Trailing in the Housing Race
In a 20-year-old trailer hidden amidst the businesses along West Broad Street and Hawthorne Avenue, Lonnie “Flip” Hambrick shows off two pieces of paper.
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Home price increases slowing, mortgage debt deepening, surveys find (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News) TORONTO (CP) - Canadian house prices are still rising but at a slowing pace, while low interest rates have encouraged homeowners to pile on record mortgage debt, two real
Slowing housing market a 'return to normalcy' Home sales plunged in September compared with the same month in 2005, the third straight month of declining sales in Boone, Ogle and Winnebago counties.Commentread more...
New iShares Mortgage-Backed ETF: No Subprime Holdings (SeekingAlpha via Yahoo! Finance) Tom Lydon submits: A new ETF from Barclays launched Friday amid subprime mortgage market concerns. The iShares Lehman MBS Fixed-Rate Bond Fund provides exposure to mortgage-backed securities.read more...
Fast-built house project underway More than 300 volunteers are moving in fast-forward in an effort to build a house in one day.read more...
New Businesses for Week Ending May 17 read more...
Real Estate: Getting the right help in home improvement "I'd just have to pay someone else to do it, or scour the Internet or ask friends for help. There wasn't any one resource for the do-it-yourselfer and I saw