Housing spins off an IPO (Reg Req’d)
Builders FirstSource, the Dallas-based lumber supplier to the red-hot home building industry, will go on sale to the public this week in an offering that could spark the company’s next round of frenzied …
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Met Mortgage charges filed (Tacoma News Tribune) The federal government on Monday filed civil and criminal charges in the Metropolitan Mortgage and Securities Co. collapse, which cost more than 10,000 investors some $450 million.read more...
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New fixed-rate, interest-only mortgage surges in popularity (The Arizona Republic) As rising mortgage rates drive up the costs of buying a home, consumer demand has soared for a recently introduced type of mortgage that offers the security of a fixed
Plan to Change Northeast Polk Land Use To Allow Industries Sent to State Agency read more...
Land trusts offer strategy for affordable housing When a broker refers to a $900,000 home as one of the "lower-priced properties" available for purchase in Ventura County, as one did in a story earlier this week on
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