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Should down payments on government-backed home loans be ... - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The head of the Federal Housing Administration is warning that boosting the minimum down payment borrowers must provide to qualify for home loans backed by the agency could threaten the housing market. FHA commissioner David Stevens said at a House ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:17:00 GMT

Borrowers wait for answers on Obama loan plan - Huffingtonpost.com
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of homeowners are in limbo waiting to find out if they will be accepted for the Obama administration's foreclosure prevention program. Nearly 1.1 million borrowers have enrolled in the program since it started a ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:28:00 GMT

Mo'Nique to do stand-up concert at Milwaukee Theatre ... - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Ticket prices have not been announced yet, but they will go on sale 10 a.m. March 26 at the Milwaukee Theatre box office and all Ticketmaster outlets, including ticketmaster.com "> ticketmaster.com and (800) 745-3000. "On this tour, people can expect ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:21:00 GMT

See today's average credit card rates across the ... - MSNBC
NEW YORK - Jon Daurio, chief executive officer of mortgage investor Kondaur Capital Corp ... are becoming more accepting of these solutions even though they mean the borrower loses the home. The trend comes after more than two years of loan ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:38:00 GMT

Back to Market Fundamentalism: How champions of ... - Huffingtonpost.com
The "golden" years of the U.S. economy in the immediate post-WW II period, along with the recovery and expansion of the economies of other industrialized countries, afforded the working class of these countries a decent, even middle-class, standard ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:24:00 GMT

Colorado sees low use of stimulus mortgage-modifiction ... - MSN Money
Colorado’s use of the federal government’s stimulus-related Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) is relatively low as of February, according to a report released Friday by the U.S. Treasury and Housing and Urban Development departments. As ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:35:00 GMT

Getting a Home-Buying Credit Before It's Too Late - Wall Street Journal
Federal tax credits for home buyers are some of the best deals around—but you will have to jump through some hoops to get one before the deadline. Under the program, first-time buyers can take up to $8,000 off their taxes, and existing-home owners ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:33:00 GMT

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Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:28:00 GMT

We Bought A Toxic Asset; You Can Watch It Die - NPR News
Toxic assets — home mortgages packaged into complicated bonds that no one wanted to touch when the housing bubble collapsed — are starting to trade again. Planet Money wanted to figure out how this chapter of financial history will end. So we ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:45:00 GMT

Foreclosure wave threatens stability of housing market - AZCentral.com
WASHINGTON - The housing market is facing swelling ranks of homeowners who are seriously delinquent but have yet to lose their homes, and this is threatening a new wave of foreclosures that could hit just as the real estate market has begun to ...
Posted: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:31:00 GMT