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Senate aims to ease mortgage troubles (Sun-Sentinel) The Senate moved against the worsening mortgage crisis Friday, voting to make it easier for thousands of homeowners with ballooning interest rates to refinance into federally insured loans.
Huge office lease headed to Solana (Reg Req'd) First American Corp. is consolidating four Dallas-area offices in a deal that's being touted as one of the biggest North Texas office leases in years.via
FBR's Mortgage Unit Files for Chapter 11 (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Investment bank Friedman Billings Ramsey Group Inc. said Friday that, as expected, its mortgage lending arm First NLC Financial Services LLC has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.read more...
Real Estate Finances When you buy a home, the jumble of acronyms can be confusing. Mortgage lenders juggle many products, each labeled with jargon.Commentread more...
Watching For the Copper Police Some people might say that Gwinnett County Police are into heavy metal right now.read more...
Mortgage Rates Fall to Lowest Since 2004 After Fed Takes Action (Bloomberg.com) Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. mortgage rates dropped to levels not seen since the middle of the real estate boom in 2004, a day after the Federal Reserve's emergency reduction