Finance & Mortgage
Harsh winter and rising prices may hurt U.S. home sales in spring
U.S. housing starts fall while building permits rebound
Israel's real estate developer Azrieli Group posts Q4 profit rises
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Gov. Gavin Newsom Expedites Temporary Housing For Residents In Areas Struck By LA Wildfires
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Pasadena Native Lost Her House To LA Wildfires One Day After Paying Off Her Mortgage: 'It's Gone'
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How The Mircale Malibu Mansion And Pacific Palisades Home Survived The Devastating LA Fires
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What Happens To Your Mortgage And Property Tax When You Lose Your Home In A Natural Disaster?
San Francisco has doubled the amount of money it will lend to middle-class home buyers to help with down payments in a merket where an influx of high-paid technology workers has pushed prices up, city officials said on Tuesday. Stock market up following Putin's comments on Ukraine
U.S. stocks climbed for a second straight session on Tuesday, with the S&P within 1 percent of its intraday record after comments from Russian President Vladimir Putin relaxed investors' concerns that tensions over Ukraine could escalate. Yen slides as Russia sanctions seen as modest
The safe-haven yen fell broadly on Monday after the United States and the European Union imposed what investors perceived to be modest economic sanctions on some officials of Russia and Ukraine following Crimea's vote to join Moscow over the weekend. Russian assets rally on view Western sanctions to be limited
Russian shares and the ruble rebounded on Monday on the view that Western sanctions over Crimea would be limited to individuals rather than including trade or financial measures that would inflict significant economic damage. Retirees return to reverse mortgages, big banks stay away
Baby boomers desperate for retirement income are increasingly turning back to a financial product that, after the housing bust, had been left for dead: the reverse mortgage. Bitcoin: the underworld's currency
Criminals may already have made off with up to $500 million worth of bitcoins since the virtual currency launched in 2009 - and you can double that if it turns out they emptied Mt. Gox. Wall St. pares losses as Ukraine concerns ease
U.S. stocks were little changed on Wednesday, as equities recouped much of their earlier declines amid signs of progress in diplomatic attempts to ease tensions surrounding Ukraine. Senators reveal new bill to wind down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
An outline of legislation to dissolve Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-backed lending giants, was chalked out Tuesday by the Senate Banking Committee. Teresa Giudice, “Real Housewives” star, Faces Prison for Mortgage Fraud
"Real Housewives" star Teresa Giudice and husband Giuseppe Giudince face prison terms for mortgage fraud, failing to file income tax returns. Warren Buffett's investment advice - will it work for you?
In his most recent Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letter, the ever-folksy Warren Buffett sounds more like a personal finance guru than a financial mastermind, focusing on buy-and-hold investing and advocating indexing strategies.