Issued building permits decline
Single-family home permits issued in July were sharply down in July from the previous month in both Cape Coral and the unincorporated part of Lee County, according to figures released Tuesday.
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Web Help for Getting a Mortgage the Criminal Way (New York Times) New Web sites have fueled the rampant mortgage fraud that has caused a spike in loan defaults in recent months.read more...
U.S. Mortgage Foreclosure Filings Rise 90% in May (Update4) (Bloomberg.com) June 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. foreclosure filings surged 90 percent in May from a year earlier as more homeowners fell behind on their monthly mortgage payments, RealtyTrac Inc. said.read more...
Stocks gain after Fed comments U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates as expected and said it will continue to increase rates at a measured pace in an improving economy
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Missed mortgage payments are sure sign of hard times (Times Online) MEETING regular mortgage payments ranks high on householders? financial priorities. Payments are normally made by direct bank debit, taken out of the usual discretion about which bills to pay when.read
Ike Destroys a Number of Gulf platforms Federal officials say it appears Hurricane Ike destroyed a number of production platforms and damaged some of the pipelines in the Gulf of Mexico.read more...