Mortgages and Loans help
Federal bank regulators on Wednesday urged lenders to give thousands of homeowners along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast more time before requiring them to resume making mortgage payments.
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Tammany Parish’s housing inventory, anyone in the market for a new home should expect to pay a big ticket or act fast to snag the short supply of houses under $200,000. Real estate brokers on both sides of the …
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Sales of new homes unexpectedly catapulted 13 percent last month over September’s rate, a monthly increase not seen in a dozen years, according to a government report released yesterday.
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Katrina victims Ed and Elsa Gaskell realized only last week that their last three months’ worth of mortgage payments on their damaged New Orleans home were due today.
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Alison Guage is the chief financial officer of a four-kid household. On the spreadsheet: one income from her husband, Joe, to cover two cars, her student loans and a five-bedroom house.
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A Bay Area couple almost lost their home in the process, even though they paid their mortgage on time, each month.
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CONGLOMERATES Temple-Inland to shed jobs along with mortgage business Austin-based Temple-Inland Inc. plans to shed its wholesale mortgage business and concentrate mostly on its consumer lending unit. The company, known for its cardboard boxes and buildin
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Frank Berrish of Visions FCU in Endicott, N.Y., was named this week to a two-year term on the Federal Reserve Board’s Thrift Institutions Advisory Council beginning next January.
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Callable, bump-up and step-up CDs offer higher yields than their ordinary cousins, but need to be judged carefully.
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Franklin County remains at the heart of the hottest job market in Pennsylvania. New home construction is fueling some of the local job growth.
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