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NW Style: Antiques on a student budget (Reg Req'd) Most children ask for toys, but when 19-year-old Michael Wood was a kid, he wanted decorative pillows for his room.via
Williston Herald A spurt in Williston's economy in the last year has also been accompanied by a housing shortage, something not experienced for 20 years or more.via
Solid bets: Illegal immigrants exception to mortgage meltdown (Tucson Citizen) Despite the downturn of the mortgage market, a type of home loan has remained surprisingly sturdy: one extended to illegal immigrants.read more...
Wachovia has $8.9B loss, exits wholesale mortgage (AP via Yahoo! News) Wachovia says it lost $8.86 billion in the second quarter, hurt by a big goodwill charge and an increase in reserves for bad loans as mortgage defaults soar.read more...
Mortgage advances growth remains Growth in mortgage advances is likely to remain relatively high in the short term, but slower growth is projected towards the end of the year and into 2006 in view
Families brace for rate rise, year of mortgage stress (The West Australian) Hundreds of thousands of Australians are bracing for more mortgage pain as they await a likely Reserve Bank decision to lift official interest rates. The Reserve Bank of Australia board