Frederic Papp: «Is a 1990s-Style Real Estate Drama Looming?»

Frederic Papp: «Is a 1990s-Style Real Estate Drama Looming?»

Swiss banks are asking for looser criteria to grant mortgages, pension funds are … More caution is advised to dial back rampant mortgage lending.
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CoreLogic Inc.: CoreLogic Reports Home Equity Increased $726 Billion in the Third Quarter …

In Q3 2016, the total number of mortgaged residential properties with negative equity stood at 3.2 million, or 6.3 percent of all homes with a mortgage.
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Australia's largest real estate agency is on fire with $4.2 billion in sales in one month only

​Australia's largest real estate agency, Ray White Group, is on fire. It's going so well nationally yet it still had to poach a Queensland auctioneer to go
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A single mother, stuck in a house she can't afford

Non-mortgage debts: Car loan, $8,000. A loan from a family … Biggest financial regret as a homeowner: “Remortgaging the house. Not purchasing a
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Raise Fannie Mae's and Freddie Mac's Guarantee Fees and Decrease Their Eligible Loan Limits

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) that were federally chartered to help ensure a stable supply of financing
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Kelowna's hot real estate market expected to cool in 2017

The Okanagan real estate market was hot in 2016 with prices reaching heights we've never seen before. Now market analysts are forecasting how the
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Latest RMBS Fix: Better Bondholder Communication

One of latest proposals for reviving the private-label residential mortgage market involves improving communications between issuers and investors.
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Housing prices expected to jump: Re/Max

Halifax's residential real estate market enjoyed a “strong” seven-per-cent increase in average sale prices during 2016, according to a report released
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Keller Williams SOHA Team is HIRING MOTIVATED REAL ESTATE AGENTS

KELLER WILLIAMS IS HIRING AND TRAINING MOTIVATED REAL ESTATE AGENTS! If you are looking to build a career in real estate, or looking to
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Commercial real estate executives told to keep tabs on upcoming tax reform efforts

The coming year for commercial real estate executives will be filled with uncertainty because of a stated push for tax reform by President-elect Donald
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Italy to nationalise world's oldest bank as fury mounts over EU conduct

Italy is to nationalise Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena as soon as this weekend, wiping out investors in a dramatic escalation of the country's banking
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Leveraging LinkedIn's unseen impact

LinkedIn is becoming an 800-pound gorilla impacting banking. Yes, banking. Even for some veteran bankers not normally engaged in social media or
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The Zacks Investment Research Lowered Old Republic International Corp. (ORI) to Sell

335,736 shares of the company's stock traded hands. … General Insurance Group, Title Insurance Group and the Republic Financial Indemnity Group
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What we learned about Canadians' finances

The tool tells readers what percentage of their take-home pay is being used for key monthly expenditures (eg. mortgages, car leases, daycare, etc.)
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Nashville Housing Market Hot Despite National Slowing Holiday Trend

Small business owner and broker Elizabeth Gatlin has been entrenched in the housing market as of late. While the holiday season has typically
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Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation Introduces New Mobile App

9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Fairway Independent Mortgage Corporation will release the FairwayNOW mobile application in January, giving consumers
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Is this the end of mortgage rates that start with a 3?

Mortgage rates, along with most interest rates, have climbed for six straight weeks, that is to say, since just before the Nov. 8 elections. Rates have
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Brennan: 90 percent of rock school funding came from payday lending

The closure of a music academy for Sioux Falls youth left many readers with questions. The announcement of the closure of the Brennan Rock & Roll
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Vail Daily column: Trump appointments send conflicting messages

As secretary of the treasury, Steven Mnuchin will probably be a key decision maker on the future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which fund about 90
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Santander to expand small-business lending under new hire

Seth Goodall, formerly the SBA's regional administrator for New England, is now Santander's director of SBA lending, a new role at the Boston-based
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