home equity disintegrate thanks to second mortgages and falling home prices, those in small cities like Beaumont, Texas , and Charleston, W.Va. , are doing just ...

Will Hutton: A week that taught me home truths about the housing crisis | Comment is free | The Observer

Saturday, July 26, 2008
guardian.co.uk, UK -
It has a system of standardised or 'conforming' mortgages that properly certify an individual's income and employment history and which can thus be guaranteed or insured by giant, government-sponsored agencies such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Federal Housing Administration in ...

Mortgage Application Demand Drops as Loan Rates Jump - FOXBusiness.com

Wednesday, July 23, 2008
FOXBusiness -
The highest 30-year mortgage rates in a year eroded demand for US home loan applications last week, according to an industry trade group on Wednesday. The Mortgage Bankers Association's seasonally adjusted application index dropped 6.2%  in the week ending ...

BoA's Ken Lewis: ?More pain and time? - Los Angeles Times

Friday, July 11, 2008
Los Angeles Times, CA -
Healey: So is there a correlation between the propensity to default on a home equity loan and whether the house is under water? Lewis: Yeah, because people ...

BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | 300 job losses at home loan firm

Jul 8, 2008
BBC News, UK -
Banking giant Barclays is cutting 300 jobs at its home loans division in Cardiff, it has announced. Firstplus, which employs around 430 at its base in the Pentwyn area of the city, said it was no longer taking on new customers due to slowing demand. ...

Employees await word of fate after IndyMac deal -- Newsday.com

Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Newsday, NY -
BY ELLEN YAN | ellen.yan@newsday.com Local employees of IndyMac retail mortgage branches were in news-waiting mode yesterday, a day after the company announced it would stop taking new loans and would lay off more than half of its workforce. ...

Something for just about everyone -- chicagotribune.com

Sunday, July 06, 2008
Chicago Tribune, United States -
WASHINGTON—Congress left town for the July 4 recess with a half-baked cake in its legislative oven—one that has huge potential significance for the housing and mortgage markets. The unfinished work is a relief bill designed to rescue hundreds of thousands of ...

Alleged loan scams dotted Houston foreclosure landscape | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

Sunday, July 06, 2008
Houston Chronicle, United States -
Meanwhile, accused investors and loan officers kept working other condo deals. Some of the largest illicit payments from fraudulent mortgages allegedly were funneled to an investor named Latasha Rene Bellow, a former Katy resident who used the company name Nu Management ...

Kenneth R. Harney - Help for Homeowners Hangs in the Balance - washingtonpost.com

Jul 4, 2008
Washington Post, United States -
By Kenneth R. Harney Congress left town for the July 4 recess with a half-baked cake in its legislative oven -- one that has huge potential significance for the housing and mortgage markets. The relief package left unfinished is designed to help hundreds of thousands of homeowners ...

Obama defends mortgage rate - Los Angeles Times

Friday, July 04, 2008
Los Angeles Times, CA -
Sweet deals on home loans have gotten a string of Democrats into hot water lately. Among those humbled was James A. Johnson, who was helping vet potential running mates for Sen. Barack Obama until Johnson's mortgage rate breaks were revealed. But Obama scoffed at the ...

UK home loan approvals down 64% in May - Banking Business Review

Thursday, July 03, 2008
Banking Business Review -
The British Bankers Association has reported recently that May 2008 home loan approvals dipped 56% when compared to May 2007 levels and dropped 20% over April 2008 approvals. YOUR OPINION... ...

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Bloomberg -
Miller, the top- ranked analyst in Bloomberg's latest survey of stock-pickers, estimates Countrywide will lose as much as $33 billion on bad home loans. ...

Mortgage Loans - Move In Right Away | Best Syndication

Sunday, June 22, 2008
Best Syndication, CA -
So you have found the house of your dreams and you need finance fast before it slips from your fingers? As opposed to traditional mortgage loan lenders, ...

New Crisis Threatens Healthy Banks - washingtonpost.com

Saturday, June 21, 2008
Washington Post, United States -
By David Cho Increasing struggles by consumers and businesses to make payments on a variety of loans, not just mortgages, are setting off a new wave of trouble in the financial sector that is battering even institutions that had steered clear of the subprime-home-loan debacle. ...

A Financing System Bound For Failure -- Courant.com

Sunday, June 22, 2008
Hartford Courant, United States -
By MATTHEW KAUFFMAN | Courant Staff Writer The growth in foreclosure cases is the fallout, lawyers and others say, of a rush to sign people up for low-down-payment, adjustable-rate mortgages they could scarcely afford. Adjustable-rate loans for 100 percent of the purchase price, once unheard ...

When identity theft hits home -- chicagotribune.com

Sunday, June 22, 2008
Chicago Tribune, United States -
WASHINGTON—The sagging housing market has presented swindlers with a perfect opportunity to prey on troubled owners. But even owners who are making their payments on time are susceptible to being cheated out of their homes. Financially strapped owners ...

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