Home Mortgage Rates Jump in Past Week (Real Estate News)
RISMEDIA, April 10, 2006?The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate jumped to 6.43 percent from 6.35 percent during the week ended April 6, according to Freddie Mac.
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UPDATE: S&P Downgrades $3.8 Billion In Piggyback Mortgage Bonds (Nasdaq) NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- Standard & Poor's kept worries about mortgage credit in focus Thursday by announcing downgrades of 418 classes of bonds backed mainly by so-called piggyback loans.read more...
Baby Fest to give new parents decorating advice Decorating a nursery used to be simple: pink flowers for little girls and blue trucks for boys.read more...
Home Depot Buying Lender Home Depot agreed Tuesday to acquire remodeling lender EnerBank USA from CMS Energy .read more...
Thornburg Mortgage Keeping Investors Sweating (Forbes) The beleagured mortgage lender gave an omnious sign when it delayed its Hail Mary fund-raiser.read more...
Late mortgage payments drop sharply (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer) Late mortgage payments dropped sharply in the opening quarter of this year, a big improvement after delinquencies hit a 2 1/2-year high in the closing quarter of last year.read more...
Guessing about state's economy One hitch in any plan to increase funding for public education may be found in UCLA's Anderson Forecast, which last week predicted a slowdown in the California economy, resulting in