Home Improvement, Appliance Sales Up in 2004
Total home improvement product sales in the U.S. reached $271 billion in 2004, the highest on record since the Home Improvement Research Institute began tracking this data in 1984.
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Mortgage regulations may increase knowledge (Greeley Tribune) Regulations. The word sometimes may send you into a frenzy. The last several years it seems as though the regulations that were supposed to be in place in the mortgage
FSA tells mortgage lenders to be fair on levy of exit fees (EARTHtimes.org) The U.K.'s financial sector regulator the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has set an official deadline by which mortgage lenders will be required to comply with rules regarding unfair mortgage exit
Borrowers, insurers would save with new mortgage insurance (Lodi News-Sentinel) The first article in this series pointed to a serious weakness in the way the mortgage system deals with default risk. Interest-rate risk premiums collected from borrowers that are not
Build A Green House Build A "Green" House April 22 is Earth Day... And a good time to think about building homes that save energy and safeguard the natural landscape.via
Census finds cell-phone surge Are America's telephone poles headed for the same fate as hitching posts? For the first time in memory, the Census Bureau reported this week that the percentage of households
Wachovia Net Drops 10% on Mortgage, Loan Writedowns (Update8) (Bloomberg.com) Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Wachovia Corp. reported its first earnings decline in six years and missed analysts' estimates after a record $1.3 billion of writedowns for bad loans and mortgage-backed