Finance & Mortgage
U.S. Mortgage Rates Ticks Down To 3.98%: Freddie Mac
Americans Brace For Next Foreclosure Wave
Geithner Says U.S. Far Behind on Housing Finance Reform
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Top 1,000 Brokerages Reveal Which Real Estate Firms Are Surviving — And Growing — In The Current Recessionary Market
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Shohei Ohtani And His Agent Settle Hawaii Lawsuit Over Alleged Sabotage Of $240 Million Real Estate Project
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James Corden Locked In Bitter Fight With London Council Over Paving Changes At His $22 Million Heritage Home
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Mortgage Rates Jump Back Above 6% After Iran Strikes Push Oil Prices And Treasury Yields Higher
With mortgage rates still hovering near historic lows, this could be the right time to buy a home or refinance a mortgage, but nailing down a low-rate, low-fee loan isn't that easy. Mortgage Applications Picked up Last Week : MBA
Applications for U.S. home mortgages gained last week after seven straight weeks of declines, helped by a jump in purchase demand as interest rates retreated, an industry group said on Wednesday. Ambac sues JPMorgan over mortgage losses
Ambac Financial Group Inc, the bond insurer that last month won court approval to emerge from bankruptcy, has sued JPMorgan Chase & Co to recover losses on mortgage securities that it insured and were made by the former Bear Stearns Cos. Teachers Credit Union Now A Bank; Lenders Jack Up Fixed Mortgage Rate
Due to the rising dissatisfaction level among Australians with large banks, more people are bringing their business to credit unions. As a result of this change, a number of Aussie credit unions are becoming banks. AIG Looking at Buying Home Loans: FT
Bailed-out insurer American International Group (AIG.N) is looking at the possibility of purchasing whole loans as another investment vehicle, leveraging the growing market share of its mortgage insurance business, the company's chief executive said in an interview with the Financial Times. Bad Assets Overshadow Banks' Huge Profits
When asked by reporters on March 15 about how he perceived the huge profits of China's banking industry last year while the private sector was foundering on a shortage of bank loans, Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of People's Bank of China, said he thought banks' staggering profits were a natural result of readjustment of economic cycles. Fitch Assigns Selene Finance Residential Mortgage Servicer Rating
Fitch Assigns Selene Finance Residential Mortgage Servicer Rating Fitch Assigns Selene Finance Residential Mortgage Servicer Rating from reuters Fitch Ratings takes the following rating actions on Selene Finance LP's (Selene) U. Goldman, Landesbank Argue CDOs in US Appeals Court
A U.S. appeals court was asked on Friday to decide whether Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) and TCW Asset Management Co should have foreseen the housing market implosion that caused a $37 million loss for German state-owned Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg. Kristin Cavallari Foreclosure Woes: Parents Lose ‘The Hills’ House, Owed Same Amount As Jay Cutler's 2012 Salary
Cavallari's parents owed a sum that almost exactly matches Jay Cutler's 2012 salary. Kristin Cavallari's parents have lost their Laguna Beach home to foreclosure. Feddie Mac : U.S. Housing Market Is Recovering From Depression
There are signs that the housing market is awakening from its depression-like condition of the past few years and beginning, though slowly, to make a nascent recovery, according to the U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook for March from Freddie Mac.
