Business-Property Outlook Sours
Real-estate executives’ outlook for the commercial-real-estate market has deteriorated as hopes dim for improvement during the next year, according to a Real Estate Roundtable survey.
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Mortgage Rates Climb on Fed Rate Worries (ABC News) Mortgage Rates Climb to Highest in More Than 4 Years on Fed Rate Worries, Freddie Mac Reportsread more...
Newspaper study finds high mortgage rates four times as likely for blacks Blacks who bought homes across America last year were four times as likely as whites to get mortgage loans at high interest rates instead of lower market rates, a study
Mortgage fees higher than in US, UK (AAP via Yahoo! Australia & NZ Finance) Costs and fees charged to consumers in the Australian mortgage lending market are up to 35 per cent higher than those charged in the US and UK, a report shows.read
BioMed Realty Trust Agrees to Acquire Portfolio of Properties In Cambridge, Massachusetts from Lyme Properties via
Safe as houses Or are America's property investors reckless? Certainly, the anecdotes indicating there's a boom with at least an element of speculation are starting to echo those of the red-hot Nineties.via
Mortgage crunch hitting Midwest particularly hard (The Charlotte Observer) Michigan and Ohio share with Florida and California some of the nation's highest rates of foreclosed homes and delinquent mortgages. But the reasons for their woes are as different as