You might assume that with home purchases and new mortgage volume off by 30 percent or more in many markets in the past year, loan fraud would be down as well.
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Fewer Loans, But Still More Fraud
As Labor Day marks the end of summer and beginning of another school year, citizens presume that teachers are ready, but they may wonder if school buildings are, too.
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Restoring Schools to the Havens They Should Be
People who live in Taylorstown have made their choices: scenery over shopping, deer over drive-throughs.
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Taylorstown’s Still-Rural Radius
The slumping housing market hit Teresa Walsh hard. Seeking a better life for her two daughters, Walsh put her house in Menlo Park, Calif., on the market and moved to Bethesda.
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The Luck of the Landlords
In Greek mythology, a halcyon was a bird said to calm rough seas. “It also means peaceful and prosperous,” real estate agent Hugh Oates said.
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Centuries of Drama at Halcyon House
An increase in consumer complaints over the cancellation or reduction of home equity lines of credit has prompted one federal banking regulator to remind financial institutions about the laws governing this type of loan.
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A Wake-Up Call on Home Equity Loans
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of previously owned U.S. homes ticked higher in July thanks to lower prices, but record inventory suggested the battered housing market is unlikely to recover soon, a trade group report showed on Monday.
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Existing-homes sales rise, inventory swells
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pace of existing home sales in the United States rose in July to a 5.00 million-unit annual rate, the National Association of Realtors said in a report on Monday that showed prices dipped and the inventory of homes hit a record high.
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Existing home sales rose 3.1 percent in July
Cutting the price to get your home sold isn’t quite as simple as it seems.
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When Cutting the Price, Take a Big Bite, Not a Bunch of Nibbles
Not so long ago, Qiana Parker wouldn’t have had to give up her apartment or curtail her shoe-buying habit to save for a down payment on a house.
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Coming Up With the Cash
LOS ANGELES — Even though mortgage lenders have raised the bar on what it takes to qualify for a home loan, shopping for a loan online has gotten easier, if not necessarily less confusing.
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Mortgage Shopping, Incognito
Owings Beach is still cozy. There are still snug cottages, built in the 1920s for summer getaways to the bayside enclave in the Deale portion of southern Anne Arundel County. Narrow streets bearing local family names are still walkable because deep ditches and tight turns discourage traffic.
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Neighbors, Boats, Bayfront Summers And a Reverence For Tradition
Rates on 30-year mortgages fell this week to the lowest level since mid-July.
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30-Year Rates Dip to 6.47 Percent
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As soaring home prices set the stage for America’s great housing meltdown, a critical step in making sure those home sales were a fair deal — the real estate appraisal — was undermined from within.
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Appraisal Problems Worsened Meltdown
W e spend most of our waking hours either working to earn money or thinking about what we’ll do with it: spend it, save it or invest it, lawyer John Ventura observes in his book “Kiplinger’s Estate Planning: The Complete Guide to Wills, Trusts, and Maximizing Your Legacy” (Kaplan, $21.95).
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A Worthy Read to Get Serious About Estate Planning
