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15 hrs ago | money.cnn.com | mortgagenews

Homeowners to Obama: Help us ASAP

Many borrowers are not getting help under president's modification or refinancing plan.

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Related Topix: Foreclosures, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

15 hrs ago | money.cnn.com | mortgagenews

25 charged in $100 million mortgage fraud

The Manhattan district attorney indicted 13 suspects and a mortgage company on Wednesday for running a $100 million mortgage fraud, in which they allegedly fooled banks into financing sham sales.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Criminal Defense Law, Law

16 hrs ago | www.businessinsider.com | mortgagenews

The Mortgage Treason Of The Intellectuals And Regulators

The new enthusiasm for government regulation of the financial sector often rests on a double standard that sees markets as fever swamps of irrationalism and government as the well of refreshingly rational guidance.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Housing

17 hrs ago | www.smartmoney.com | mortgagenews

10 Things Your Real Estate Broker Won't Say

But while open houses are promoted as a great way of finding a buyer, a National Association of Realtors study found that their success rate is a mere 2 to 4 percent.

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Related Topix: Home Selling, Home, Real Estate

19 hrs ago | www.bloomberg.com | mortgagenews

U.S. 30-Year Home Rates Fall to 5.2% in Second Weekly Drop, Freddie Says

Mortgage rates in the U.S. fell for a second consecutive week, easing concern that a Federal Reserve plan to lower the cost of home loans had lost momentum.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, McLean, VA, Ben Bernanke

Yesterday | problembanklist.com | mortgagenews

Taxpayers On The Hook For $40 Billion PPIP For Troubled Bank Assets| Problem Bank List

The Treasury, Federal Reserve and the FDIC today released a joint statement on the plan to buy troubled bank assets under the Public-Private Investment Program. Nine chosen money management firms will purchase as much as $40 billion in troubled bank assets using mostly taxpayer money. The goal of the PPIP is to hasten recovery of the banking ...

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Related Topix: US Treasury, US News

Wed Jul 08, 2009

www.marketwatch.com | mortgagenews

Morgage Applications Rise 10.9%

The volume of mortgage applications filed last week rose a seasonally adjusted 10.9% from the week before, reflecting an uptick in refinancings, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

www.washingtonpost.com | mortgagenews

Home Affordable Refinance Program's poor performance

The federal tide of red ink is frustrating an effort to help homeowners at risk of foreclosure.

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Related Topix: Foreclosures

WBT-AM Charlotte

Fed: Consumers trim borrowing by $3.2B in May

Consumers trimmed borrowing in May for the fourth straight month as the recession took another bite out of investments and drove unemployment higher.

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Related Topix: Home

The Boston Globe

Democrats skeptical of consumer protection agency

The chairman of the House Financial Services Committee is throwing his weight behind President Barack Obama's plan to create a government agency to protect consumers from risky mortgages and credit cards, although some of his colleagues are skeptical of the details.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, US Senate, Democrat, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance, US House of Representatives, Barney Frank

Telegraph.co.uk

House prices drop to 2004 levels Halifax says

House prices have returned to 2004 levels after a drop in prices last month, Britain's biggest mortgage lender has disclosed.

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Related Topix: Home Listing, Home

NBC 17

NC Officials Kick Mortgage Lender Out Of State

North Carolina officials have revoked the license of a mortgage lender and levied heavy fines on the company for using shell companies and fictitious names to avoid state regulation.

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Related Topix: Home

KAAL

Toxic asset program may be too late to help banks

WASHINGTON - A government plan designed to rid banks' books of the troubled assets that exacerbated the financial crisis will do little to address a fundamental weakness of the industry or the broader economy, analysts say.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Tue Jul 07, 2009

News10.net

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Despite massive government efforts to bolster the credit market, banks are pulling back severely on card lending.

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Related Topix: Home

301 Moved Permanently

AG Starts Effort To Combat Mortgage Fraud

Kansas' attorney general has launched a campaign against mortgage fraud that includes lawsuits against five companies.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Shawnee County, KS

Hampton Roads Daily Press

Mortgage help is at your fingertips

Although the mortgage lending crisis put a serious squeeze on the housing market, the situation has also produced attractive low borrowing rates for prospective home buyers who can qualify for a mortgage.

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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

The Sydney Morning Herald

RBA stays put on rates

The Reserve Bank left interest rates at record lows for a third straight month but indicated it has room to make further cuts if necessary.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage

24dash

Confidence returning to mortgage market as brokers predict 'significant' pick up

Confidence returning to mortgage market as brokers predict 'significant' pick up>> Housing>> 24dash.com Accessibility Menu Confidence returning to mortgage market as brokers predict 'significant' pick up Published by Hannah Wooderson for 24dash.com in Housing Monday 6th July 2009 - 1:00pm Confidence returning to mortgage market as brokers predict ...

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Related Topix: Home

Mon Jul 06, 2009

Scoop

NZ property values rise, the number of sales fall

July 5 - " New Zealand property values rose in June as a general shortage of properties for sale saw vendors boost their prices in what's beginning to look like a seller's market.

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Related Topix: Oceania, New Zealand, World News, Home Listing, Home, Mortgage, Personal Finance

Sun Jul 05, 2009

online.wsj.com | mortgagenews

Home Prices Fall 0.6% as Rate of Decline Slows

U.S. home prices eased their slide in April, but rising unemployment and shaky consumer confidence are weighing on prospects for a recovery in the housing market and broader economy.

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Related Topix: Housing

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