Mortgage fraud crackdown (Financial Times)
Growing evidence of mortgage fraud is forcing the City watchdog into a crackdown on brokers that could see them facing tougher regulatory scrutiny.
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1st Metropolitan buys retail-mortgage branches (BizJournals) 1st Metropolitan Mortgage has purchased assets of 48 Olympia Funding Inc. retail-mortgage branches.read more...
Home Sales Expected To Hit New Highs Historically high levels should hold into 2006, says the National Association of Realtors' top economist.read more...
Mortgage workers face more layoffs in Bay Area More than 1,600 mortgage industry job eliminations planned in ... (Inside Bay Area) The early months of 2008 are expected to unleash more pain for a mortgage industry that has disclosed plans to shed more than 1,600 jobs in California.read more...
California mortgage bankers want home loan limits raised (San Diego Daily Transcript via Yahoo! News) With median home prices that climbed more than 61 percent between 2000 and 2004 and wages that haven't kept up, it is no secret that San Diego continues to
Report: Mortgage employment stabilizing (BizJournals) Layoffs in the real estate finance sector fell by more than half in the second quarter compared with the first quarter and the year-ago period, according to a recent mortgage
Making business an art forum It's a tricky combo - art and business. Artists want to maintain their integrity, but they gotta eat.read more...