National City completes $1.3 billion sale of mortgage unit (Springfield News-Sun)
CLEVELAND ? National City Corp. said Tuesday it has completed its $1.3 billion sale of mortgage lender First Franklin and affiliates to Merrill Lynch & Co.
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Building permits slide 11% as housing market cools The value of building permits fell almost 11 per cent in April to a five-month low as new housing demand pulled back from near record levels the month before, Statistics
Your Car Payment May Prevent You From Qualifying For a Mortgage (About.com) Many people in their 20s and 30s with good jobs are surprised to find themselves unable to qualify for a mortgage. The culprit is often their car payment. I'll show...read
Does your life need a budget? All that stuff about budgets can be frightfully boring. But it's also terribly important.read more...
What is a PiggyBack? To understand what a "piggyback" loan is, you must first know what a second mortgage is.Commentread more...
Agency Helping Families Get New Homes Need a home and think you can't afford that down payment? The Eastern Idaho Community Action Partnership, formerly EISSA, may be able to help.read more...
Housing solution: Increase rules? "Our society does often over-respond to such anger with more regulation, and it has interfered with the free working of the market" A heavier federal hand is reaching into