Home buying made easier for first-timers
Mindy Acton couldn’t have picked a harder place to go from homeless to homeowner than Sonoma County.
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Burglars Target Work Trucks At Home Improvement Stores A rash of burglaries has recently been reported in parking lots at major Los Angeles area home improvement stores, police say.Commentread more...
Why don't high rates sink real estate market? Rising interest rates are supposed to be an economic sedative, but the hyperactive real estate market has retained its vigor even as the prime lending rate has climbed to a
The big picture New federal housing data show that the nation's most overheated local housing markets now make up such a large share of the total U.S. market that a sharp fall in
Fed Mortgage Proposal in Spotlight (AP via Yahoo! Finance) The Federal Reserve is finalizing a far-reaching mortgage proposal that would ban certain lending practices and apply to the lightly regulated subprime mortgage specialists that proliferated during the recent
Like-Kind Exchanges Can Be Thorny The rules are complex and the time limitations are strict, but if you plan to sell investment property, the Starker, or like-kind, exchange will allow you to defer your
Wachovia Net Drops 10% on Mortgage, Loan Writedowns (Update2) (Bloomberg.com) Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Wachovia Corp., the bank that's spending more on acquisitions than its biggest competitors, reported earnings that missed analyst estimates after $1.3 billion in writedowns for mortgage-backed