Homebuilder Confidence At 11-Year Lows
Homebuilder Confidence in U.S. Declines to an 11-Year Low Confidence among U.S. homebuilders dropped this month to the lowest in more than 11 years as higher mortgage rates caused sales to fall.
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Kirksville Daily Express: News Column KIRKSVILLE - They're not building a house, they're building a community, said the youth minister, wiping his hands on his shorts after climbing off the scaffolding.via
Government Intensifies Mortgage Investigation (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance) The F.B.I. and the I.R.S. are said to be investigating whether some mortgage lenders turned a blind eye when prospective borrowers used inflated income figures.read more...
Mortgage rates rise to highest level in 4 years (Orlando Sentinel) Rates on 30-year mortgages rose this week to the highest level since the spring of 2002. Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, said Thursday that rates on 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages increased
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Not all home loans are equal (Reg Req'd) Latinos who took out home loans in Santa Clara County last year ended up with high interest rates much more often than whites or Asians, a Mercury News analysis of
Why housing forecasts are (almost) worthless Perspective: Too many variables make future unpredictable Marcie Geffner Forecasters, prognosticators, pundits, analysts and others of their ilk are able to predict the future -- or so they would have