‘Don’t fix your mortgage’ (News 24 South Africa)
Finweek’s Vic de Klerk gives four good reasons why home owners should stick with the popular variable mortgage rate.
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Personal Finance The earnings of mortgage giant Freddie Mac dropped nearly 60 percent in the first half of the year amid continued volatile interest rates as it emerged from its accounting crisis.read
Regulators accused of laxity as mortgage boom faltered (Houston Chronicle) The Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency took little action in public to police the $2.8-trillion boom in the U.S. mortgage market ? whose bust
Countrywide, five other lenders to offer new mortgage plan (Market Watch) Six of the nation's largest home mortgage lenders are announcing a plan Tuesday for a 30-day freeze on foreclosures for prime and subprime borrowers who are more than three months
Wallpaper making a comeback Wallpaper lost its appeal a few years ago when "sponging," "ragging" and other types of faux painting became a staple of television home-improvement shows.via
Charter school's grand opening is eight days late As he timidly approached the doors of his new school yesterday morning, 11-year-old Josh Prucnal didn't know exactly what to expect.read more...
Bush's mortgage plan attributed to GOP fears of recession (Lincoln Journal Star) WASHINGTON ? The Bush administration?s new and aggressive effort to help people facing foreclosure and shore up the mortgage industry came from growing fears of an election-year recession and the