Mortgage Limit for Federal Housing Administration Loans Upped - 2004-01-10
More Puebloans could acquire homes of their own within reach after the Department of Housing and Urban Development increased the mortgage limit for Federal Housing Administration loans to $160,176 -- $40,000 more than the current median price of a three-bedroom home here.

The previous limit had been $154,896. The move was an annual adjustment to reflect higher home prices. In Denver and other "high-cost" areas, the limit is now $290,319.
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Brown County looks for lost real-estate records - 2004-01-10
The Brown County Register of Deeds office is in the middle of an electronic type of scavenger hunt.
In early October, a software vendor that had been hired by the county was transferring real-estate records onto a new software system and — crash! About 2,500 documents were lost into the electronic ether.

She added that the Wisconsin Mortgage Bankers Association has agreed to post the entire list of missing documents on its Web site.
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