AUSTRALIAN BORROWERS REMAIN PERPLEXED BY MORTGAGE OPTIONS (Asia Pulse via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance)
Banking / finance A large number of Australian borrowers remain perplexed by the tricky terrain of the mortgage industry.
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Home Construction Slowed in January Total housing starts declined 14.3 percent from December to January as builders worked down their inventories of unsold homes, according to the U.S. Commerce Department.Commentread more...
Financing holds up downtown hotel refurbishment Completion of financing details is all that stand in the way of starting the remodeling effort of the Portales Inn.via
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Mortgage applications increase last week (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Applications for U.S. home mortgages increased last week due to a robust rise in purchasing and refinancing activity even as mortgage rates rose, an industry group said on Wednesday.via
Rising fears of mortgage losses drive indexes down (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Stocks slid sharply on Friday, with fears about mortgage losses intensifying after Bear Stearns' chief financial officer said fixed-income market turmoil was worse than the Internet bubble, and as