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Financial Times - What should I do if I have a mortgage with Northern Rock? The advice from brokers is to continue making payments to your mortgage as per normal. Most of Northern Rock’s mortgages are on fixed or tracker rates, which means they should not rise unless ...
2007-09-14 07:20:00 -
Foreclosure Prevention Workshop set for Oct. 31 in Mansfield
Mansfield News Journal - financial counselor may be able to offer free advice on how you can work out more manageable payment terms. Local officials are urging property owners with problem mortgages — those with adjustable rates that might rise beyond their means, or ...
2007-09-15 07:30:00 -
AG: Homeowners Targeted In 'Foreclosure Rescue Scam' (KPRC Click2Houston.com via Yahoo! News)
The Texas attorney general cracked down on a company accused of preying on homeowners needing mortgage help, KPRC Local 2 reported Friday.
2007-09-14 03:30:03 -
Foreclosure Advice from Attorney General McDaniel (KARK Little Rock)
Every day it seems that we hear more bad news about the housing market.
2007-09-14 02:43:54 -
Renters' problems overlooked amid mortgage crisis (USA Today)
Experts say the ranks of renters with dire housing problems are growing faster than the ranks of defaulting homeowners.
2007-09-14 02:08:32 -
Foreclosure Prevention Workshop set for Oct. 31 in Mansfield (News Journal)
MANSFIELD — If you suspect your home mortgage might be difficult to pay off, a financial counselor may be able to offer free advice on how you can work out more manageable payment terms.
2007-09-15 08:33:57 -
Wells Fargo Insurance setting up in Charleston
Charleston Post & Courier - Wells Fargo already has offices across the Lowcountry for its other lines of business, including its Wells Fargo Financial, private banking and home mortgage divisions. The company also needs representation in the state's insurance market, Hite said ...
2007-09-14 08:39:00 -
Friday, September 14
News.com.au - ... largest private health insurer, MBF Australia, says it will seek to take part in the consolidation of the health insurance ... THE Bank of England has agreed to provide emergency funding to mortgage lender Northern Rock after it fell victim to the ...
2007-09-15 07:23:00 -
Hovnanian Chief Says Housing Bottom Is `Very Near' (Update6)
Bloomberg - Pulte Homes Inc., the third-largest homebuilder by revenue, advertised in the Chicago Tribune a three-day offer starting today for zero interest, principal, mortgage insurance and tax payments for six months for homes bought at its developments in ...
2007-09-14 01:29:00 -
George H. Borts: The subprime mess: What comes next?
Providence Journal - The shock originated in the price collapse of sub-prime mortgages, a relatively new financial instrument designed to make home ownership affordable to potential buyers who do not qualify for federal mortgage insurance under conventional lending ...
2007-09-15 06:26:00 -
Finding gem in financial rubble
Chicago Tribune - Paulsen said most big money center banks have only a small amount of mortgage exposure, insurance companies very little direct exposure and regional banks even less. "There is still risk in the financial-services stocks, though the real problem is ...
2007-09-15 05:43:00 -
Woman puts prevention of suicide at top of her agenda
Winston-Salem Journal - After college at UNC Wilmington, Burchette came back here and was working at a mortgage-insurance company when her father called with the news on May 11, 2006. In the days that followed, Burchette felt guilty and asked herself such questions as ...
2007-09-15 06:40:00 -
Mortgage insurer PMI Group spent $200,000 to lobby federal government ...
CNBC - WASHINGTON - Mortgage insurer PMI Group Inc. spent $200,000 in first half of 2007 to lobby the federal government, according to a disclosure form. The company lobbied on legislation related to home ownership, and to make mortgage insurance premium ...
2007-09-14 02:55:00 -
Insurance road test
News.com.au - Younger drivers could benefit even more by shopping around, with the potential to save between $850 and more than $900, according to the first Cannex Car Insurance Star Ratings Report. It is like the mortgage industry back when Aussie and Wizard Home ...
2007-09-15 07:59:00 -
Mortgage Land's Latest Peril: A Value Trap
Barron's Online - WITH $4.1 BILLION IN NET WORTH as of june 30, the mortgage-insurance company Radian Group (ticker: RDN) might have seemed cushioned from the mayhem unleashed by the unfolding deterioration in the U.S. residential mortgage market. But it hasn't turned ...
2007-09-15 03:48:00