Mortgage rates fall to 26-month low (Bankrate.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Mortgage rates have hit their lowest point in more than two years as Fed officials made it crystal clear that the central bank will cut short-term rates next week.
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As Home Depot buys, investors should wait A couple of months ago, I suggested that investors were concerned that a slowdown in the housing boom would translate into slower sales growth for Home Depot.read more...
Mortgage Demand Slows Despite Lower Rates Even as interest rates declined, U.S. Mortgage applications fell for the third consecutive week to their lowest level since November 2003, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.read more...
Why buy and be boring when you can rent and be trendy? POTENTIAL first-time buyers are increasingly shunning a mortgage in favour of the rental market, where they can get a lot more for their money.read more...
Opus, Wells Fargo Unveil... Northpointe Development SAN BERNARDINO, CA-Wells Fargo Home Mortgage will occupy 230,000 sf of a 284,000-sf build-to-suit office project called Northpointe that the Irvine office of Opus West Corp.read more...
Beazer Exiting Mortgage Business (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Beazer Homes USA Inc., one of the homebuilders hardest hit by the housing crash, said Friday it will exit its mortgage origination business immediately, shut down operations in several
Rebuilding the past "This house hasn't moved in 66 years with that foundation, and it was important to us to ensure the integrity of the original construction" Some homes have a history