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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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Videos and other ad materials highlight homeowners who kept their houses through the Treasury Department’s Making Home Affordable Program.
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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--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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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 - 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.
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July 21--Despite steady declines in housing prices and mortgage interest rates, many Minnesotans -- even those with jobs -- still face formidable challenges when it comes to paying for a home.
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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's effort to help those at risk of losing their homes is failing to aid many and could spur a rise in foreclosures that would further depress the housing industry.
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WASHINGTON - The former Countrywide Financial Corp. gave preferential loans to more than three dozen employees of Fannie Mae while the two giant housing enterprises were locked in an expanding, multi-billion dollar business relationship in subprime mortgages, documents show.
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July 20--Kelly and Brent Standage didn't go into homeownership unrehearsed.
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July 20--The foreclosure epidemic in Memphis has slashed property values and drained government coffers, local officials said during a special U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee hearing Downtown.
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July 18--Keith and Julie Hanover felt like someone was trying to steal their home.