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Mortgage News for Tuesday - January 27, 2004

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• Dealing with mounting debt
• Many still finding reasons to refinance mortgage
• The termination of spam by 2006?
• '03 sales of existing homes establish record
• Insurance firms to be questioned by MPs
• Commuter initiative no boost to homeowners
• MARTA worthy for homebuyers
• Analysts Expect Slowdown in Twin Falls, Idaho-Area Homebuilding in 2004
• Mass. governor shows $100 million plan to help construct new homes
• How does your debt measure up?
• Court nixes NYC predatory mortgage lending law
• IT'S TIME AGAIN TO APPROACH YOUR BANK FOR A MORTGAGE RATE CUT
• Freddie Mac Economist Expects Slowdown in Housing Industry
• Western Kentucky Bank Signs Will Stay Despite Union Planters Merger
• Good Times Still Strong For Myrtle Beach, S.C., Housing Market
• Strong Numbers for Mortgage Banker Countrywide
• Commentary: The death of the consumer is hugely overstated
• Fat-cat insurers 'out of touch' over mortgage endowments
• Buyers 'to focus on Euro mortgages'
• Housing market stays red hot
• Favorable Refinancing Still Available
• Capital Title acquires Nationwide Appraisal Services for $25M
• NVR energized by housing and mortgage boom
• On Personal Finance | The trade-off for low returns - safety
Mortgage News
Favorable Refinancing Still Available - 2004-01-27
If you thought you missed out on the low mortgage rates boat, think again. Economic jitters have nudged mortgage rates back down to levels not seen since July.

Rates on 30-year fixed rate mortgages average 5.82 percent, according to HSH Associates, financial publishers in Pompton Plains, N.J. As recently as early December, mortgage rates were at 6.18 percent.
Read the full story at TheDay.com
 
Capital Title acquires Nationwide Appraisal Services for $25M - 2004-01-27
Scottsdale-based Capital Title Group Inc. has reached an agreement to buy Nationwide Appraisal Services Corp., with headquarters near Pittsburgh, for $25 million.

Nationwide provides appraisal and valuation services to customers in the mortgage lending and real estate industries across the United States. The company also is licensed in 35 states to issue title insurance policies.
Read the full story at Business Journal of Phoenix
 






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