BART ''Transit Village'' Features Spectacular New Homes at Incredibly Low Prices - 2004-02-22
This weekend BART, the city of Richmond and The Olson Company will highlight their newest transit village next to the Richmond BART station -- one that provides spacious, award winning, beautifully designed single-family attached homes at breath taking prices!

Lenders like Fannie Mae are offering buyers larger loans because they figure people can afford a bigger mortgage payment because they'll be spending less on their cars and using transit instead.
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Bad debts to take sparkle off HBOS record £4bn profit - 2004-02-22
Britain's biggest mortgage lender, HBOS, will this week report post profits of almost £4 billion, but set alarm bells ringing with a huge increase in bad-debt provisions to take account of doubtful loans.

Chief executive James Crosby has already said that the company is tightening lending criteria as interest rates head north, with economists predicting they could hit a peak of 6 per cent in 2005.
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