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  • Housing affordability pressures continue

    News.com.au - ... impacting on housing affordability, especially for first home buyers, are likely to worsen in 2008, the Real Estate Institute of Australia (REIA) warns. ... win first vote Perth blaze: Wild bushfires destroy homes Mortgage ...
    2008-01-03 06:53:00
  • Building industry economist gives rosy housing outlook - Press-Enterprise

    Building industry economist gives rosy housing outlookPress-Enterprise, CA - 1 hour agoNevin said there is sufficient mortgage money available at low enough interest rates to enable first-time buyers to enter the housing market with "decent" ...
    2008-01-03 07:10:20
  • Group says housing crisis will improve - abc7news.com

    Group says housing crisis will improveabc7news.com, CA - 1 hour agoInterest rates are projected to remain at roughly historical lows," said John Frith from the California Building Industry Association. ...
    2008-01-03 07:13:53
  • Rate cut pressure builds as Bank fears - Times Online

    Rate cut pressure builds as Bank fearsTimes Online, UK - 55 minutes agoWhat would you rather a meal a day or more profit on your home? A cut in rates would make food/fuel and lots of other imports more expensive as everyone ...
    2008-01-03 07:26:41
  • Army couple finds help after pain of Iraq, deaths of their 3 children - Dallas Morning News

    Army couple finds help after pain of Iraq, deaths of their 3 childrenDallas Morning News, TX - 54 minutes ago"But it's also a call for mortgage lenders and homebuilders to sell excess housing at discounted rates to provide a new start for other wounded warriors and ...
    2008-01-03 07:26:49
  • National Australia Bank Raises Mortgage Rates (Update2) - Bloomberg

    National Australia Bank Raises Mortgage Rates (Update2)Bloomberg - 13 minutes agoNational Australia, the country's second-biggest provider of mortgages, raised its interest rate for home loans that don't have a fixed rate by 12 basis ...
    2008-01-03 08:08:27
  • Dr. Peter Morici: US Recession Watch, the Jobs Report and Fed Policy - FinFacts Ireland

    Dr. Peter Morici: US Recession Watch, the Jobs Report and Fed PolicyFinFacts Ireland, Ireland - 4 minutes agoInvestors are reluctant to purchase mortgage-backed bonds that are not issued by Fannie Mae or other federally-sponsored underwriters. ...
    2008-01-03 08:17:16
  • Opening salvos in Albany (Press & Sun-Bulletin)

    ALBANY -- Taxpayers should come up with $180 million to give grants and other help to people who are in danger of losing their homes because they can't meet mortgage payments, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said Thursday.
    2008-01-03 06:40:52
  • Group says housing crisis will improve (KGO-TV Bay Area)

    A surprising new forecast for California's housing industry -- one prominent group is bucking the trend, by predicting brighter days ahead.
    2008-01-03 07:15:46
  • Rates On Mortgages Lowest In A Month (Hartford Courant)

    Rates on 30-year mortgages fell last week, to the lowest level in a month, as investors found new reasons to worry about a possible recession.
    2008-01-03 07:43:13
  • National Australia Bank Raises Mortgage Rates (Update2) (Bloomberg.com)

    Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- National Australia Bank Ltd. raised interest rates on mortgages to recoup higher funding costs, the first time in almost a decade a major lender has increased home loan rates without any action from the country's central bank.
    2008-01-03 08:14:58
  • Consumers late payers on most loans since recession

    Reuters - Lenders will need to take a second or third look at any consumer loans they make." Foreclosures set a record in the third quarter, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on December 6. Many borrowers have struggled to make mortgage payments as their ...
    2008-01-03 11:36:00
  • Tougher loans policy for all raises fears over force of credit squeeze

    Times Online - ... available mortgages already seen as a significant factor behind the housing market’s slow-down, and lenders’ fears of a weaker market, falling house prices, and rising mortgage defaults leading them to further restrict access to home loans, the ...
    2008-01-03 01:31:00
  • REFILE-DEALTALK-Banks face struggle in mortgage-backed LBO debt

    Reuters - NEW YORK, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Banks may struggle this quarter placing a planned $20 billion in commercial mortgage-backed securities related to previously agreed takeovers of marquee companies like Hilton Hotels Corp -- potentially leaving the loans on ...
    2008-01-03 03:40:00
  • Mortgage rates fall to one-month low

    MSNBC - Mortgage rates fall to one-month low 30-year, fixed-rate loans averaged 6.07 percent ... WASHINGTON - Rates on 30-year mortgages fell last week to the lowest level in a month as ...
    2008-01-03 01:17:00