Personal Finance
WASHINGTON - Sales of previously owned homes dropped 2.6 percent in July as mortgage rates crept up.
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Lost mortgage data found (Columbian Missourian) Columbia customers of mortgage lender ABN AMRO are among the 2.5 million people whose personal financial information was on a computer tape misplaced by the company?s courier last month.read more...
Mortgage applications fall 2.7% (Market Watch) WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Applications for mortgages at major U.S. lenders dropped 2.7% in the past week as interest rates rose, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported Wednesday.
Habitat for Humanity builds a home for mom and daughter ' It's just a frame, the skeleton of a home, that rose this weekend at Teronda West in Greenbank, but 6-year-old Chloe can already picture her room.read more...
HouseValues plans purchase of online mortgage business (Puget Sound Business Journal) HouseValues Inc. said it has reached an agreement to buy The Loan Page Inc., which operates a Web site where mortgage companies list their loans available to consumers.read more...
Mortgage rates up first time in weeks (Reg Req'd) Rates on 30-year mortgages rose last week for the first time in five weeks, according to a nationwide survey.via
Home builders caught in slowing market (Reg Req'd) Home builders caught in slowing market Part 1: Housing market flattening, but no crash An example of a Toll Brothers home in Chatsworth, Calif., which sells for $1.6 million.read more...