Nationwide and Halifax increase mortgage rates (Guardian Unlimited)
The UK’s biggest mortgage lender today announced plans to increase interest rates following yesterday’s rise in the Bank of England base rate.
read more…
Finding Bright Spots Among the Dark Clouds Just how bad is the foreclosure situation? If you caught summaries of the latest delinquency and foreclosure numbers released by the Mortgage Bankers Association, you could only conclude: Yikes,
Do I Need a Permit? When it comes to sell your home in Oregon, in most cases, you will have to provide the seller with Property Disclosures.read more...
Rent-to-own can be road-to-ruin Dear Joe, In a rent-to-own, or lease-option, arrangement, the seller is giving you the right -- at some point in the future -- to buy the house at a price
Abbey benefits from changing mortgage market (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance) Abbey, which was taken over by Spain's Santander in 2004, looks like one of the winners of the Northern Rock debacle as it reported a 12% rise in full year
Mortgage Crisis Roughs up IndyMac (BusinessWeek) The mortgage lender, which provides "Alt-A" loans, suffers as the mortgage crisis spreads read more...
To Sell to Gen-Y, You Have to Meet Them Online Despite the housing recession, there are still more than 1.5 million real estate agents in the United States. read more...