Accent on trust: Latino banks stress culture, communication (Reg Req’d)
Interest rates are interest rates. So why would anyone tailor a bank to one ethnic group? To boost the comfort level.
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Jumbo mortgage lender Thornburg gets capital infusion (Market Watch) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Thornburg Mortgage Inc. got a shot in the arm after trading was briefly halted early Thursday, rallying as much as 17% as the jumbo
Impac Mortgage Holdings Posts 3Q Profit (AP via Yahoo! Finance) Impac Mortgage Holdings Inc., a real estate investment trust that buys, sells and invests in mortgage loans, reported Tuesday a fiscal third-quarter profit, reversing a year-ago loss, as a
Govt Gives Leg Up to First-Time Buyers HOUSE prices are rocketing and first-time buyers are finding it more difficult to get the property of their dreams.via
Mortgage apps down; rents raise CPI (USA Today) From wire services: Mortgage applications fell last week for the first time in three weeks, reflecting a steep drop in home purchase loans, as lower interest rates failed to spur
Lenawee County Mission wants to expand The expansion would increase the number of beds in the mission's emergency homeless shelter from 10 to 17.Commentread more...
Mortgage advances at 20-year high Concise history of oil industry is worth a careful read It was day 18 of the competition tribunal's hearings into the proposed merger between Sasol's liquid fuel business and Engen,