Housing market defies gloomy forecasts
Home prices rise even faster than ever, and though some cities may have crested, others remain bargains.
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Scotiabank Closes Transaction to Buy Leading Canadian Mortgage Lender (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance) Scotiabank today announced the Bank has received regulatory approval to close its transaction to buy the mortgage business of Maple Financial Group Inc., including Maple Trust Company, a national
Thornburg completes $140 million private placement Thornburg Mortgage Inc. completed a $140 million issuance of unsecured junior subordinated notes in a private placement through Thornburg Mortgage Home Loans Inc.read more...
Subprime Today: Mortgage applications down 7.8% in week: MBA (Market Watch) A daily roundup of subprime-mortgage and credit-crunch-related news from MarketWatch.
LIQUIDITY LOOKED IN THE MIRROR BUT INSOLVENCY STARED BACK BENSON'S ECONOMIC & MARKET TRENDS February 8, 2008 Written and published by Richard Benson, www.sfgroup.org We continue to read articles in the financial press and elsewhere by widely-respected mainstream economists
Safe as Houses The National Reserve Bank's St. Petersburg office doubled the number of mortgages it lent in 2006, Interfax reported Monday.Commentread more...