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Do New Mortgage Rules Make Borrowers Safer?
Wednesday Jul 16 | via Realty Trac
You could hardly miss the headlines this week: More than 1,000 news outlets covered new rules from the Federal Reserve designed to "protect" America's mortgage borrowers.
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Related Topix: Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance
Local Headlines
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Affordable townhouse plan moves forward
Jun 2, 2008 | via The Westerly Sun
A park is being built on Pierce Street as part of an effort to revitalize the North End.
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Related Topix: Foster, RI, Home, Mortgage, Westerly, RI, Washington County, RI
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Housing board seeks applicants for two future affordable homes
May 21, 2008 | via The Block Island Times
The Housing Board this week continued to fine-tune its criteria for potential applicants for two affordable homes to be built on land off Champlin Road.
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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Block Island, RI
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Block Island couple donates their house to make way for a new one
Apr 25, 2008 | via Providence Journal
Nancy Worth has cleaned other people's homes for going on a decade, peering out windows at their striking water views.
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Related Topix: Block Island, RI, Home, Mortgage, Providence, RI
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Journal photographer wins for series
Feb 23, 2008 | via Providence Journal
A series of photographs showing Rhode Islanders forced from their homes by mortgage foreclosures has won Journal photographer John Freidah a prestigious award.
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Related Topix: Home, Foreclosures, Mortgage, Block Island, RI
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Declines reported in Rhode Island home sales, prices
Feb 1, 2008 | via Customer Interaction Solutions
Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge) Feb. 1--Rhode Island's housing market deteriorated at the end of last year, as single-family sales slowed to a crawl, prices inched down and inventory rose, according to two ...
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Related Topix: Housing, Washington County, RI, Newport County, RI
Regional Headlines
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Friday Jul 11 | via The Providence Journal
FIRST TIME HOMEBUYERS SEMINAR: The Washington Trust Company and Rhode Island Housing will host a free seminar, First-Time Homebuying Made Easy, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 23 at Washington Trust's office at ...
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Related Topix: Cranston, RI, Home Buying, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Rhode Island, Foreclosures
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Low-paying jobs a drag on economy
Friday Jun 27 | via Providence Business News
The sudden jump in Rhode Island's unemployment rate to 7.2 percent in May is grim proof that the state needs to accelerate its move to a "knowledge-based economy," some business leaders said last week.
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Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Rhode Island, Rhode Island Government, Providence, RI
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Bills on foreclosures await governor's approval
Monday Jun 23 | via Providence Journal
Banks that repossess foreclosed properties in Rhode Island will have to pay the properties' tax and utility bills in a more timely fashion and post bonds for the properties' upkeep if legislation approved by ...
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Related Topix: Rhode Island, Rhode Island Government, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures, Providence, RI
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Housing recovery outlook bleak for R.I.'s
Monday Jun 23 | via Providence Journal
Rhode Island's deteriorating job market is expected to delay its recovery from what a new study describes as the nation's worst housing downturn in a generation.
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Related Topix: Providence, RI, Rhode Island, Home, Mortgage, Mortgage, Personal Finance, Foreclosures
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May 14, 2008 | via The Providence Journal
Rhode Island's once-noisy condo market is barely making a peep. Sales of condominiums during the first quarter plunged 37 percent, as more units sat on the market unable to find buyers, according to data from ...
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Related Topix: Housing, Home, Mortgage, Rhode Island, Real Estate
National Headlines
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12 min ago | via Shropshire Star
Ask yourself this question: What is Ludlow best known for? Your answer will probably include a few of the following: Fantastic restaurants, a beautiful castle, glorious countryside, vibrant festivals and a rich ...
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Bush: Congress could take steps to ease gas prices
14 min ago | via Alaska Journal of Commerce
Responding to Americans' anger over gas prices and the housing bust, President Bush is stepping up pressure on Congress to open up offshore oil exploration and work to restore confidence in the housing finance ...
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Related Topix: George Bush, Foreclosures, US News, Housing, US Politics, US Senate, Patty Murray, Democrat, Home, Mortgage
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Property cools in capital with glum economy
16 min ago | via Viet Nam News
Certain sectors of the Ha Noi real estate markets have cooled over the past few months as a result of the global economic slowdown, domestic inflation and limited liquidity on the market driven by high interest ...
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Related Topix: Home, Mortgage, Ha Tay, Vietnam, World News, Ha Noi, Vietnam, Vietnam
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Why would Fed delay revision of rules?
21 min ago | via Dispatch.com
The Federal Reserve Board has signed off on new rules to help the rising tide of mortgage delinquencies by barring lenders from making loans without proof of a borrower's income and requiring lenders to ensure ...
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Related Topix: Mortgage, Personal Finance, Home, Mortgage, Opinion
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23 min ago | via Edmonton Sun
As executive director of the Downtown Business Association of Edmonton, it's a given Jim Taylor would be revved up about the city's core.
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Related Topix: University of Houston System, Downtown (University of Houston System), Housing, Arlington (University of Texas System), University of Texas System, Canada, Edmonton, AB, Alberta, Opinion
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