With Mortgages, Instant Wealth for Middlemen
New York Times A vast industry of real estate middlemen has sprouted recently, riding the ups and downs of the mortgage market, and in many cases, accumulating great wealth in the process.
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Home Prices Scaring Away Workers; City Housing Coalition Warns of... Employers will have to consider sign-on bonuses, higher wages, down-payment assistance and other financial incentives if they expect to recruit and keep skilled workers -- even executives -- who might
Mortgage company reduces workforce (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance) National City Mortgage confirmed Thursday it laid off employees as part of a consolidation of its wholesale branch operead more...
MORTGAGE: Co-signer's credit suffers if payments are missed (The Charlotte Observer) Q. About five years ago, I co-signed a home mortgage for my niece so she could buy a condominium. All went well until about four months ago. She lost her
Home Prices Continue to Climb Median home prices in San Benito County continue to rise and some experts predict that even an influx of new homes during the next few years might not reverse that
Retailers thinking outside 'big box' The huge cinder-block stores that have defined suburbia for a generation are undergoing a facelift.read more...
Lennar is latest home builder with a profit plunge One by one, some of the nation's largest home builders have seen quarterly earnings get crushed by the slump in the housing market.Commentread more...