MBA’s Mortgage Applications Index in U.S. Dropped 1.9% Last Week (Turks.US)
In the United States, Mortgage applications dropped last week to the lowest level in four years as higher borrowing costs hurt home purchases and refinancing.
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Countrywide says housing slump has a year to go The slowdown of the U.S. housing market will last through 2007 as inventories are pared enough to prompt a change in consumer psychology, the chief executive officer of the nation's
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