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July 30--The 4.5 percent fixed-rate mortgage is here, although more than 14 months late.
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July 30--New-home prices will drop another 5 percent this year and stay essentially flat in 2011 as builders compete with more foreclosures and short sales, a Las Vegas housing analyst said Thursday at his quarterly presentation.
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NEW YORK - Mortgage rates are the most affordable in decades for those who can qualify for a loan.
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NEW YORK - Mortgage rates dropped to the lowest level on record for the fifth time in six weeks, making homebuying and refinancing the most attractive in decades for those who can get loans.
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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration is revising the latest report on its troubled mortgage-relief program, and the changes are likely to show a greater number of borrowers facing foreclosure after having their loans modified.
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Videos and other ad materials highlight homeowners who kept their houses through the Treasury Department’s Making Home Affordable Program.
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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration, which has been under fire for not developing a concrete plan for mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, says it will hold a conference next month to discuss their future.
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July 27--The cranes that once soared atop South Florida's skyline and the heavy machinery that hummed along below are mostly gone.
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WASHINGTON - Thought the housing crisis was over?
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WASHINGTON - A flurry of strong earnings reports renewed Wall Street's optimism in the economic recovery, even as new data Thursday showed homes sales sinking and claims for unemployment benefits rising.
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July 22--Even as the economic recovery sputters, the home-mortgage crisis that helped trigger the recession appears to be easing.
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July 22--When Frank Robuck and Frank Morisey met Mark Barker last year, they didn't know their discussion would lead to the creation of a company.
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July 22--In the Bungalow Belt of northwest Chicago, houses sink into the morass of foreclosure every day, leaving behind boarded-up windows, scraggly lawns, plummeting home values and an unintended invitation for squatters to settle in.
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July 22--The number of Orlando-area homeowners able to fight off foreclosure with permanent changes to their mortgages has jumped in the past three months, a new report shows.
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WASHINGTON - Reveling over a new milestone in his presidency, a triumphant Barack Obama on Wednesday signed into law the most sweeping overhaul of lending and high-finance rules since the Great Depression, adding safeguards for millions of consumers and aiming to restrain Wall Street excesses that...
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July 21--After seven years of married life in a 1,500-square-foot Battle Ground house, Casey and Jenni Holyk are ready to spread out to a larger family home with acreage where they can raise their two young children.
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WASHINGTON - Two years after the global financial system nearly collapsed, a vast revamping of regulation has been signed into law.
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WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama aims to usher in a new era of consumer protections and banking restrictions Wednesday, checking off another legislative victory just before election-year politics overtake the rest of his major agenda.
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NEW YORK - Applications for home loans rose last week as rates on 30-year and 15-year fixed-rate loans sank to the lowest levels on the survey's record.
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WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke heads to Congress Wednesday with a message of reassurance: The Fed stands ready to take new steps to bolster the recovery if the economy worsens.