Prospective homebuyers caught in mortgage squeeze (Newsday)
It’s gotten a lot tougher for first-time home buyers to secure a mortgage these days.
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Home Depot to open new store on Carrollton (Reg Req'd) The site flooded substantially during Hurricane Katrina. Home Depot spokeswoman Demitra Wilson said the new location will be about half the size of the company's typical 102,000-square foot store.read more...
Tech Trends Reach the Kitchen How computer technology is turning the kitchen world upside down.via
Leaving legacy of spending Economic prosperity under Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has changed the way Americans handle their finances.read more...
Government may soon back troubled mortgage giants (AP via Yahoo! News) The government is expected to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as soon as this weekend in a monumental move designed to protect the mortgage market from the
SCBT Financial buying mortgage firm (The State) SCBT Financial Corp., the holding company of South Carolina Bank and Trust, is purchasing Devine Mortgage LLC. The price was not disclosed.By purchasing Devine Mortgage, SCBT Financial gains a location
PM 'dishonest on rates' "If you're keeping an interest rate at 30-year lows and then suddenly it goes up five times since then, I don't think you're keeping it at 30-year lows" Opposition