Party's over for many homebuyers stretching to qualify for a mortgage

It was fun while it lasted, but this weekend Fannie Mae will roll back popular changes that allowed homebuyers to qualify for mortgages with monthly payments that, together with their other existing obligations, could eat up as much as 50 percent of their gross income. Before Fannie Mae raised its 45
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Report: This is how Lake Conroe's housing market is doing compared to the rest of Texas' lake market. By Heather Leighton. Published 1:23 pm, Thursday, March 15, 2018. 87 Benthaven IsleListing price: $3,350,605Square footage: 9.251 Photo: Houston Association Of Realtors. window._taboola
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T> on Thursday said it will buy Sweden's Ovako which makes specialty steel used in industries including wind power generation and robotics, a move that gives Japan's biggest steelmaker a manufacturing base in Europe. The purchase, its second international foray announced this month, also gives
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“They were at the intersection of so many challenging trends, and they were at the wrong end of those trends,” said Michael Dart, a retail expert and a … The company was bought in 2005 by the private equity firms Bain Capital and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and the real estate firm Vornado Realty Trust.
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Earlier this year, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a skydiving company had violated a now-deceased instructor's Title VII rights when it unceremoniously fired him after a female client objected to the fact that he was gay. In 2017, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a community college
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BioDelivery Sciences International Inc (NASDAQ:BDSI), a pharmaceuticals company based in United States, saw significant share price volatility over the past couple of months on the NasdaqCM, rising to the highs of $3 and falling to the lows of $2.03. This high level of volatility gives investors the
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Black Knight ( BKI ) declined Thursday, slipping just under 1% to a session low of $48.50 a share, after the financial software company said Bank of the West was expanding its use of Black Knight's LoanSphere Exchange. The bank currently uses Exchange to place title insurance orders and will now
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Selling overseas is one of the key drivers for retailers of any size to use marketplaces – and if research by Whistl is to be believed, now is the time to tap into the growing love of British products abroad to make that happen. According to its research, 95% of foreign shoppers said that a 'Made in Britain'
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Blackstone's Strategic Capital Holdings Fund has bought a minority equity stake in Rockpoint, a real estate investment management firm based in Boston, for an undisclosed sum. Commenting on the deal, Blackstone president and COO Jon Gray added: “Blackstone's real estate business has had the
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A record $5 billion worth of mortgages sold in the December quarter of 2017 fell outside APRA's minimum loan serviceability buffers, as major lenders fight for market share and bigger profits in tougher real estate markets. That's a more than a three-fold increase in the number of loans that are in breach
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Agents geek out on real estate. Your go-to reading material might be a suspenseful thriller or something off of Amazon's hot reading list. But for real estate agents? You guessed it, the hot topic is always real estate. They research and watch the housing market religiously, stay on top of trends, attend
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As more than a dozen Democratic senators helped Republicans chip away at the Obama-era banking law Wednesday, Schumer largely stepped aside, rather than twist arms. It was a do-what-you-must strategy aimed at allowing some moderate Democratic senators to avoid the wrath of powerful
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home Continuous learning is a necessity for professionals in the servicing and mortgage industry. With this in mind, the Five Star Academy (FSA), a Five Star Institute brand, recently launched a learning platform with independent certification programs and courses written by experts from the housing and
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Learn how to deal with a lifetime of possessions and how to hire and manage a Realtor. Discover how to prepare and price your home; learn about local real estate market trends. Speaker is David J. Dowd, President of Sell Mom's House and a realtor with Keller Williams. Sign up at the Senior Center.
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Challenger bank OneSavings Bank has warned a cocktail of rising costs facing lenders could lead to higher UK mortgage rates, after warning investors its margins will deteriorate this year. The FTSE 250 buy-to-let mortgage lender posted strong 2017 profits and lending growth that beat City expectations
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The company's HR director Natasha Waterfield said: “It is really good that we can keep doing things to provide a good work life for our employees.” North Bar/North Brewing Co took the title of Best Brewing Pub Company for the second year in a row and operations manager Richard Fiddaman said: “I am
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., March 15, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Black Knight, Inc. (NYSE:BKI) announced today that Bank of the West, a financial services company headquartered in San Francisco, will expand its use of LoanSphere Exchange. The bank currently uses Exchange to place title insurance
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Tester has repeatedly said Dodd-Frank has led to his home state of Montana losing many small banks, particularly in rural areas. His comments made in defense of the bill on the Senate floor last week are mostly true in and of themselves, but taken together, they paint a misleading picture of Wall Street
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When the news hit that Amazon was in talks with several banks to launch a “checking account-like product,” naturally everyone feared the worst. After all, this is a company that's taken multi-billion-dollar bites out of at least five major industries in the past year, often with only minor announcements.
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