Mortgage Lender Faces Rush to Withdraw (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
Depositors of IndyMac were rushing to withdraw cash on Tuesday after a prominent senator questioned the mortgage lender?s ability to survive the housing crisis.
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Kenya's Middle-Class Home-Buying Boom NAIROBI -- One recent Sunday, Paul Abeno, a mid-level computer sales executive, shuffled through aisles of brass cabinet pulls, colored tiles and tiny glass-encased models of three-bedroom homes landscaped
U.S. mortgage rates lowest in 4 weeks (UPI) U.S. mortgage rates have fallen to their lowest levels in four weeks, the Freddie Mac primary market survey reported Thursday.read more...
Astoria to outsource mortgage loan servicing (Long Island Business News) LAKE SUCCESS - Astoria Financial Corp. announced Monday that it would begin outsourcing its mortgage loan servicing beginning in December. Illinois-based Dovenmuehle Mortgage Inc. will begin handling Astoria Federal's mortgage
Who Gets the Mortgage? (Washington Post) Breaking up has gotten even harder to do for those who share a mortgage.read more...
Tax expert Rangel mangles facts in ethics mess Even when Rep. Charles Rangel tries to explain how he got into his tax mess, he mangles the facts so much it's easy to see how his accounts _ and
Homeowners Love Cul-de-Sacs, Planners Say They're Perils A popular feature of suburbia is under attack as hundreds of local governments pass ordinances to limit these dead-end roads or even ban them in the future.read more...