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Mortgage News for Friday - February 13, 2004

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• US 30-year mortgage rate unchanged Friday
• High on mortgages, low on cameras
• Ex-councilman to serve 15 months for mortgage fraud
• Macon, Ga.-Based Bank to Establish Three Retail Mortgage Offices
• SEC Wants Investigation for Spokane, Wash.-Based Metropolitan Mortgage
• Right of rescission allows you to back out of a loan
• Greenspan to Congress: Future looks bright
• More gains forecasted in home prices
• Fiscal hit up north
• Hawaii mortgage rates drop to 5.25%
• Asian central banks assisting U.S. home buyers
• I COULD LOSE MY HOME, SAYS ANGRY ISABEL
• Home buyers get break as mortgage rates decrease
• TYSON FOODS INTRODUCES $50 MILLION HOMEOWNERSHIP INITIATIVE FOR TEAM MEMBERS WITH FREDDIE MAC
• Home mortgage loans drop again
• Countrywide Bank Enhances Presence in Philadelphia Area; Establishes Financial Center in Huntingdon Valley
• Fannie Mae Goes For Front-End Funding For Feb
• Two men charged in credit-report scam
• Fidelity D & D Bancorp, Inc. Posts 2003 Financial Results
• SouthFirst Bancshares, Inc. Declares Earnings for Three Months Ended December 31, 2003
• Sterling’s mortgage unit breaks $1 billion
• Real estate lending here grew substantially in ’03
• More than zoning needed to keep some lenders from ripping poor off
• Habitat for Humanity to celebrate first house constructed in Jo Daviess County
• Inevitability of Higher Mortgage Rates
• Free autoresponder system for mortgage brokers at mortgagefollowup.com
Mortgage News
Inevitability of Higher Mortgage Rates - 2004-02-13
Highlighting the potential destabilizing effect on the economy of mortgage lending growth of over 20 percent a year, the Reserve Bank of Australia recently hiked its benchmark interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point.

This was followed by a widely expected move by the Bank of England to raise its benchmark rate by a quarter of a point from a 48-year low of 3.5 percent to 3.75 percent.
Read the full story at Hankooki
 
Free autoresponder system for mortgage brokers at mortgagefollowup.com - 2004-02-13
Boberdoo.com LLC, one of the top distributer software companies, unveiled the launch of mortgagefollowup.com.

Mortgagefollowup.com is a free service for mortgage brokers that allows brokers to automatically follow up with their mortgage leads. The system has built in sample emails and it also gives mortgage brokers the ability to create their own personalized email sets for every situation.
Read the full story at eMediaWire
 






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