Housing experts say end in sight
HOUSING TIPS With home prices in the stratosphere, many buyers have been forced into more exotic types of mortgages to be able to afford to buy homes.
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Prepay mortgage or invest? (Bankrate.com) I am purchasing a $230,000 home -- putting down $50,000 and borrowing the rest with a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage at 5.75 percent. I will have an additional $400 per month
BofA loses mortgage servicing exec (The Charlotte Observer) A former top Bank of America Corp. mortgage executive has joined a Jacksonville, Fla.-based loan processing company. Bob Caruso, formerly the Charlotte bank's head of
Home-Price Growth Slow in First Quarter The rate of increase in U.S. home prices remained slow in the first quarter of the year, marking the slowest growth pace in a decade and extending a trend
Owners Hold Off On Sales Of Homes Super-charged local real estate market that has sent home prices soaring is increasingly leaving prospective sellers hesitant to put their homes on the market, believing they cannot find an
Mortgage rates jump to 4-year high The traders who price mortgage rates this week decided en masse that the Fed may not stop raising rates soon, causing the 30-year fixed rate to leap to 6.83 percent.read
Mortgage insurance tax break makes little sense (St. Petersburg Times) When she heard about a new tax break for homeowners with mortgage insurance, Kathryn Considine was delighted. "I thought if I could deduct what I paid this past year, that