Mortgage Points Regain Popularity (Washington Post)
NEW YORK —Rising interest rates may soon revive the practice of paying points to lower monthly mortgage payments, an option not as readily offered by lenders in recent years.
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Water break cleanup goes on City employees and private contractors worked all weekend to clean the soggy mess left by a busted water main that flooded a section of Downtown last week, but it could
Home Builders' Confidence Falls To the Lowest Level in 16 Years Industry professionals expect dim prospects for the housing market in the near term, amid subprime loan problems and rising mortgage rates, a new report reveals. read more...
MPLT enters $1M loan deal, sues after finding fraud - December 03 The Marianas Public Land Trust filed yesterday a lawsuit against a non-profit organization and its initial four officers for allegedly inducing MPLT to enter into a $1 million loan agreement
Mortgage brokers flailing (The Charlotte Observer) Mortgage brokers who haven't fled the industry or been forced out are in survival mode. They're coping with little or no business as the economy slows, accusations that they're to
Fox Valley home building market slows Single-family home builders across northeastern Wisconsin may not be as busy as they were over the past three years, but they aren't standing around idle.read more...
SCE&G sells $110 million of first mortgage bonds (AP via Yahoo! Finance) South Carolina Electric & Gas Co. said Tuesday that it sold $110 million of its first mortgage bonds in a negotiated offering.read more...