Mortgage rate fall for first time in five weeks (CNNMoney.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Mortgage rates fell for the first time in five weeks and should continue to hold steady in the near term, Freddie Mac reported Thursday,
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Why Some Cities Think Developing At Rail Stops Is a Good Road Mixed-use developments centered around mass-transit rail lines are popping up in Englewood, Colo., and other car-friendly towns in the West, as metros look for an alternative to automobiles and suburban
Lumber costs fall; other building materials rise The price of lumber is down about 10 percent from this time last year. That's good news for the home construction industry.Commentread more...
Assured Mortgage Selects Sollen Technologies' Loan Origination Pricing and Pipeline Management Tool (Centre Daily Times) Sollen Technologies, an Internet-based application services provider of product, pricing and best execution capabilities for the mortgage industry, announced Brookfield, Wis.-based Assured Mortgage has chosen Sollen's loan pricing and pipeline
Mortgage rates rise on inflation worries (The Pueblo Chieftain) WASHINGTON - Mortgage rates rose this week with 30-year mortgages climbing to the highest level in more than four years on investor fears about inflation.
Consumers report 14,000 contractor problems to state in 2006 "They just kind of live out of the checkbook." John Raymond wanted heat, but he got burned. Raymond paid a local heating and cooling company $2,000 two years ago
Agents' Costly Referrals Spark Class-Action Suit A recent class-action lawsuit focuses attention on a long-festering consumer issue in real estate: Alleged steering of home buyers to affiliated title, settlement and mortgage companies by large real estate