Few fall behind on home loans - 2005-02-18
Fast home price appreciation in 2004 helped drive foreclosure activity in the Bay Area to the lowest level in almost 13 years, according a real estate research firm.

Notices of default, which are sent by mortgage lenders to county recorders, signal that a homeowner is several months late on his mortgage payments and mark the first step in the formal foreclosure process.
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Hawaii mortgage rates at 5.25% - 2005-02-18
Mortgage rates tightened this week at 5.25 percent as City Bank cut to that level and larger lenders raised to it after one week of quoting rates an eighth lower.

For 30-year notes, Bank of Hawaii, First Hawaiian Bank and most local lenders kept it at 5.25 percent. Hawaii National Bank was higher, 5.375 percent. Quoting a lower 5.125 percent rate were Countrywide, Finance Factors and Territorial Savings.
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