Weekly wrap: Fentanyl, foreign real estate and furry intruders

Weekly wrap: Fentanyl, foreign real estate and furry intruders

Another set of stories our audience was keen on this week were related to another hot-button issue: foreign investment in Vancouver real estate.
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Improved Mortgage Rates Quoted at Quicken Loans, PHH Saturday Sep 24, 2016

Shorter term, popular 15 year fixed rate mortgages at the bank have been quoted at 2.75% yielding an APR of 3.107% today. In the ARM arena, 5 year
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Notable Pattern: Severn Bancorp, Inc. Stock Faces Lower Risks Forward After Forming Bullish …

Personal services include mortgage lending and various other lending services, as well as checking, savings, money market, time deposit and
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The Nation's 50 Highest Demand ZIP Codes Of 2016

The areas that landed on their list represent less expensive neighborhoods that give buyers a chance to live in or close to expensive housing markets.
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Today's Chart Runner: Could Income Opportunity Realty Investors Inc Gain Strenght After Forming …

… direct acquisitions, leases and partnerships and financing real estate and real estate related activities through investments in mortgage loans.”.
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Don't count on a 'cooling off' period in real estate: Ask Joe

This isn't possible with any other type of real estate purchase. Unless you're buying a newly built condo or there is a written provision in the agreement
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Bruce Berkowitz, facing rough patch, bucks conventional wisdom by betting big

Those picks include Bank of America; preferred shares of government-controlled Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; northwest Florida developer St. Joe
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A just Nashville means community housing not capitalism

The lack of affordable housing in Nashville exposes a capitalist system … By definition a capitalist housing market reproduces inequality and has the
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Banking credit of commercial banks in Oman rises 8.6 per cent

The CBO bulletin pointed out that the import sector received OMR1,137.8 million or 5.9 per cent of the credit granted for the commercial banks during
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Financial services aren't tacos

Wannemacher believes that bank digital teams should be looking to the next generation bots for their foray into bot-driven banking conversations.
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With increased competition from larger banks, Bank Black movement faces challenges

Seaway Bank personal banker Gabrielle Simmonds helps Troy Mackey and his fiancee, Lori Roper, open a new account at the bank. Friday
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Peak Design can tote the title of the second most crowdfunded company in history

Camera bag company Peak Design is toting around a new title as the second most crowdfunded company in history. The company has now raised
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Are small, cheap mortgage lenders as safe as the big banks?

Hi Nicole, We have $138,000 left on a mortgage with the Dragon Saint [St George]. We are currently at 4.29 per cent and our term currently stands at
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Wells Fargo Sued Over Firings for Missed Account Quotas

The lawsuit offers details of how low-level bankers were allegedly pushed to create at least 10 new accounts a day in a sales initiative that has blown
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How to get CECL done?

Community bankers and their advocates have warned that the new accounting standard, called the Current Expected Credit Loss model or CECL, will
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Fresno bank teams up with Bay Area company to help fund businesses

Fresno First Bank and Breakaway Funding this week introduced a hybrid crowdfunding process for business lending. It takes the new world of
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Data breach threats never take holidays

Bank tech trends can make your head spin. So regularly longtime Tech Exchange Editor John Ginovsky does his best to “make sense of it all.”.
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One third of China's 3000 peer-to-peer lending platforms 'problematic': new report

One third of more than 3,000 peer-to-peer online lending platforms on the Chinese mainland have been found to be problematic, an annual report on
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New loft in Corktown sells for $500000

Detroit's housing market scored big this week when a first-time home buyer shelled out over a half-million dollars to call this penthouse loft in Corktown
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Safe as houses? Not in this fast, volatile market

The Second World War delivered a double blow to the housing market: more than one million homes were damaged or destroyed in London alone
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