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Tourists bring dollars, headaches, to Berkshires (Berkshire Eagle)
Can you feel it? The traffic is traumatizing. The grocery lines are lengthy. The osso bucco is sold out.
2008-07-27 05:08:37 -
Watt: Rescue better than foreclosures (The Charlotte Observer)
Rep. Mel Watt, a Charlotte Democrat, sat down with the Observer recently to discuss the mortgage crisis and legislation aimed at helping borrowers and lenders. The bill authorizes the Federal Housing Administration to refinance troubled mortgages held by participating lenders, gives communities money to purchase foreclosed properties, offers first-time homebuyers a tax credit, and helps prop up ...
2008-07-27 05:16:26 -
Americans Should Be Outraged by the Bill I'm Voting For! - Reason.com
Americans should be outraged at the latest sweetheart deal in Washington. Congress will put U.S. taxpayers on the hook for potentially hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. With combined obligations of roughly $5 ...
2008-07-23 05:55:00 -
Housing costs force Generation Y to live at home longer - News.com.au
THE high cost of housing is being blamed for more than half of Generation Y still living at home with their parents, as shown in a new survey. The proportion of 17-to-32-year-olds living at home hit 50.2 per cent in 2006, the Housing Industry ...
2008-07-24 09:57:00 -
Terry McCrann - News.com.au
SO, the Reserve Bank was absolutely right to raise interest rates into those storms of bitter protest and cries that the 'ivory tower theorists' didn't know or understand what was happening in the 'real world'. That is one important message from the ...
2008-07-23 05:55:00 -
Mortgage news - Chicago Tribune
S o your attempts to sell your house in Chicago have gone nowhere. You think you got it rough? Try living in Chicago and selling a house in say, Las Vegas, one of the most deflated spots in the housing bubble. Illinois state authorities have shut ...
2008-07-26 11:50:00 -
Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation Q2 2008 Earnings Call ... - Seekingalpha.com
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the second quarter 2008 Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation earnings conference call. My name is George, and I will be your co-coordinator for today. At this time, all participants in listen only ...
2008-07-27 02:27:00 -
Fight to the end for savings - Philiy.com
You looked hard to find the right house. You negotiated the right price and shopped around for the best mortgage rate. But you're not done shopping yet. Home buyers can squeeze out extra savings at the closing table if they negotiate on fees charged ...
2008-07-26 11:57:00 -
5 Critical Signposts on a Lender's Road to Customer Satisfaction - CRM Buyer
Mortgage Banking 07/27/08 4:00 AM PT There are five key performance indicators that are critical for home-equity lenders in satisfying customers, according to J.D.
2008-07-27 03:53:00 -
How to Get a Mortgage in Today's Market (Richfield Reaper)
(ARA) - Whether you're buying your first home or looking for a larger home, now may be the time to act. Not only do interest rates remain relatively low, in many markets you can get much more house for your money than you could just a few years ago.
2008-07-26 05:47:40 -
A healthy market (The Lafayette 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.
2008-07-27 01:18:49 -
Fight to the end for savings (Philly.com)
You looked hard to find the right house. You negotiated the right price and shopped around for the best mortgage rate.
2008-07-27 01:22:04 -
Handcuffed (Asbury Park Press)
Mark and Jennifer Seymour were well on their way to refinancing their Neptune City home with Wachovia Corp., giving them a lower interest rate and some much needed breathing room, when they got a call two weeks ago saying there was a snag.
2008-07-27 01:43:35 -
Lawsuit dropped over Calif. congresswoman's home (The New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung)
TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) -- 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.
2008-07-27 01:43:43 -
Peter Boutell, Lending a Hand; This first-time home buyer program reduces payments (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
The only first-time homebuyer program that actually puts money back in the homebuyers' pockets has recently been funded and is ready to go for 2008.
2008-07-27 01:46:14