Historic houses share their stories
Diane Kelley-Tefft enjoys showing visitors the pumpkin-pine paneling in the kitchen of her Richards Avenue home.
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Mortgage mess hammers Wall Street (CNN Money) Stocks tumbled near midday Friday amid surging oil prices and growing fears that the government will have to take over beleaguered mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.read more...
Pending Home Sales Near a 6-Year Low Pending sales of existing homes dropped to their lowest level in almost six years, a real estate trade group said Tuesday, demonstrating the persistence of the housing slump.The 3.5
Average mortgage rates move up (Northwest Herald) McLEAN, Va. ? Rates on 30-year mortgages rose last week for the first time in five weeks, according to a nationwide survey. Mortgage giant Freddie Mac said Thursday its weekly
Mortgage rates stay flat A week filled with contradictory economic data let mortgage rates end pretty much where they started out in Bankrate's weekly survey. The benchmark 30-year fixed rate stayed at 6.42 percent.read
US home prices tumble in April at record rate U.S. home prices tumbled in April at the fastest rate since a widely followed index was begun in 2000 with all 20 metropolitan areas surveyed posting annual declines for the
Heavy-metal heists hitting Elgin hard "To steal cast iron, where they pay pennies on the pound -- I guess it's just easy" There appears to be a bull market for scrap metal in Elgin.