Flooding buyouts
The idea of using local tax dollars to buy flood-damaged homes may not sit well with some residents.
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Judgments Online Below are summaries of recent court cases affecting the real estate industry. For more detail and additional cases, visit The Letter of the Law , NAR's 'Batty' Lawsuit Proceeds to
Snags in mortgage-rate relief effort (The Philadelphia Inquirer) WASHINGTON - Be ready to wait if you call the federal government's new telephone hotline for subprime-mortgage borrowers. Minutes after President Bush outlined a plan on Thursday to help strapped
Mortgage lending rise matches 2-yr high-BBA (Reuters.co.uk) LONDON (Reuters) - The rise in underlying net mortgage lending matched May's two-year high in July, data showed on Friday, supporting other surveys depicting a robust housing market before this
UPDATE: OCBC To Raise Pvt Home Mortgage Rate By 25 BPS (Dow Jones via Yahoo! Asia News) SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. (O04.SG), Singapore's third-largest lender, has joined market leader DBS Bank in raising its benchmark mortgage rate for private residential property.read more...
Climbing Oil Prices Cut Into Stocks' Gains Rising oil prices and the return of bond market anomaly cut into stocks' early gains Wednesday, leaving Wall Street stuck in a narrow range.read more...
Two more plead guilty in mortgage-fraud scheme (The Columbus Dispatch) Four of eight people charged in a local mortgage-fraud scheme that victimized hundreds of families have pleaded guilty. The latest two came today from Joseph Lieberman and George Jordan in