City among the worst in nation for housing affordability

According to Nationwide's Health of Housing Report, Rochester is the third worst for housing affordability in the nation among 400 metropolitan statistical areas. It's “characterized by deteriorating affordability as rapid price house gains reduce the ability of households to purchase a home,” the late 2017
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Preparing to rent? Then expect to fork over some extra cash early in the process. In addition to the first month's rent, your landlord will likely require you to pay a security deposit. This protects a landlord from risk. But smart renters will want to look after themselves themselves, too, by protecting their
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Working with Legal & General Mortgage Club for more than 10 years, I have regular meetings with key broker accounts to assist with fulfilling their growth strategies, allowing them to work efficiently with the club and make the most of the opportunities available. As I work closely with a variety of trade
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Mortgage rates held steady this week, according to Freddie Mac. The 30-year fixed mortgage averaged 4.45% for the week ending March 22, essentially unchanged from 4.44% the previous week. Favorable mortgage rates have helped propel U.S. home sales and the refinance market.
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When CEOs speak out on hot-button social issues, how does it affect their companies' stock prices? That's the question the Harvard Business Review asked recently, creating this cool interactive graphic to explore. In some cases—Merck CEO Ken Frazier's strong rebuke of President Trump's waffling on
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Without question, Dallas-Fort Worth's industrial real estate market is among the strongest in the nation. According to Cushman & Wakefield research, the region closed 2017 with nearly 26 million square feet in occupancy growth—a new record. And construction deliveries for the year, at 27.4 million
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The institutional investor owned 124,067 shares of the medical device company's stock after buying an additional 7,673 shares during the quarter. Schwab Charles Investment Management Inc. owned approximately 0.68% of Orthofix International worth $6,787,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.
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Overall the government will spend $10.2 billion on the 90 F-35s it is buying, including spare parts and engines. Another program to receive a boost is the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. The Pentagon had asked for 14 new fighters for the Navy, but will now get 24 for a total spend of $1.8 billion. Despite
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(Press Release) — The Joeten Daidai Foundation will once again be a Title Sponsor for the Marianas March Against Cancer, marking another year of contribution and … Title sponsorship is given to one company or organization that has made a donation worth over $3,000 in cash or in-kind services.
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The number of mortgages approved by high street banks fell by 11 per cent in February compared with a year earlier, suggesting that activity in the UK's housing market remains lacklustre. Mortgage approvals for purchases fell to 38,120 on a seasonally adjusted basis, down from 40,031 in January and
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Accord does not require affordability assessments, valuations or credit checks for straightforward mortgage switches. Accord national intermediary sales manager David Robinson says: “Brokers have told us that they prefer the ease of conducting product transfers online, so we hope that our new process
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New Delhi, Mar 26 (UNI) Nucleus Software, the leading provider of lending and transaction banking solutions to the global financial services industry, on Monday announced that the company has won the award for the “Best Lending Technology Implementation of the Year” at the Banking, Financial
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Bondholders also demanded access to the company's documents. And then there were three: Fidelity National Financial agreed to pay $1.2 billion for rival Stewart, making the already starved-for-competition title industry a further oligopoly. Together, the Big 4 in the space (Fidelity, First American, Old
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On the sidelines on the conference, bluenotes sat down with Nicholas Giurietto, the CEO & Managing Director of ADCA and Nigel Dobson, Banking Services Domain Lead Digital Banking, ANZ, to chat about their impressions of the major themes from the conference. Below is an edited transcript of that
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Paragon is introducing a proc fee for intermediaries who submit further advance business for buy-to-let customers that subsequently completes. Paragon will pay fees for further advance business at the same rate as intermediaries' standard business terms for new mortgage applications, typically 0.5% of
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“These issues don't seem related to Russia, but at times prosecutors take a very broad view of what's relevant.” Scheindlin, the retired judge, said that given Trump's credibility problems, his lawyers have a basic concern in shielding him. “This man doesn't take the truth too seriously, which is why his
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… experience in their office environment. That means that we need to forget “office” and start thinking in terms of “workplace” — a mindset shift that will help commercial real estate professionals understand the trends that will challenge our industry's most fundamental assumptions in the coming years.
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Title this, Real Estate Agent: What Job Not to Seek as a Career. … Look at this excerpt from a story on AI and the real estate sector, from CNBC: “Instead of hiring a real estate agent, Ron and Marilyn Hougardy essentially recruited a computer to sell their four-bedroom home in Thousand Oaks, California.
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