Local Headlines
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Home sales up, prices down in Western Washington
2 hrs ago | via Bellingham Herald
Home sales in Western Washington rose in September for the first time in more than a year and a half, but prices declined and there were slightly fewer homes on the market, a real estate consortium reported ...
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Apartment Rents Rise in U.S. as Vacancies are Little...
17 hrs ago | via Bloomberg
The vacancy rate for U.S. rental apartment buildings rose to 6.1 percent in the third quarter as a dropoff in mortgage lending and stagnant wages deterred people from buying homes, Reis Inc.
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Ladenburg Criticizes McKenna on Housing Crisis
Thursday Sep 25 | via KUOW-FM Seattle
Republican Rob McKenna is seeking a second term as Attorney General. He says he's helped protect consumers from identity theft, internet scams, and other types of fraud.
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Lehman turmoil hits port financing
Wednesday Sep 24 | via The News Tribune
Wall Street's woes reached out to touch the Port of Tacoma this week, causing the port commission to send bond marketing and financing deals formerly handled by bankrupt Lehman Brothers to other Wall Street ...
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Tacoma Bank Eyes Wamu Advisers; Clients Leaving
Monday Sep 22 | via Financial Planning
A wealth executive at a Tacoma, Wash., banking company said he has begun recruiting financial advisers from the troubled Washington Mutual Inc., and a Boston financial services company says one of its ...
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Regional Headlines
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Home sales up, prices down in Western Washington
5 hrs ago | via KOMO News
Home sales in Western Washington are up for the first time in more than a year and a half, prices are down and the inventory of homes on the market is tighter.
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Locals to get $200 million in settlement
7 hrs ago | via Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Bank of America will give 9,500 Washingtonians about $200 million in help to keep their homes, and contribute more money to help people who already lost their homes or will have to move into rentals.
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Wash. Countrywide mortgage customers to see relief
7 hrs ago | via KTVB Boise
Nearly 10,000 Washington homeowners will split about $200 million as part of a settlement between 11 states and sub-prime lender Countrywide Financial Corp over deceptive mortgage practices.
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Buying or Selling a Home? Plus, Yale Economist Rober...
10 hrs ago | via KUOW-FM Seattle
Washington State sued Countrywide Financial and won. Countrywide Financial will modify loans and waive late fees for 10,000 Washingtonians whose homes are at risk of foreclosure.
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Lawsuit helps thousands of Countrywide customers in ...
11 hrs ago | via KGW-TV Portland
Relief is on the way for some homeowners at risk of foreclosure in Washington. Countrywide Financial Corp., a Bank of America subsidiary, would modify tens of thousands of loans in order to keep homeowners at ...
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National Headlines
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Treasury publishes info on TARP authorities
3 min ago | via NAFCU
Oct. 7, 2008 - Treasury on Monday published information that lays the groundwork for the selection of asset managers in the Troubled Assets Relief Program and set an Oct.
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3 min ago | via NAFCU
Oct. 7, 2008 - The board of the new HOPE for Homeowners Program has set final rules for the temporary Federal Housing Administration foreclosure relief program included in this summer's Housing and Economic ...
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Day 30: Harper softens stance on deficits as markets...
5 min ago | via Canada.com
With a week to go before Canadians mark their "X" on their ballots, it was plummeting markets, the threat of a recession and Prime Minister Stephen Harper not ruling out whether Canada would slide into a ...
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B.C. folks brace for economic slowdown
6 min ago | via Canada.com
Stock markets in Canada and around the world took another alarming dive yesterday, with economists warning that the U.S.-led financial crisis will hit Canada hard.
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Crisis hammers stocks, U.S. urges unified response
7 min ago | via Reuters
Governments around the world scrambled for new measures to contain the fast-spreading credit crisis as stock, bond and commodity markets bet on deepening uncertainty and a sharp downturn.
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