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Mortgage Rates Hit Three Year Highs

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by Glenn Setzer on March 15 2006, 7:00 AM

After months of apparent indecisiveness, mortgages rates seem to have decided on a direction and are heading toward it. Unfortunately that direction is up! Both of the mortgage market surveys we track reported rates at their highest levels since mid-2002...
Over 100 Bills Limiting Eminent Domain Fill State And Federal Hoppers

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by Glenn Setzer on March 13 2006, 7:00 AM

When the Supreme Court, in June 2005, upheld a lower court's decision allowing the City of New London, Connecticut to proceed in seizing property from private owners to facilitate a redevelopment project by private developers, it set off a firestorm that...
Fannie Mae Saga Continues As Rudman Report Is Issued

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by Glenn Setzer on March 10 2006, 8:00 AM

The long awaited independent accounting report on Fannie Mae was released late last month, and while it sort of absolves Franklin Raines, former Chairman and CEO of the mega-mortgage company who, along with Timothy Howard the CFO lost his job at the height...
Mortgage Rates Flat in Freddie Mac Report, Up Sharply Per MBA

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by Glenn Setzer on March 08 2006, 8:00 AM

According to Freddie Mac, mortgage rates moved only slightly during the week ended March 2 and what little movement there was served only to narrow the gap between fixed and variable rate mortgages. Freddie Mac's weekly primary Mortgage Market Survey...
What Housing Bubble? Report Shows House Prices Still Soaring

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by Glenn Setzer on March 03 2006, 8:00 AM

Last week was a big week for news about the housing bubble and the quarterly House Price Index (HPI) report of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) released on March 1 was a good deal more optimistic about price growth than were...
NAR Issues Existing Home Sales Report For January

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by Glenn Setzer on March 03 2006, 8:00 AM

Following hard on the heels of the January new home sales report issued jointly by The Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Census Bureau (Department of Commerce), last week, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) has issued its report...
Mortgage Rates Retreat A Bit But So Does Mortgage Activity

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by Glenn Setzer on March 01 2006, 8:00 AM

Most mortgage rates retreated ever-so-slightly during the week ended February 23, 2006 according to the Weekly Primary Mortgage Market Survey conducted by Freddie Mac and the Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ended February 24 which was...
Listen Closely, The Housing Bubble Might Not Be Leaking

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by Glenn Setzer on March 01 2006, 8:00 AM

Americans have been straining to hear the sound of the housing bubble bursting for many months, and according to the media on Monday, they might not have heard a pop but there was definitely a ssssst....
Zillow May Not Be Ready For Prime Time

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by Glenn Setzer on February 24 2006, 8:00 AM

We have had a lot of feedback from readers about our first article about the Zillow.com website which was published here during the week of February 12. Nearly all of the writers were extremely negative about Zillow. For example: "This website is highly...
Redfin Lacks Zillow Hype, But May Ultimately Have More Impact

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by Glenn Setzer on February 24 2006, 8:00 AM

Zillow is the website with all the hype, but there is another which, in its so-far modest press notices, has been widely hailed as the new way of buying real estate. Redfin , launched earlier this month, is the baby of a relatively new real estate company...
Mortgage Rates Mixed But ARMs Not Much Of A Bargain

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by Glenn Setzer on February 22 2006, 8:00 AM

Freddie Mac's Primary Mortgage Market Survey for the week ended February 16 reported mortgage interest rates at their highest levels of the New Year. 30-year fixed mortgage rates averaged 6.28 percent, an increase of 4 basis points since the previous...
Put To One Test The Zillow Website Performs Well

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by Glenn Setzer on February 21 2006, 8:00 AM

After hearing all of the hype about the new website, www.zillow.com, of course we had to challenge it. We gave Zillow a lot of leeway, deferring to its Beta status and its disclaimer that it was not up to speed in many localities. And it indeed it was...
Zillow and Other Z Words Are the Rage of the Internet

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by Glenn Setzer on February 15 2006, 8:00 AM

Zillow may soon be a great website but, as even they admit, they are not there yet....
Mortgage Rates Flat But Activity Down From 2005 Levels

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by Glenn Setzer on February 15 2006, 8:00 AM

Weekly Mortgage Rates Report - Week Ending February 9, 2006...
Environmental And Asthetical Alternatives Exist To Minimize Hardscape

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by Glenn Setzer on February 13 2006, 8:00 AM

Reducing the impervious materials used to accommodate vehicles and recycling the water that washes off of our roofs can pay big dividends to the environment and maybe even the household budget....

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