Housing Bubble Trouble?
WITH NEW HOME SALES DOWN 10.5 percent in February, and with home prices declining for the fourth month in a row, it’s high time for a sober look at the consequences of a major housing correction.
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Ask first, remodel later Spending on remodeling is expected to reach $316 billion this year alone and the number is still climbing, according to the Home Improvement Research Institute. via Myrtle Beach Online
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Widow, 94, stung by `reverse mortgage' (San Jose Mercury News) If you want to understand just how toxic a home mortgage can get, consider this real-life, ongoing saga: Katherine Stephens is a 94-year-old widow, now living in a nursing home
Builders Look for Housing To Recover in 2007 Home buyers have been backing out of sales contracts and forfeiting their down payments. Yet, cancellation rates should steady in the first quarter and taper off later in 2007, the
Senate Panel to Study Minority-Lending Disparity Sen. Gary Siplin walked into the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee meeting Monday wanting to make it a felony for a bank employee to reject a home-loan application because of
Fraud taking off with the boom If you needed to stretch your actual income to qualify for a mortgage to buy the house you love, would you consider telling a little white lie, fibbing to your