Homeownership Rate Slides Again
another sign of housing market malaise, the rate of homeownership has slipped to its lowest ... that are riskier than prime loans with fixed rates. Experts say the tighter mortgage money ... they can't refinance their way out of higher-interest rate trouble. Also, a growing number of ...
Mortgage Fears Drive UpRates on Jumbo Loans
charging an average 7.34% for prime 30-year fixed-rate jumbo loans yesterday, according to a survey ... expected to keep the target for short-term interest rates at 5.25% and maintain their focus ...
How Credit Got So EasyAnd Why It's Tightening
When the Fed cut interest rates to the lowest level in a ... investment were still anemic, and the inflation rate was slipping toward 1%. The Fed began ... float, China reminded the U.S. of the fixed exchange rate's stabilizing role in 1998. China ...
Democrats Raise HeatOn Mortgage Overhaul
resell on secondary markets by guaranteeing a fixed rate of return to an investor. The tradeoff, ... consumers often get a lower rate of interest when they agree to a prepayment penalty. ...
Blame Greenspan?
decision by Wells Fargo to raise its interest on 30-year fixed mortgages in excess of $400,000, are due ... borrowers were encouraged to take out adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs), many of which are now ...
Top US house builder reports lowest buyer interest in 20 years
whove been on the sidelines, he said. Mortgage disruptions will hold back sales over the ... percent next year to $246,300. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage is forecast to average 6.7 percent ...
Rate rises hurt Waikato house sales
Rising interest rates are starting to bite in the ... the Reserve Bank lifting the official cash rate for the fourth time in a row ... have just raised their six-month and one-year fixed rates to 9.4 per cent, matching ASB, ...
Ventas Reports Second Quarter Normalized FFO Per Common Share Rises 23 Percent to $0.70 and FAD Per
"accordion" feature. Pricing remains at its current rate of 75 basis points over LIBOR, and ... 26, 2007, and acquired an 80 percent interest in a newly constructed Sunrise Mansion located ... principal amount of $9.0 million with a fixed interest rate of 5.65 percent. The initial ...
Ventas Reports Second Quarter Normalized FFO Per Common Share Rises 23 Percent to $0.70 and FAD Per Common Share Rises 25 Percent to $0.65;
"accordion" feature. Pricing remains at its current rate of 75 basis points over LIBOR, and ... 26, 2007, and acquired an 80 percent interest in a newly constructed Sunrise Mansion located ... principal amount of $9.0 million with a fixed interest rate of 5.65 percent. The initial ...
Rate increase pinch
across the south-west will be tighter after interest rates rose to 6.5 per cent yesterday ... Reserve Bank of Australia lifted its cash rate by 0.25 per cent, its highest level ... personal loans and changing variable rates to fixed. Welfare group Australians for Affordable Housing said ...