FHA revises loss mitigation options for hurricane victims

FHA revises loss mitigation options for hurricane victims

It also allows borrowers to keep their current interest rate and term of the FHA-insured mortgage, and expands the eligibility criteria for the Disaster
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US mortgage rates slips for second week: Freddie Mac

The 30-year fixed rate mortgage averages 4.53% for the week ending Aug. 16, 2018, down from 4.59% in the previous week, according to Freddie
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Freddie Mac Prices $629 Million Multifamily K-Deal, K-1506

MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) recently priced a new offering of Structured Pass-Through
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US housing starts miss expectations; weekly jobless claims fall again

… rate has risen about 60 basis points this year to an average of 4.59 per cent, according to data from mortgage finance agency Freddie Mac.
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Springfield police warn about real estate scams, arrest 2 accused of renting out home they did not …

Some of the scams have been elaborate, with thieves copying pictures from Zillow and other real estate websites into their fake ads. In one case, a
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Wayne Salentine served as Muskego's mayor for nearly 12 years, but his community involvement …

… going to work for Realty Center in Muskego in the 1990s after his final term as mayor and then starting up his own real estate firm, R & W Realty with
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Mortgage Rates Step Back

MCLEAN, Va., Aug. 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) today released the results of its Primary Mortgage Market Survey
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Record Growth Earns RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Inc. 5000 Recognition

Having achieved growth of more than 270 percent over the last three years, Inc. magazine has ranked RoundPoint Mortgage Servicing Corporation
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Home building fails to break out in July

“After last month's decline, July's total residential permits bounced back,” Freddie Mac Chief Economist Sam Khater said. “However, it's clear that the
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Bringing blockchain to real estate: Q&A

Imbrex is an Ethereum blockchain based real estate marketplace. The aim is to open communication channels between the world's real estate
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Top D-FW commercial real estate deals for the week of August 13

Jim Breitenfeld and Jim Turano with Henry S. Miller Brokerage brokered the sale with Brian Buell of Alliance Commercial Real Estate Group Inc.
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Facebook Admits Being Too Slow In Dealing With Its Myanmar Violence Role

Facebook has admitted being too slow in combating the use of its platform to perpetuate violence in Myanmar. Online vitriol has for a long time
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China Talks, Tencent Tumble, Turkey and Qatar: CEO Daily for August 16, 2018

MSA Capital managing partner Ben Harburg makes several interesting points in his piece for Fortune about the unbalanced information flow from the
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Bayer Stock Keeps Falling as Its Monsanto Woes Stack Up

Bayer stock continues to slide in the wake of last week's bombshell verdict on the carcinogenic nature of Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller.
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What NYU's Stunning Move to Give All Medical Students Free Tuition Really Means

On Thursday, NYU made a stunning announcement: All of the renowned institution's medical students will be awarded full tuition scholarships.
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BNP Paribas reshuffles Asia transaction banking team

French bank BNP Paribas has made a series of senior appointments to its transaction banking team in Asia Pacific. Mahesh Kini (pictured) joins as
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Orlando Magic Teams Up with Award-Winning Real Estate Giant

With the Magic's mission to be world champions both on and off the court, Dorman brings his award-winning real estate knowledge for a perfect
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T. rex makes a cameo in hilarious real estate listing photos

If you've ever spent time looking at real estate pictures, you know they start to all look the same. Oh look, another fireplace. And there's an island in the
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Why de Blasio has gone begging to real-estate bigwigs

The Post's Aug. 12 scoop that Mayor de Blasio's top deputies held scores of previously undisclosed meetings with real-estate lobbyists last spring
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Average mortgage rates come down to earth

Average mortgage rates fell, including the largest week-over-week drop in the past 12 months, according to Freddie Mac. Despite the all-around drop,
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The Gap Between CEO and Worker Pay Is Nearing Pre-Financial Crisis Levels

The Gap Between CEO and Worker Pay Is Nearing Pre-Financial Crisis Levels

While the U.S. stock market has soared since President Donald Trump's 2016 election, those rising tides have disproportionately boosted the salaries
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PepsiCo Is Creating a New Unit to Develop Smaller Brands

… there won't be as many new multi-billion dollar brands since consumers have more choices amid a shifting retail landscape, Kaufman tells Fortune.
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CDC Determines What Caused 647 Chipotle Customers to Get Sick

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed that clostridium perfringens caused a number of people to get sick after eating at an
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Six Flags' Neat Trick Is Costing Me a Fortune

I'm shuttling my youngest son through Texas this week, and it's all Six Flags' (NYSE:SIX) fault. Earlier this summer, I bought a season pass at Six Flags
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Turkey: Banking watchdog puts new limits on FX swaps

Turkish banks' foreign currency swap transactions cannot pass over 25 percent of their equities, Turkey's Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency
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Banking on Education drive underway

LCEF's third annual Banking on Education began in July and will go through Aug. 28 at select locations. For a $20 ticket, participants can put their
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Elon Musk Wants a Boring Tunnel to Transport LA Fans to Dodger Stadium in Under 4 Minutes

Even less predictable than how long a baseball game will last is how long it will take to drive to and from it through L.A. traffic. On Wednesday, Elon
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US, Mexico plan to target drug cartels' $29bn fortune

The US and Mexico have announced a new front in their battle against drug cartels, modelled on the capture of Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin 'El
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Walmart Stock Jumps 9% on Best Sales Growth in a Decade

Who says traditional retailers can't compete with Amazon.com? Walmart Inc (wmt, -0.09%) reported on Thursdaythat its U.S. comparable sales rose
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NY Life Insurance CEO Says "Take the Emotion Out of Investing"

Speaking to Fortune's Susie Gharib, Mathas says, “We continue to see growth around the world with the U.S. being a strong provider of growth.
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Rare Nickel Sells for Record-Breaking $4.5 Million

A rare 1913 Liberty Head nickel fetched a lot of pocket change Wednesday night at a Philadelphia auction, selling for more than $4.5 million.
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Patent Attorney – In-House

Patent Attorney – In – House Our client, a large corporation, has an opening for an in-house intellectual property attorney in their Houston, TX…
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Trump's Military Parade Is Now Estimated to Cost $92 Million: Report

Trump's military parade is now estimated to cost taxpayers $80 million more than the original figure. The event, intended to honor the nation's veterans
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Twilio Hires Ex-Video Game Executive Nils Puhlmann as Its Security Chief

Puhlmann plans to help improve the resilience of Twilio's corporate IT systems as well as those of its clients, he told Fortune on a call.
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Trump Renews Attack on Media as News Outlets Push Back

President Trump labeled the news media as “the opposition party” Thursday, launching a renewed Twitter attack against what he's termed the “fake
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After Google Gets Caught Tracking Users' Locations Without Permission, It Makes Changes—to a …

Google did not immediately respond to a Fortune request for comment. With the revelation that users cannot easily turn off tracking, Google has
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An Australian Teenager Reportedly Hacked Apple's Network

An Australian teenager with technical know-how reportedly hacked into Apple's network and accessed sensitive corporate information. The teenager
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How Aretha Franklin Earned the Music Industry's RESPECT

Aretha Franklin has died at her home in Detroit, according to the Associated Press, following reports she was gravely ill. She was 76 years old.
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Banking On Coal Mining – US Banks' Performance Against Their Policies Since 2015

Following Trump's inauguration, major U.S. banks increased financing for coal, demonstrating loopholes in policies adopted in response to the Paris
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First Direct tops Britain's first banking quality survey

LONDON (Reuters) – First Direct, Metro Bank and Nationwide Building Society came top in Britain's first mandatory sector-wide customer surveys to
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Yarmouth boys soccer team aiming for 5th title in a row

Yarmouth boys soccer team aiming for 5th title in a row

Yarmouth boys soccer team aiming for 5th title in a row …. a job with a local company because of her “ghetto” name, but the company's CEO said they
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Investors Title Co (ITIC) to pay $0.40 on Sep 17, 2018; 4 Analysts Covering Beacon Roofing …

Investors Title Co (NASDAQ:ITIC) is expected to pay $0.40 on Sep 17, 2018. (NASDAQ:ITIC) shareholders before Aug 31, 2018 will receive the $0.40
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Buyer beware: 3 ways to protect yourself from real estate wire fraud

First, hackers gaining access to a title company or real estate agent's email account, silently watching for upcoming home purchases and then
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What You Must Know About International Money Express Inc's (NASDAQ:IMXI) Major Investors

I am going to take a deep dive into International Money Express Inc's (NASDAQ:IMXI) most recent ownership structure, not a frequent subject of
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'Evil' interest rates and a currency crisis: Why Turkey is spooking investors

International investors are abandoning Turkey en masse, spooked by an authoritarian president bent on pushing bizarre economic policies.
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FBI warns of top cyber threat

“Imagine you're a title company trying to facilitate the transfer of funds between real estate agencies, and that real estate agent is not a real person,
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Stewart Title Commemorated Stewart Morris Sr.'s 80 Years of Service

From residential and commercial title insurance and closing and settlement services to specialized offerings for the mortgage industry, we offer the
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Foreigners snapping up homes in your hood? Not in this nation

The bulk of the foreign buyers were from China. … The law to ban foreigners from buying existing homes in New Zealand was passed Wednesday in
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Which Stock Worth Buying, ARRIS International plc (ARRS) or Strongbridge Biopharma plc (SBBP)

The shares of ARRIS International plc (NASDAQ:ARRS) and Strongbridge Biopharma plc (NASDAQ:SBBP) were among the active stocks of the last
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The global arms trade is booming. Buyers are spoiled for choice

For the likes of India, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, “this is a buyer's market,” says Lucie Béraud-Sudreau of the International
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Black Knight platform offers 'actionable' intelligence

Black Knight Chief Product Officer Shelley Leonard told The Title Report that the company's new platform helps mortgage lenders and servicers with
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Why have nations fallen out of love with US Treasury bonds?

It's the world's safest and most actively-traded financial instrument – and … Yet it seems some international investors have fallen out of love with US
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Toyota ends title sponsorship of Long Beach Grand Prix after 39 years

Obviously, you don't have a 44-year partnership with a company and not have great thoughts and feelings for that company,” said Michaelian
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Title Alliance Appoints Danielle Johnson as Manager for Title Alliance Partners of Virginia

Title Alliance, Ltd, a RESPA-compliant ESOP leader in joint ventured title insurance agencies, announced today it has appointed Danielle Johnson as
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New Zealand to VCs and hedge fund managers buying up its land: No more

The move to block foreign buyers isn't a complete shock in lieu of the amount of publicity that New Zealand has garnered in recent years as a haven
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What you need to know about buying a home on Long Island

Christine Petersen, the general manager of global relocation and referrals for Daniel Gale Sotheby's International Realty, advises buyers to have an
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Advent, THL Partners interested in buying Matt Firm

NEW YORK – The New York Post is reporting that Advent International, … it said that THL Partners has also expressed interest in buying the retailer.
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eBay aims for an easier parts-buying experience

The international online retailer's automatic section – eBay Motors – has added a feature called “Shop by Diagram” to make finding parts easier for
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Boring Title: Great Tips to Be a More Effective Real Estate Agent

Title insurance is boring, but Allied Title & Escrow is here to decode the jargon and make it (somewhat) more interesting. This biweekly column will
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Wells Fargo & Company Trimmed By $601378 Its Investors Title Co (ITIC) Stake; Middlefield Banc …

Wells Fargo & Company sold 3,022 shares as Investors Title Co (ITIC)'s … Some Historical ITIC News: 05/03/2018 Investors Title Company Declares
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Home Listing Price Cuts Becoming More Common, Especially at the High End

Home Listing Price Cuts Becoming More Common, Especially at the High End

The share of pricier homes available for sale at a discount from their original list price is growing, even as sellers of less-expensive homes seem
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San Diego housing market seeing more price cuts

While the rise in home values has seen a slight decrease, they're still on the rise. That combines with higher interest rates means San Diegans still pay
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12 hottest housing markets of summer 2018

With the housing market facing a severe shortage of inventory nationwide, house hunters are snapping up the relatively few properties that are hitting
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How HUD Can Help the Housing Market

That includes addressing the inflationary and pro-cyclical role federal credit easing has played during the current six-year housing price boom.
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In Hot Housing Market, Know these Facts on Home Improvements

The Capital Region's housing market has experienced many of the same pressures that other areas of the state and nation have felt in recent months.
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FHA pushing to provide foreclosure relief to Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands hurricane victims

… Virgin Islands whose mortgages are guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration was due to end this week, but the FHA announced Thursday
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Could the Lehigh Valley housing market be heading for a cool-down?

It's happening in larger, pricier housing markets: Buyers are starting to get fatigued, indicated by modest drops in existing home sales, mostly in
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Black Knight launches new intelligence platform

Black Knight announced Wednesday its new LoanSphere Actionable Intelligence Platform, which will utilize the company's data and technology
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California's housing market retreats for third straight month as affordability crunch dampens …

16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — California's housing market backpedaled in July on an annual basis for the third consecutive month as higher interest rates
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Housing market battle between opposing forces

The country's housing market is now a battle between two powerful opposing forces: the Government looking to quell prices while the Reserve Bank's
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Buy! Bye! BYE! Real Estate In The World's Most Expensive City

All this has worked to create a perfect storm that has caused the London housing market to contract. Since early 2017 a steady decline in property
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Affordable Housing Crisis: What You Must Know About The Housing Bubble

A decade after the housing crash triggered the Great Recession, housing markets in many of America's most dynamic cities have hit a different kind of
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Rising rates imperil world's priciest property market

A booming Hong Kong property market is at risk. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority was forced to intervene and buy the local currency this week for
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Sponsored Brief: A more balanced housing market

Increased inventory, higher interest rates, rent stabilization, and buyer fatigue are some of the reasons we're experiencing a more balanced housing
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California Housing Market Cools

LOS ANGELES, CA — California's housing market is showing signs of slowdown as affordability limits demand. In July, the market backpedaled with
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Senate Banking Committee announces new date for CFPB director vote

Senate Banking Committee announces new date for CFPB director vote

After initially postponing its vote on the future director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and
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DOJ releases emails of RBS bankers joking about crashing housing market before 2008

Employees at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) joked about crippling the U.S. housing market before the 2008 financial crisis, according to transcripts
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Inc. Magazine names fastest-growing mortgage companies

Also a HousingWire Tech100 winner, Land Gorilla is a construction lender tech company that boasts over 30 years of experience in construction
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Stratford home to sizzling housing market

It continues to be a strong housing market in Stratford. The Huron Perth Association of Realtors says 209 units sold in July which is a 22 per cent
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Clear Capital appoints Sheila Ryan chief people officer

Clear Capital, a national fintech company and HousingWireTech100 award winner in both 2017 and 2018, recently announced it appointed Sheila
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Metro Vancouver housing market ranked 5th most overvalued in the world

Another global financial publication is reaffirming what we know about the local real estate market: housing prices do not match local income levels.
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Uphams Corner housing prices in August averaging $328 a square foot: Report

The average asking price for market-rate homes in Dorchester's Uphams Corner area as of early August was $328 a square foot, according to an
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Freddie Mac: Mortgage rates decrease slightly but there's no relief in sight

Additionally, newly released data indicated that housing affordability reached a 10-year low in the second quarter of 2018. The 15-year FRM inched
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Housing starts ticked up in July

Privately owned housing starts increased in July to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.17 million, up 0.9% from June's 1.16 million, however this is
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A slight chill coming for the Bay Area housing market?

Could the super-heated Bay Area real estate market be showing small signs of cooling? More sellers in San Jose have been lowering their prices on
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Building a MarTech stack for the digital transformation era

… I talked with Trey Rigdon from Movement Mortgage and Sarah Wheeler from HousingWire about digital transformation in the mortgage industry.
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Alberta resale housing market continues to struggle

The bank's Canadian Housing Market Forecast Update said sales in 2018 are expected to drop by 5.8 per cent from 2017 to 53,900 units. But it says
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There are signs the US economy is approaching its speed limit

Housing starts in July, for instance, were negative over the year for the … And that slowing momentum comes with the market expecting that the
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RBS bankers joked about crashing the US housing market and likened mortgage trading at the …

Royal Bank of Scotland faces fresh embarrassment after it emerged its bankers joked about destroying America's housing market before the financial
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Confidence in housing market slowing rising

“Interestingly, the survey responses reflect the dichotomy we are observing in the New Zealand housing market at present. Softer house price
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US Housing Shortage Drives Prices Up in Midwest

Rising energy prices are driving home sales and price growth in America's oil boomtowns, according to a report Realtor.com released Thursday.
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Housing market shifts to buyer's market

Housing market shifts to buyer's market … CNBC's Diana Olick reports on homebuyers gaining negotiating power as more listings see price cuts.
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Senate Democrats push CFPB to retain oversight of military lending

Senate Democrats continue to push back against a decision by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop supervising lending made to active
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July housing starts up a slight 0.9 percent as tariffs bite

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. housing starts ticked up just 0.9 percent in July, a sign that higher construction costs might be weighing on homebuilders.
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Goodbye refi: Rising interest rates all but erase refinance demand

The decreases are smaller but still noticeable in both Federal Housing Administration and Department of Veterans Affairs lending. For FHA loans, the
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Towd Point Mortgage Funding 2018 – Auburn 12 PLC — Moody's assigns definitive ratings to UK …

Towd Point Mortgage Funding 2018 – Auburn 12 PLC — Moody's assigns definitive ratings to UK …

Towd Point Mortgage Funding 2018 – Auburn 12 PLC — Moody's assigns definitive ratings to UK RMBS Notes issued by Towd Point Mortgage Funding
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Looking for a luxury home? 23 cities become million-dollar housing markets

Buyers looking for a luxury home might be in luck. According to new data, the country will gain 23 more million-dollar housing markets by the end of
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Lacklustre mortgage market prompts call for more incentives for buyers

There were 34,900 new first time buyer mortgages completed in the month, down 3.6% compared to the same month a year earlier with £5.8 billion of
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London property slump puts brake on UK house price growth

UK house price growth slowed in June to the lowest annual rate in five years, driven by falling prices in London, according to official figures. Average
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New Zealand poised to crack down on foreign home buyers

New Zealand's government is poised to ban foreigners from buying residential property, making good on its promise to crack down on offshore
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London house prices continue to fall

House prices in London have fallen at their fastest pace since 2009 as the capital's property market continues to cool, official figures have shown.
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Homebuilder sentiment falls to the lowest point in almost a year as affordability becomes a bigger …

A contractor carries boards through a house under construction at the Lennar … The housing market has been softening for the last several months,
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Mortgage Company Tells Real-Time Cost Of Video Game Property Including A House in Skyrim

Mortgage Company Tells Real-Time Cost Of Video Game Property Including A House in Skyrim

Following this tendency to know the cost of video game property L&C Mortgages decided to figure out and convey the real-time prices of video game
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Adam Constantine, digital content strategist at Movement Mortgage, to speak at engage.marketing

He works with video, design and web teams to create original and engaging content across all of Movement's digital platforms and coordinates with
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RBS pays $4.9 bln for crisis-era misconduct, customer survey hurts too

Royal Bank of Scotland will pay $4.9 billion to settle U.S. claims that it misled investors on residential mortgage-backed securities between 2005 and
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Builder Confidence Retreats Once Again

Builder Confidence Retreats Once Again

The Index, a joint product of the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) … NAHB Chairman Randy Noel said, “The good news is that builders
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New American Funding Makes Sixth Appearance on Inc. 5000 List

Inc. Magazine has ranked New American Funding on its Inc. 5000 list for the fastest-growing private companies in America. The national mortgage
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BNP Paribas makes five key transaction banking appointments

The French bank intends to boost its presence in China and the Asia Pacific region. It's promoting three senior staff and poached two from Deutsche
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Housing inventory missing over 6 million new homes: Zillow

There were 3.9 permits issued per 1,000 residents nationwide to construct a single-family home between 1985 and 2000. That pace fell to 1.9 permits
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Trulia Debuts Homebuying App

Trulia has introduced Trulia Neighborhoods, an app that incorporates crowdsourced information, including original photography, and drone footage,
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Canadian home sales climb in July on Toronto gains

Transactions nationwide rose 1.9% from June to 38,612, bringing them … “This year's new stress-test on mortgage applicants continues to weigh on
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Are Millennials' Growing Negative to Homebuying?

The hopes that Millennials will fuel a new wave of homebuying may have hit a pothole, according to the latest Modern Homebuyer Survey released by
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Nation's Priciest Foreclosure Hits the Market

According to a Realtor.com report, the 40-acre property in Saint Helena, Calif., features five bedrooms, 8.5 baths, two laundry rooms, a fitness center
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