Sky Financial to acquire Indiana mortgage company (Pittsburgh Business Times)
Sky Financial Group Inc. said it will acquire Union Federal Bank of Indianapolis and its parent company Waterfield Mortgage Company Inc.
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New York Mortgage Settling Repurchases (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Real estate investment trust New York Mortgage Trust Inc. said Wednesday it has settled 77 percent of loan repurchase requests that were outstanding when it reported second-quarter earnings Aug.
Mortgage rates jump in lackluster market (CNN Money) Following a January surge in refinancing activities, mortgage rates rose this week in the lackluster housing market, but are likely to decline, Freddie Mac reported Thursday.read more...
Ameliorating housing deficit in Nigeria Chamberlain S. Peterside ,... Anecdotal evidence suggest that in societies with high ratio of home-ownership, there is a lower crime rate, gainful employment opportunities, higher standard of living, more prosperity as people remain ...read
Speaker Shows the Way With Event-Driven Marketing Consider this scenario: A customer disputes a bill for the third time. What does a marketer do before this occurrence? Proactively e-mail the customer details about a cheaper plan.read more...
Sandra Block: Your Money - Know the rules, your rights before your mortgage closing (USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News) Just about anyone who has purchased or refinanced a home has a mortgage-closing horror story. Unexpected fees. Last-minute surprises. A settlement document that contains more pages than The Brothers
Marriage Builds Wealth, Divorce Destroys It Marrying for money, it turns out, works. A study by an Ohio State University researcher shows that a person who marries -- and stays married -- accumulates nearly twice as