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Mortgage News for Saturday - March 20, 2004

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• Home boom boost prices
• South Florida second-home buyers fuel price hikes up the coast
• Low Rates Indicate Another Round of Mortgage Refinancing
• PlainsCapital expanding its bank operations to San Antonio
• Home improvement buffs take in latest trends
• Fence-sitters drive mortgage refinancing boom
• Refinance mortgage even with bad credit
• Green belt worried over plans for two million new houses
• The great house price bubble just keeps on expanding and expanding
• Masco puts house in order, analyst says
• Atypical mortgages: smaller payments, greater uncertainty
• Looking for tax deductions
• Mortgage 'Mr fix-it' wants cheap deals for all
• Purchasing a home for first time? Seminar in Clyde Tuesday
• Home Builders Seen Beating Predictions
• Companies Reshape Home-Selling Landscape
• Evictions reverse joy of Habitat
• BB&T slashes its 2004 profit forecast
• Post-purchase priorities
• County median home prices still climbing
• Triad legislators support law fighting predatory lending
• Builders weigh in on intelligent growth
Mortgage News
Mortgage 'Mr fix-it' wants cheap deals for all - 2004-03-20
David Miles, professor of finance at Imperial College London, has a self-deprecatory theory for Gordon Brown's decision to have him to report on the malfunctioning market for long-term mortgages. He was, he says, the only economist with a long-term mortgage that the chancellor could find.

In spite of his modest manner, however, Miles has dropped something of a bombshell on the home loans industry in his final report, delivered just before the Budget.
Read the full story at Financial Times
 
Purchasing a home for first time? Seminar in Clyde Tuesday - 2004-03-20
Purchasing your first home can make almost anyone a little nervous, but it doesn't have to. The First-Time Homebuyer Program given by Home Savings is designed to take the worry out of this sometimes overwhelming process.

According to Daniel Plant, Vice President of Residential Mortgage Lending, Home Savings Northeast Division, this program is geared to a segment of homebuyers who are typically overlooked.
Read the full story at The News-Messenger
 






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