Nationwide surprisingly slashes mortgage rates

Nationwide surprisingly slashes mortgage rates

Nationwide Building Society is cutting mortgage rates tomorrow despite speculation that the Bank of England could soon raise interest rates.
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First time homebuyers fall to 4th lowest share since 1981

First time homebuyers continue to struggle to enter the housing market amidst limited housing inventory, falling to the fourth lowest level since 1981,
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REITs Caught A Cold

Senior Housing – It has been known for quite some time that the senior housing market has become oversupplied. This is cutting into profitability,
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Mobile banking on course to topple branches

An increasing amount of British consumers now prefer to use their smartphones or other mobile devices to look after their banking, with physical
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Lennar acquires Irvine's CalAtlantic in $9.3 billion merger

The deal hatched amid a soaring housing market, featuring rising prices, robust sales and tight supplies of homes for sale, new and existing.
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Russia Indictment Exposes Paul Manafort's 'Lavish' Real Estate

The indictment describes how he arranged the real estate transactions, matching previous reporting about the purchases. For example, WNYC in New
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Kuwait real estate market gains traction in Q3 2017

KUWAIT: Activity in the real estate market is gaining traction with a pickup in sales … seen in other GCC real estate price indices despite slight divergence in trends. The residential sector remained supportive of the real estate market
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Pessimism About the Economy and Housing Dent Canadian Confidence

… eating into the disposable income of some families, and a federal regulator introduced measures this month to tighten access to mortgage financing.
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4 Housing Stocks to Buy as New Home Sales Rebound

The biggest challenge for the housing market is low supply. Factors like rising lumber and land costs as well as tight labor supply and shortage of land
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Rent or own? Best metros to buy a home

A survey from Freddie Mac found that 76 percent of renters feel renting is more affordable than owning a home, up from 65 percent in 2016, per The
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Retail vacancy rate nears 7-year high

Retail is arguably the weakest real estate sector right now and pessimism prevails, as many big chains close stores and more consumers bypass
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United Wholesale Mortgage Unveils New All-Encompassing Website Designed to Provide One …

1 wholesale mortgage lender in the nation, has announced the launch of their newly designed, fully integrated website that was built to serve as a
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Wal-Mart's UK CEO Swap Can't Cure a Sales Struggle

The U.K. arm of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Monday appointed Roger Burnley as chief executive officer, taking over from Sean Clarke. Burnley's route to
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KBRA Assigns Preliminary Ratings to FREMF 2017-K728 and Freddie Mac Structured Pass …

Freddie Mac will guarantee six classes of certificates issued in the underlying Series 2017-K728 securitization and will deposit the guaranteed
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Your mobile banking app may soon talk to you as area banks push new digital products

Three years ago JP Morgan's CEO Jamie Dimon warned banks that Silicon Valley was coming to eat their lunch. As they developed new digital baking
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Portland matches Seattle in 'severely unaffordable' housing ranking, makes Top 10 behind Calif …

For anyone in the city looking to buy a house, this is not a good thing. … Below are the 13 most unaffordable housing markets in the U.S., according to
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Quicken Loans Community Investment Fund launches 'Neighbor to Neighbor' campaign to connect …

DETROIT, Oct. 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — The Quicken Loans Community … Loans Inc. is the nation's second largest retail home mortgage lender.
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July 2017 Mortgage Risk Index from AEI's ICHR

The American Enterprise Institute's International Center on Housing Risk released its monthly update to the series on mortgage lending practices on
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Ex-Trump Aide Admits He Tried to Coordinate With Russians During Campaign

U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, tasked with pursuing collusion between Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia, just planted the first
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Trump Plans to Announce Fed Chair Nominee on Thursday

President Donald Trump plans to announce his choice for the next Fed chairman on Thursday, the day before he departs for a trip to Asia, a White
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