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Mortgage News for Thursday - February 12, 2004


• Greenspan words lower mortgage rates
  Mortgage rates decreased this week as the home fin... more

• Greenspan-Fed seeks change in GSE overdraft policy
  Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan declared o...more

• US 2004 bond supply seen healthy, but below '03-BMA
  U.S. bond supply will stay healthy in 2004 but is ... more

• Barclays Capital to expand into U.S. mortgages
  Barclays Capital, the investment banking arm of Ba...more

• Mortgage Index Lower Again
  An index of mortgage applications declined for a t... more

• Australia's Hardie net surges on U.S. housing boom
  Australian building products company James Hardie ...more

• Deloitte & Touche to assist in Fannie Mae accounting review
  The federal agency that oversees mortgage giant Fa... more

• Fannie Mae Promotes Prefab Home Ownership in California
  Fannie Mae declared Tuesday that it will partner w...more

• Financial restructuring
  Dear Dr. Don, We bought a home in September of 2... more

• Right of rescission lets you get out of a loan
  Federal law allows you a cooling-off period when y...more

• Mortgages at ten times your salary
  First time buyers are being encouraged to carry o... more

• January new-home sales in capital area surge 33%
  Sales of new homes in the capital region jumped 3...more

• HK residential mortgage loans in negative equity lower
  The Hong Kong Monetary Authority revealed Thursda... more

• Hispanic home ownership on the uptrend
  Record-low interest rates during the past couple o...more

• Property tax increased 19%
  Westchester homeowers woke up yesterday to the pos... more

• State agency offering lowest mortgage rates in its history
  The West Virginia Housing Development Fund is prov...more

• Intra-family loans can lower estate tax bill
  You may be thinking, "Hey, the estate tax is comin... more

• Obstacles to landing a mortgage
  There are four vital things a lender will look at ...more

• Huge year for home developers
  Analysts said on Thursday that residential develop... more

• U.S. mortgage-backed bond spreads a bit wider
  U.S. mortgage-backed bond spreads were a bit wider...more

• US retail sales decline, jobless claims higher
  US retail sales declined in January as car-buying ... more

• Twin Cities home sales freeze in January
  As Minnesotans shivered in January's deep freeze, ...more

• Florida Home Sales Up 12 Percent, Says Florida Association of Realtors
  In the fourth quarter of 2003, a surging housing m...more

• Fourth Quarter Total Existing-Home Sales Approach Record
  Total existing-home sales, which include single-fa... more

• Home loan feeding frenzy
  Mortgage originators have taken more than 60% of t...more

• Parents in debt borrow from kids
  People in East Lancashire are becoming so overwhel... more

• Bankrate: Mortgage Rates Close To Standstill
  Mortgage rates decreased by a narrow margin, one w...more







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