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Category: Homes Category: Mortgage News 2008 Conforming Loan Limit Announced By OFHEO Alt-A Lender Crashes and Takes Stock Market With It Alt-A Lender GreenPoint Mortgage Closes Multiple Offices Alt-A Lender Recinds Earnings Guidance In Wake Of Loan Losses Another Dramatic Downturn in Mortgage Rates Apartment Complexes May Benefit From FCC Action Against Cable Contracts Are Mortgage Applications Up or Are Applicants Hedging Their Bets? ARM Applications Continue To Dwindle While Rates Inched Up ARM Freeze Yields Solution To All World Problems August Pending Home Sales Do Not Portend Well For Year End Closings Bank of America to Buy Countrywide Big Players Call On OFHEO to Rethink GSE Decision Builder Spirits Not Rebounding While Housing Starts, Permints Continue To Slide Builders Confidence Hits 26 Year Low as Permits and Starts Fall Again Bush Plan To Help The Ailing Housing Markets Bush's Subprime Rescue Plan Coincides With Sobering Delinquency Report Buying Virtual Real Estate Is Neither Easy Or Cheap Can Saving PMI Also Save the Economy? Cramer Thinks So Checking Free Credit Reports Is A Good Idea Citigroup Announces Unprecidented Losses; Dividend Cut Citigroup Knocks Builder Stocks and Takes Hit of Their Own Construction Spending Slack Picked Up By Non-Residential Sector Countrywide CEO Angelo Mozilo Under SEC Spotlight Countrywide Fundings Fall; Lines Up $12 Billion Credit Countrywide Gets Big Cash Infusion And May Survive Crisis Countrywide Joins The Mortgage Lending Storm Countrywide Mortgage Reports Huge 3rd Quarter Loss Countrywide Rating Watch Revised By Fitch Countrywide Reeling Again as Bankruptcy Rumors Fly Countrywide To Cut As Many As 12000 Jobs Credit Counselors and Short Sales May Bail Out Mortgagors Current State of the Mortgage Market Delinquency Rates Climb Mainly In Four States Don't Be Afraid of the Big Bad Housing Market Dozens of Our Readers Report From the Housing Front E-Trade Suffers Subprime Wrath Efforts Made To Help Borrowers Avoid Foreclosure Existing Home Sales Drop Again Existing Home Sales Essentially Unchanged In July Existing Home Sales Were Down 2.6 Percent In April Fed Chair Promises "Substantive Additional Action" on Behalf of Economy Fed Slashes Interest Rates Fed Slashes Interest Rates By 50 Basis Points Federal Agencies Issue Final Guidance On Subprime Mortgages Federal Reserve Expected To Adopt New Mortgage Regulations FHA Loan Limits Raised By Senate FHA Reform Moving Right Along FICO Speeds Rollout of New Product to Meet Lender Demands Foreclosure Filing Up 68 Percent Since November 2006 Per RealtyTrac Freddie Mac and MBA See Mortgage Rates Through Different Lenses Freddie Mac Housing Forecast Sees Slow Recovery Growth Worries Push Mortgage Rates Down GSE Attempts To Help Mortgage Market Squashed GSEs May Soon Purchase Jumbo Loans But Other Limits Are Not Budging GSEs Reported Losses Mean They Are Not the White Knight Some Had Hoped H.R. 3915: a FRANK Discussion Home Builder Confidence Is Down And Permitting Appears To Reflect It Home Builders: Credit Crunch Is Hurting Business Home Buyer Survey Ranks Features That Are Important To Buyers Home Equity Still Being Pulled Despite Soft Housing Market Home Fire Sprinklers - A Great Idea That Has Not Happened Yet Home Price Appreciation Slowing But Has Not Stopped Home Prices Hold Their Own As Existing Home Sales Fall Home Prices Remain Fairly Stable as New Home Sales Drop Home Prices Show Positive Growth But Slowest In Ten Years Homeowners Insurance Industry Roasted By PBS, Bloomberg House Committee Votes On Another Bit of Foreclosure Relief Housing and Credit Woes Continue to Weigh on Wall Street Housing at Heart of Recession Fears Housing Decline Poses Significant Risk To Economy Housing News Turns The Stock Market To Mush Housing Permits and Starts Drop Sharply In December Housing Starts Hit 12-Year Low Housing Starts Hit Ten Year Low While Builder Confidence Sets Even A Longer Record Housing Starts, Permits Fall Again But Builder Confidence Stabilizes Housing Starts? Hold the Applause! How Long Will That Furnace Last? NAHB Study Has The Answer HR 3915 - Getting Warmer HR 3915 Addresses Many Aspects of Predatory and Other Mortgage Lending HR9315 Passes To Full House For Consideration Increased Loan Limts May Be Included In House Bill IndyMac To Resume Prime Jumbo Home Loans Is Virtual Real Estate More Than An Oxymoron? Lehman Brothers Shuts Down BNC Mortgage Cutting 1200 Jobs Lenders, Feds Finally Paying Attention to Mortgage Crunch Lending Survey Indicates Tightened Standards, Lower Demand Lennar and D.R. Horton Move To Staunch Housing Hemmorage Local MLS shuts down Redfin house review feature but other sites are still sponsoring them. In the meantime the CBS/NAR squabble goes a few more rounds. 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