Alabama home prices up over last year, survey shows

Home prices in Alabama kept pace with the national average as they increased 5.1 percent over last year, according to a national survey. CoreLogic, a global property information, analytics and data company, released its monthly report today, saying U.S. home prices were up 6.7 percent over February
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The bridging lender has made six additions to its bridging team since the beginning of the year and is strengthening its business development capability with the appointment of Harry Hodell as a senior originator, who joins from Lendy. Fiduciam is also planning to hire a further 15 industry professionals
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Apr. 3, 2018 / PRZen / RALEIGH, N.C. — DeRonja Real Estate (DRE), a thriving, boutique residential real estate firm serving the Triangle area, has hired Hanes Joyner as a Broker. Hanes is committed to knowing the Triangle Real Estate Market inside and out, understanding the trends from community to
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Mortgage rates today opened lower than yesterday's. That's not surprising, given that yesterday's financial data were nearly all pointing toward interest rate reduction. Today is the second day in a row with no scheduled economic releases. So once again, mortgage borrowers must look to global political
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Investors Title Company (ITIC) stock changed 0.08% throughout last week and moved 3.28% spot during past one month. The shares price showing change of 1.01% so far this year and performed with flow of 37.17% during recent year. The shares price has positioned 0.23% over the past quarter while
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Tina Hill, Chartered Legal Executive at Hodgkinsons Solicitors, said: “Many people don't like the thought of making a Will because they think it's tempting fate, yet they are happy to take out life insurance to cover a mortgage or a loan. “It is important to make a Will at any time of life, even if you think you
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The contribution will support the CFE Fund's expansion of its Financial Empowerment Center (FEC) model in 12 cities: Akron, Ohio; Detroit; Greenville County, S.C.; Houston; Miami; New Haven, Conn.; Pittsburgh; Sacramento; San Francisco; Memphis; Shreveport, La. and Syracuse, N.Y. The CFE Fund
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President Donald Trump insisted via a Twitter message Tuesday that Amazon costs the U.S. Post Office “massive amounts of money,” the latest in a series of public attacks against the e-commerce giant. Trump's Twitter message—the fourth in less than a week aimed at Amazon—pushed the company's
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A rent-to-own or lease option is a contract that you can use to purchase a home in the future in terms you agree to today. If you fail to comply … If you don't word the agreement correctly, many mortgage lenders won't recognize that down payment you have so carefully amassed. You need to craft your
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Mark Warner spoke to employees of Freedom First and other local credit unions about legislation that would tweak the Dodd-Frank act, enacted after the crash of 2008, a recession fueled in part by risky banking practices. Some believe however that the stringent regulations put in place by Dodd-Frank
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The overall liquidity position of commercial banks decreased to N$1.85 billion at the end of February 2018, the Bank of Namibia stated. This decrease comes from a higher level of N$1.91 billion recorded in liquidity in in the preceding month, where it also decreased by N$1.2 billion (to reach N$1.91)
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ASB Real Estate Investments said it closed the sale of the 1.6 million square-foot data center and office building located northwest of downtown Dallas. Equinix – a California-Based global data center company which already has holdings in North Texas – bought the Infomart. Built in the mid 1980s by
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NEW YORK, April 3 (Reuters) – Kristin Tassi spent last weekend happily settling into her new home in the Chicago area, but part of her brain was still obsessing over the mortgage rate she got for it. “I don't think we'll ever not think about it,” said the 33-year-old public relations professional. After watching
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“From a public health point of view, that's a very bad idea.” Others wonder whether Paterson's fortunes have peaked: The major banks are starting to circle. Bank of Montreal and Toronto-Dominion have quietly been providing some banking services. Even Royal Bank and Scotiabank, which have been
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Executive Conversations is a HousingWire web series that profiles powerful people in the financial industry, highlighting the operations and the people that make this sector tick. In the latest installment, we sit down with Brian Deas, founder and principal of Manley Deas Kochalski, LLC and its related
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Rating website ICOindex.com gave the token a “scam status,” saying the project was missing critical information, from the description of the mechanism to its technology and supposed oil-backing. “We can discourage people from wasting money on this project,” the site reads. Another rating site
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Against this backdrop, the ICC Banking Commission's Annual Meeting is taking place from 3-6 April in Miami – a global gateway to Latin America as well as a major banking and financial hub. The meeting will bring together over 400 of the most influential trade finance experts, banking professionals,
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“Some of the largest banks, the top five, see a lot of investment in digital and into the future. Some of the regional banks are more challenged, and part of the reason is the huge reliance on technology vendors, so their ability to move quicker is somewhat limited. Market share is clearly moving toward the
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“We'd like to be the lender of choice for otherwise qualified borrowers who have less than perfect credit scores, and for the real estate agents and mortgage brokers who work with them,” said Ray Brousseau, President of Carrington Mortgage Services. “We believe there are millions of Americans who
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Yet if this was the only driver of house price growth, then we'd expect to have seen similar house price growth across the country – but we haven't. The map below shows changes in house prices across UK cities since 2009, when the Bank of England base rate was cut to the historic low of 0.5 per cent.
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