Reverse mortgage take-up growing: study (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
The value of Australia’s reverse mortgage settlements grew almost two thirds last year as retirees tapped home equity to supplement income, a new study shows.
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H&R Block sells troubled mortgage servicer (MSNBC) Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross will pay $1.1 billion for H&R Block's troubled Option One mortgage servicing business, which has been rocked by the nationwide mortgage crisis.read more...
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City hires Brown as new code enforcement director Jim Brown, a former Jackson, Tenn. building and code department official, will replace Ancil Austin as the Bartlett director of code enforcement.via