Housing frenzy cools a bit
Melvin Rogers’ 1-acre home lot in the Windermere area has been on the market for more than two months now, with an asking price of about $650,000. That’s more than triple what he paid for it four years ago.
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Trooper sentenced in mortgage scheme (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) A state police trooper was sentenced to three years' probation Wednesday for his role in a $1.6 million mortgage-flipping scheme. As part of his sentence, Thomas Henry, 38, of Penn
Put the life back in the living room The living room rarely lives up to its name. Unless one lives in a studio apartment, it is a room not so much for day-to-day living as it is a
U.S. MBA's Mortgage Applications Index Rose 0.8% Last Week (Bloomberg.com) Feb. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Mortgage applications in the U.S. increased for the first time in four weeks as home purchases rebounded from a two-year low.read more...
Public Bank posts RM711m net for 1H, declares 20% dividend Public Bank Bhd posted a net profit of RM711 million for the first half ended June 30, 2005, up 16% from RM613.17 million in the previous corresponding period.read more...
ROMANIA: BNR Will Not Limit Mortgage/Housing Loans (seeurope.net) Romania's Central Bank (BNR) does not have in view imposing some restrictions for rising the interest rates for the mortgage or housing loans in order to limit them, said BNR
What You Call a Bedroom Might Not Be One You might doze off in the family room every night, but that won't make it a bedroom when it comes time to sell the house. read more...