Mortgage, hotel taxes get nod (MidHusonCentral.com) KINGSTON - Ulster County legislators Wednesday approved sending resolutions for a mortgage tax and a hotel and motel tax on to the state Legislature in an attempt to bridge a
First State Financial Reports 3rd-Quarter Earnings Down on Declining Mortgage Fees (Canadian Business) SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - Community bank First State Financial Corp. said Friday its third-quarter earnings fell 30 percent due to a decline in mortgage fees.read more...
Housing nightmare tarnishes the American dream (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Jillayne Schlicke's father used to tell her that mortgage banking was the "highest calling of all" because it involved helping people live the American dream of homeownership.read more...
Paying early withdrawal penalty to reinvest Bankrate provides calculators to let you figure it out, says Dr. Don.read more...
Mortgage rates rise a bunch (Bankrate.com) For a lot of homeowners, there's still an opportunity to refinance. Even if they missed an even better chance last week. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage rose 31 basis points,
Sector Snap: Mortgage Insurers (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Shares of mortgage insurers tumbled Wednesday after Standard & Poor's downgraded four major insurers, threatening their ability to insure home loans purchased by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.read more...
A Florida university and an insurer that incurred hundreds of millions of dollars in losses during recent storms are teaming up to find ways to help buildings survive massive winds. Their tool: Giant fans.

read more…
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 at 8:21 am and is filed under Real Estate.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the comments RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
Leave a Reply