HUD to start over on mortgage reform (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
America needs stronger governance of home-mortgage transactions, but reform must be from the ground up, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said Monday.
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Prime Buying at Thornburg Mortgage (Barron's Online via Yahoo! Finance) Based in Santa Fe, N.M., Thornburg Mortgage is a single-family residential-mortgage lender with a real-estate investment trust tax structure and is not exposed to the subprime menace.read more...
Citigroup acquires ABN Amro's U.S. mortgage unit (The Buffalo News) Citigroup Inc., the biggest U.S. bank, agreed to buy ABN Amro Holding NV's U.S. wholesale mortgage arm for an undisclosed amount to cement its position as the No. 3 mortgage
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Oh, the Pressure Five months after carpenters screwed down the last board on my oak and mahogany deck, I rented an industrial pressure washer, cranked it wide open and learned too late
Will this sign help deter crime? These residents hope so Strangers have been showing up at homes in South Norfolk, knocking on doors, peering in windows and wandering through yards.Commentread more...
HSBC to close U.S. mortgage-backed securities desk (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Europe's biggest bank HSBC Holdings (O005.HK) said it had stopped selling and trading mortgage-backed securities in the United States, as part of 120 job cuts in its investment bank