Sheriff holds back on foreclosure sale of houses - 2004-02-28
For 25 years, Jacqueline Foxworth had steadfastly made her mortgage payments on her Ogontz Avenue house. In 1996, she assumed a high-interest home-equity loan for home repairs. When times got tough, she fell behind.

Now she's got a month to try to figure out how to keep her house from being sold at a sheriff's sale.
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First-time homebuyers should be careful - 2004-02-28
House price increases are pushing first-time buyers out of the market, but anyone lucky enough to get on to the first step of the housing ladder should carefully consider the affordability of their repayments.

First-time buyers accounted for a quarter of all mortgage loans last month according to the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML). This is down from nearly half in 2001.
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