Relatively few of the pages of legislation touch on real estate finance directly. Much of the bill addresses the way hedge funds, banks, and other financial services companies are regulated. One of its centerpieces is the new Financial Stability Oversight Council, which will have the job of issuing alerts when it sees lending practices becoming [...]
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Mortgage Rates Stay Put Rates on conventional mortgage loans were essentially flat this week, according to Freddie Mac. The average rate for 30-year fixed mortgages didn’t move from last week’s record-low figure of 4.57 percent. Also, rates on 15-year fixed mortgages reached a new record low this week, falling slightly to 4.06 percent from 4.07 [...] VIENNA, Va. – June 22, 2010 – The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) released its first analysis of suspicious activity reports containing information about potential foreclosure rescue scams. The report, “Loan Modification and Foreclosure Rescue Scams – Evolving Trends and Patterns in Bank Secrecy Act Reporting,” analyzed more than 3,500 SARs filed from 2004 through [...] Builders see returning Fla. market ORLANDO, Fla. – June 17, 2010 – Florida, viewed by economists as a hot spot of the country’s housing and mortgage meltdown, is having a pickup in builder interest and activity. Sensing a pending recovery in some of the state’s markets – including Orlando, Jacksonville, and Tampa – builders are [...] ORLANDO, Fla. – March 23, 2010 – Florida’s existing home sales rose in February, which means that sales activity has increased in the year-to-year comparison for the past year and a half (18 months), according to the latest housing data released by Florida Realtors®. Existing home sales increased 21 percent last month with a total [...] Florida expected to start adding residents again after population decline GAINESVILLE, Fla. – March 3, 2010 – It’s a small bounce, but Florida’s population should rebound this year from its first loss in more than half a century in a hopeful sign for the struggling state economy, new estimates from the University of Florida (UF) [...] Buffett predicts downturn will end in 2011 NEW YORK – March 2, 2010 – Billionaire investor Warren Buffett predicted that the real estate market downturn would end by 2011 as the housing inventory declines. “Within a year or so, residential housing problems should largely be behind us,” Buffett wrote in his annual letter to the [...] |
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