Students Can Lock In Low Loan Rates (Reg Req'd) The Federal Reserve Board has been ratcheting up short-term interest rates lately, but thanks to the federal regulations, government-guaranteed student loans remain in a low-rate time warp.via
Mexico to build only energy-smart homes in three years: minister Mexico will soon allow only energy-smart homes to be built in the country, and plans to have 30,000 such units up and running by 2011, Environment Secretary Juan Rafael Elvira
Feeding the Oil Monster with a Dixie Cup Hurricane Katrina did what months of political heat couldn't: It breached the Bush Administration's stone wall against responding to soaring gasoline prices.read more...
Home Sales Continue at Torrid Pace Sales and prices of existing homes rose to record highs in April, an industry group reported yesterday, four days after Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan warned in his strongest
Mortgage Firm Owner Pleads Guilty (AP via Yahoo! Finance) The owner of a shuttered mortgage business pleaded guilty Wednesday to a federal charge of mail fraud, two months after hundreds of his customers first realized they owed more
Can Houses Be Sold Like Art? A restored modernist home in Palm Springs, Calif., fetched $15 million this week at Christie's prestigious evening sales -- a record for a home sold at an art-house auction. Photosread
Los Angeles- Mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp Inc. said Tuesday it will slash its work force by 24 percent, dismissing 2,403 employees in a bid to cut costs as it tries to weather the worsening housing slump and problems selling home loans to investors.
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