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Thornburg Mortgage offers shares (bizjournals.com via Yahoo! Finance)   Thornburg Mortgage Inc. today announced the launch of an underwritten public offering of 2 million shares of Series E Cumulative Convertible Redeemable Preferred Stock at $25 per share.read more...


Boom on Strip helps keep LV economy on even keel  "This is a testament to the health of our commercial and public works sectors. This percent is still very high compared to the national average" Strong development activity along


5 injured in N.Y. building collapse (Reg Req'd)  A 7-month-old girl was among five people pulled from the rubble early yesterday after a former supermarket under demolition on the Upper West Side collapsed, sending concrete and steel debris


Civil charges filed against former Fannie Mae execs  The government on Monday filed civil charges against former Fannie Mae Chairman Franklin Raines and two other executives, seeking fines and the return of millions in bonus money.Commentread more...


A Stunning Work of Art, but Who's the Artist? You May Never Know.   When buildings receive media attention, why do the architects who design them often go unmentioned? read more...


Four Steps To Reduce Mortgage Exit Fees (The Motley Fool UK via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)  More nasty charges! This time it's mortgage exit fees that we put under the hammer, with four steps to reducing them.read more...

June 30th, 2008

Wachovia quits offering risky mortgage payment option (USA Today)

Wachovia said Monday it will quit offering a mortgage payment option that allows borrowers to pay less each month than the bank charges in interest.

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June 30th, 2008

Wachovia no longer offering risky mortgage loan option (The Indianapolis Star)

CHARLOTTE, N.C. Wachovia Corp. will quit offering a mortgage payment option that allows borrowers to pay less each month than the bank charges in interest. That was one option of its controversial Pick-A-Payment mortgages. (AP)

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June 30th, 2008

Home mortgage rates start edging up (The News Journal)

As if the real estate slump wasn’t severe enough—with prices sinking and foreclosures dumping ever more homes on the market—another threat has emerged: rising mortgage rates.

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June 30th, 2008

Mortgage broker Charcol axes staff (Financial Times)

John Charcol, one of the UK?s largest mortgage brokers, has axed a quarter of its workforce and closed three of its eight UK branches because of the turmoil in the housing market.

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June 30th, 2008

Home Building & Products Expo this Thursday

This Thursday June 26 at the Citizens Center is the 5th Annual Home Building & Products Expo sponsored by the Lincoln County Home Builders Association.



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June 30th, 2008

Home Building Program Helps Students Learn Math Skills

For the first time ever in Oklahoma, high school students learn Math skills while constructing a home.



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June 30th, 2008

Home remodeling discovery: a skull in the attic

Roofers have made an unsettling discovery while working on a house in Tooele, Utah.



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June 30th, 2008

Contractors Forced To Fight For Home Remodeling Jobs

Some contractors in the area are feeling the effects of the slumping economy and are fighting for business remodeling homes.



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June 30th, 2008

“Buy a house, sell a home?”

This might not be worth a post, but anyway: Arnold Zwicky has a post at Language Log on “home” vs.



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June 30th, 2008

Mortgage lending falls by 65% in just ONE year as economists warn…

The housing market was hit by more desperate news this morning as figures revealed the number of mortgages approved for people buying a house had fallen to a record low during May.



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