Building still booming
New home. Jose Vallecer and his wife, Amelia, are getting ready to close on a new home in Palm Bay.
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Digest: Scrutiny urged for mortgage giants (Houston Chronicle) Congress should strengthen oversight of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prevent unrestrained growth in the two biggest U.S. mortgage finance companies that could trigger financial market turmoil and require
Mortgage lending shows biggest rise in three years (Reuters.co.uk) LONDON (Reuters) - Mortgage lending rose by its biggest amount in nearly three years in July, while approvals for new house loans hit their highest since the start of the
Winning the cat litter box battle, cheaply Shaunna Privratsky, winner of August's Frugal $ense contest, saves money on cat litter and lots more.read more...
US mortgage giant's profit slumps 45 percent (AFP via Yahoo! News) Freddie Mac, one of the biggest players in America's mortgage sector, said Thursday its latest quarterly profit had slumped 45 percent because of housing and mortgage market "volatility."read more...
Foundation wants land for affordable housing In what would be the first project of its kind in Sarasota County, the Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice has signaled its intent to pay $16 million for 145
Northern Rock 2nd-Half Net Rises 51% on Mortgage Gain (Update1) (Bloomberg.com) Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Northern Rock Plc, the U.K.'s best- performing bank stock in 2006, said second-half profit rose 51 percent on increased mortgage lending to existing customers, beating analysts'