The hidden costs of home remodeling
From mid-project upgrades to building permits and surprise damage—here are the top ways your renovation could blow its budget.
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Need a Broker? Avoid the Ones Who Come Looking for You. In the past 10 years, I have written almost 50 articles on mortgage brokers, but none addressed the most basic question of all: What makes a good broker? read more...
Wall Street Breakfast for Nov. 21, 2006 Summary: Existing home sales in the third quarter fell 12.7% from a year ago, with declines greatest in once-booming Nevada , Arizona , Florida and California .Commentread more...
Play your cards right The situation is not much better at Scottish Widows, Clerical Medical or Norwich Union, where three in five policies maturing this year will miss their target of repaying mortgage debts.via
U.S. Bond Dealers Cut 10-Year Yield Forecast, Disagree on Fed's Next Move Wall Street's biggest bond-trading firms cut their forecasts for the 10-year Treasury yield after Hurricane Katrina sparked some doubt that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates tomorrow for the
Rates on 30-year mortgages rise for the first time in five weeks Rates on 30-year mortgages rose for the first time in five weeks as investors awaited word from next week's meeting of the Federal Reserve on the future direction of mortgage
Mortgage broker to face court over loan THE corporate watchdog is taking a mortgage broker to court for allegedly deceiving a lender into giving money to a teenager who could not afford to pay it back.Commentread more...