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Reverse Mortgage Supplemental Retirement Financing Strategy
13 August 2008Image Source: www.bestsyndication.com
A reverse mortgage is a loan for senior citizens. It is often used to cover medical expenses, and is becoming a common way for retired persons to supplement their existing monthly retirement income.
This is a loan that senior home owners may take against their current home. You don’t need to pay monthly [...]
The Real Estate Business isn’t doing bad!
1 June 2008The National Association of Realtors, in it’s recently concluded annual conference challenged it�s members with an important task this year. The association through its president has announced dismay over the tons of bad publicity the Real Estate business has been getting these past few months due to fluctuating interest rates on mortgages. Many media people [...]
FBI Reports Mortgage Fraud Cases are on the Rise
1 May 2008The Federal Bureau of Investigation is starting to see a tremendous surge in mortgage fraud investigations that they have diverted agents from menial tasks to help stem the problem. Fraud in US financial Institutions, as well as those associated with lending practices are on the rise as a result of the sub-prime mortgage debacle. There [...]
Sale of Vacant homes Hits Record High
29 April 2008The Census Bureau in a report has shown that the volume of vacant houses that are coming up for sale is at a high of 2.9% of all US homes and that figure excludes rental properties. The last highest level was recorded way back 1956 and the figures are sending shivers to homeowners as they [...]
Homes, now cheaper than Ever
25 April 2008If area is taken into account, the current home prices in the US are at the lowest levels in many years and that goes for all the levels of the spectrum. The realty business has relied on the price/square foot metric to avoid the influencing of house sizes on pricing trends.
The prices per square foot [...]
Freddie and Fannie’s Proposed Fix - Flawed
17 April 2008No sooner that the proposal from Freddie and Fannie have hit the Mortgage crisis and after it was hailed to be the next best thing to what had happened to the sub-prime lending industry, experts from all sides are already crying foul even before they have been put in place. Why, the people from the [...]
House Prices hit Rock Bottom
5 March 2008Many are asking why the hell this happened in the first place, the housing market has suffered most from the sub-prime lending money problems. Existing house sales are up a notch but still not as good as it used to perform. People inflate their house prices when selling due to expected haggling during price negotiations. [...]
Global Effects of the Sub-Prime Lending Market Problems in the US
1 March 2008HSBC, one of the world’s largest banks has announced that it has suffered a total loss of more $17 Billion making it one of the worst hit financial institutions by the financial woes that the US is currently facing. The company says that the loss is high but gains in the Asian market have helped [...]
Federal Reserve – No New Rate Adjustments ….. For Now!?
29 February 2008The unwillingness of the Federal Reserve to signal another round of rate adjustments, maybe due to the utter ineffectiveness of such measures to correct the ailing economy. Mortgages that remain unpaid are on the rise and more and more people sent to the streets. With such high demand for rental properties there is little left [...]
House Market - Down in the Gutters?
25 February 2008House prices continue to slide with only the market in vacation homes showing movement. Rentals are on the rise but prime properties continue to decrease leaving many without decent housing. Buyers holding off till things stabilize a bit and insurance industry flaws and loopholes are patched up. Congress continues to debate on how to bring [...]
