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Task Force Takes A Look At Identity Theft

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by Glenn Setzer on April 30 2007, 7:00 AM

In the spring of 2006, with reports of computer hacks, lost laptops, and other precursors to identity theft increasing, President Bush appointed an Identity Theft Task Force to investigate the problem and suggest solutions....
Existing Home Sales Drop At Fastest Rate In 18 Years

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by Glenn Setzer on April 26 2007, 7:00 AM

The two most closely watched monthly housing reports came out this week and served only to muddy the real estate waters even further. On Tuesday the National Association of Realtors issued its report on existing home sales for the month of March. It wasn...
Mortgage Rates Drop Along With Inflation Fears

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by Glenn Setzer on April 25 2007, 7:00 AM

Soothing news about inflation was reflected by declining mortgage interest rates last week, although Freddie Mac and the Mortgage Bankers Association were in substantial disagreement about the scale of the changes. Frank Nothaft , Freddie Mac vice president...
Banking and Housing Giants Testify About Subprime Solutions

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by Glenn Setzer on April 24 2007, 7:00 AM

The chief executives of both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as well as the Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Federal Housing Commissioner and Assistant Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development testified last...
Watters v. Wachoiva - Supreme Court Sides With Feds In Bank Preemption Case

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by Glenn Setzer on April 20 2007, 7:00 AM

The right of the federal banking oversight system to preempt any attempts by the various states' to regulate federally chartered financial systems has been discussed several times in these pages over the last month. That discussion centered on a nationwide...
Redfin Revisited: A Company To Watch

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by Glenn Setzer on April 19 2007, 7:00 AM

Redfin , the Seattle based and self- described " first Internet brokerage " turned one year old recently. It has been nearly that long since we took a look at it so we made a second visit. ...While much of its business model sets our teeth on edge, this...
Job Report Fuels Mortgage Rate Increases Across The Board

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by Glenn Setzer on April 18 2007, 7:00 AM

Mortgage rates bumped upward last week, buoyed largely by encouraging news about job growth. However, at the same time the fees and points charged for originating these mortgages declined for three of the four products tracked by the report....
Census and HUD Data Indicates That Builders Are Not Bouncing Back

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by Glenn Setzer on April 17 2007, 7:00 AM

Builders appeared to have remained cautious about the housing market in March, pulling permits and starting construction on new houses in numbers little changed from February. The monthly data on new residential construction jointly released by the U...
Senate Moves To Assist Homeowners On Two Fronts

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by Glenn Setzer on April 16 2007, 7:00 AM

The Senate Banking Committee and one of its subcommittees dealt this week, however superficially, with two issues that should be of interest to a lot of homeowners . Hopefully these won't be problems that they have just teed up and then punted into obscurity...
Groups Call For Forbearance For Troubled Mortgages

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by Glenn Setzer on April 13 2007, 7:00 AM

A coalition of housing activists and civil rights groups has called for a six month moratorium on foreclosures to provide time for financially troubled homeowners with time to solve their problems....
Housing Recovery May Be Held Back By Oversupply

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by Glenn Setzer on April 12 2007, 7:00 AM

Will the economy return the favor? Spring usually provides the strongest home selling period of the year and with interest rates still relatively low and the job market improving the forecast sees conditions "ripe for a firming in housing demand," but...
Mortgage Rates Remain Quiet

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by Glenn Setzer on April 11 2007, 7:00 AM

In a statement accompanying the release of Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended April 5, Frank Nothaft, Freddie Mac vice president and chief economist remarked, "Mortgage rates have remained within a narrow band of 0.1 percentage...
NAR Chief Economist Upbeat But Points To A Few Possible Problems

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by Glenn Setzer on April 10 2007, 7:00 AM

David Lereah, the chief economist for the National Association of Realtors (NAR) has weighed in on the bankruptcies, foreclosures, and predicted Armageddon in the subprime mortgage market. In a column on the NAR website titled "The Subprime Mess" Lereah...
HUD Report Cites Record High Rates Of Discrimination Complaints

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by Glenn Setzer on April 09 2007, 7:00 AM

April is Fair Housing Month and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) just released its Annual Report on Fair Housing . The 2006 Annual Report announces that HUD and the Fair Housing Assistance Program (FHAP) agencies received a record...
Convenants and Restrictions May Restrict Options For Your Castle

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by Glenn Setzer on April 05 2007, 7:00 AM

True story. In 2004 a woman bought a small vacant lot, one of the last remaining, in a 1960's development of 400 homes. No one seemed to notice the cinderblock foundation being built on the land but everyone noticed when two flatbeds moved down the street...

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