Local Headlines
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Aug 11, 2008 | via Alice Echo-News
The Alice Realtors Board of Directors in Region 11 of the Texas Association of Realtors Political Action Committee presented a $1,500 check to State Rep.
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Mar 28, 2008 | via Concord Monitor
Four months after the start of Ed and Elaine Brown's highly publicized standoff, a Realtor interested in office space they owned visited their Plainfield house to negotiate a lease.
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Regional Headlines
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Credit crunch squeezes Central Texas home starts
Yesterday | via Austin American-Statesman
Builders putting off planned projects but are confident of rebound. By now, rows of houses should have replaced the bales of hay on the 700-acre Goodnight Ranch 10 miles south of downtown Austin.
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Credit crunch squeezing Central Texas homebuilders
Yesterday | via Austin American Statesman
This empty pasture at the 700-acre Goodnight Ranch in far South Austin is part of a 3,500-home development approved two years ago.
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Local housing markets buck national trend
Yesterday | via The New Braunfels Herald
The constant barrage of news reports being piped into TV sets and spewed through the airwaves paints an increasingly dreary picture for prospective home buyers and loan-seekers. Michael Scudder thinks those ...
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As investors look at crisis in U.S., what do they like?
Yesterday | via Austin American Statesman
Frederick "Shad" Rowe spends months rounding up renowned investors to speak at an annual conference.
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Bailout harkens back to S&L crisis
Saturday | via Seattle Times
The $700 billion bailout of Wall Street's subprime-tainted securities hearkens back to the real-estate bets that sparked the savings-and-loan crisis in the 1980s.
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National Headlines
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Credit unions offer alternative to banks
11 min ago | via Akron Beacon Journal
While credit unions might not offer the breadth of services available at a bank, a greater degree of individual attention might be what some customers are looking for in the midst of a financial crisis.
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19 min ago | via News.com.au
THE battered Australian share market rallied today, rising more than 5 per cent as investors gained confidence from the government's emergency plan to protect the nation's banking system from a global financial ...
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US House debate covers economy, business issues
22 min ago | via Montana's News Station
U.S. House candidates Cynthia Lummis and Gary Trauner debated the causes of the ongoing economic crisis and the concerns of small businesses at a forum held at the Wyoming Hospitality and Tourism Fall Summit.
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Emmetsburg, IA Woman Arrested After Home Mortgage In...
29 min ago | via KTIV-TV Sioux City
55-year-old Jon Singelstad was taken into custody Thursday on an outstanding warrant charging him with two counts of commercial bribery.
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China's Communists Approve Key Land Reforms
30 min ago | via China Digital Times
AFP reports on proposed economic reforms that would allow farmers to trade and mortgage the rights to their land: The package was approved at an annual meeting here chaired by President Hu Jintao of up to 500 ...
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