PEER recommends stricter control of public construction
JACKSON, Miss. A new report from a legislative watchdog group says Mississippi government needs to keep tighter controls on construction of public buildings.
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Reverse mortgage bails out seniors facing foreclosure (Lodi News-Sentinel) George A. Downey, a longtime reverse-mortgage lender, walked into a seminar designed to help people explore creative financing alternatives in an attempt to avoid default and foreclosure.read more...
Mortgage applications fall as fewer owners refinance (Chicago Tribune) U.S. mortgage applications fell last week from the highest level since January as home purchases declined and fewer homeowners refinanced. read more...
Michigan State Housing Development Authority Wins Award The Michigan State Housing Development Authority has been named the outstanding state housing finance agency in the country for one of its homeownership programs, the agency announced.read more...
S&P emails slammed mortgage debt products: report (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Analysts at Standard & Poor's Rating Services warned against mortgage-related debt products in internal e-mails that, in one case, called the complex financial deals "ridiculous," the Wall Street Journal
Even Height of Luxury Proves a Tough Sell The U.S. housing crisis arrived on July 14 at Stonebrook Court, the 26,000-square-foot Tudor-style home of California venture capitalist Kelly Porter. On that day, four months after putting the house
PRBC Receives U.S. Patent For Bill Payment Reporting, Scoring Pay Rent, Build Credit, Inc. has announced that "the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted Patent Number 7,139,734 for the company's technology and method for collecting data on