HKMC expands mortgage insurance program (Insurance Business Review)
The Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation has announced the expansion of its mortgage insurance program to cover loans secured by non owner-occupied residential properties.

Homeowners, banks getting cash creative - Arkansas Democrat Gazette

Homeowners, banks getting cash creative Arkansas Democrat Gazette, AR - 23 hours ago (Chase was the trustee on one mortgage loan Brennan settled, though another bank has since acquired that business. ) A spokesman for Fremont General Corp., …

Australia Mortgage-Backed Bond Sales Fall 87% to Three-Year Low - Bloomberg

Australia Mortgage-Backed Bond Sales Fall 87% to Three-Year Low Bloomberg - 9 hours ago Investors concerned about losses tied to US subprime securities fled the market and mortgage- lenders including Macquarie Group Ltd. and Rams Home Loans …

MORTGAGE MELTDOWN / Johnnie Pitts - San Francisco Chronicle

MORTGAGE MELTDOWN / Johnnie Pitts San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 2 hours ago "It says right here what I have to pay for the life of the loan," he said. "Now I know exactly what I have to work with. Not like that adjustable-mortgage …

Charismatic mortgage broker went for hard sell (The New Zealand Herald)
When homeowner Christopher Aultman, a mechanic for Union Pacific Railroad, called Quick Loan Funding in July 2005, a man identifying himself as Tim answered.

Fitch Rates GSR Mortgage Loan Trust $695.23MM 2007-5F (Centre Daily Times)
Fitch rates GSR Mortgage Loan Trust’s residential mortgage pass-through certificates, series 2007-5F, as follows:

Fitch Rates GSR Mortgage Loan Trust $695.23MM 2007-5F - Business Wire (press release)

Fitch Rates GSR Mortgage Loan Trust $695.23MM 2007-5F Business Wire (press release), CA - Dec 28, 2007 1, 2007), the pool of loans consists of 1235 fixed-rate mortgage loans, which have 20- through 30-year amortization terms. The mortgage pool has an average … Fitch Rates FHASI $265MM Mortgage PT Ctfs, Series 2007-6 Business Wire (press release) Fitch Rates CWMBS $781.8MM Mtge PT Ctfs Series 2007-2 Business Wire (press release) all 17 news articles

MORTGAGE MELTDOWN / The Gardner Family - San Francisco Chronicle

MORTGAGE MELTDOWN / The Gardner Family San Francisco Chronicle,  USA - 2 hours ago The mortgage has been transferred to a new servicer, which said it is willing to see if the loan can be modified to be affordable for the Gardners. …

Mortgage crisis front and center: East Bay housing market hit hard by lending crisis (BizJournals)
The housing downturn initially described as a market correction after a three-year boom turned into a full-fledged meltdown in 2007, when Wall Street investors spooked by rising default rates shied away from mortgage-backed securities.

Business people - Anchorage Daily News (subscription)

Business people Anchorage Daily News (subscription), AK - 1 hour ago Jackie Toppin joined Preferred Mortgage LLC as a mortgage loan officer. Toppin has been a top producer in the mortgage industry since 1977. …

Australia Mortgage-Backed Bond Sales Fall 87% to Three-Year Low (Bloomberg.com)
Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) — Australian mortgage-backed bond sales fell to the lowest in three years as the fallout from the U.S. housing recession cut demand for the assets in the second half of the year.

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RAB nudges up Northern Rock stake again
MSN UK News - RAB and hedge fund SRM Global, the beleaguered mortgage lender’s largest shareholder, had called for Northern Rock to hold an emergency shareholder meeting over its future and the bank gave in last week, setting a date of January 15. SRM and RAB have

HEARD ON THE STREET
Wall Street Journal - In late November, British mortgage lender Bradford & Bingley sold $8.4 billion of loans from its books to French bank Dexia and GE Real Estate. Regional banks in the U.S. tend to have smaller menus of noncore businesses. But they will likely be trying

Stocks Lose Ground After Bhutto Death
WTOP Radio - Shares of the student lender, officially known as SLM Corp., fell sharply last week amid concerns about its plans following the collapse of a $25 billion buyout deal. Declining issues outnumbered advancers by more than 3 to 1 on the New York Stock

Property clinic
Daily Telegraph - The mortgage lender commissioned the survey and my niece paid £550 for a report. What should she do? David Fleming writes: With regard to defects such as this, the general rule is still “buyer beware”. The standard property information form does not

House market is steady in popular areas as prices fall around them
Times Online - Bleak forecasts for the housing market were further underlined yesterday as data from a leading mortgage lender showed that house prices were continuing to fall throughout the country. The latest figures from Nationwide revealed that prices have

Audit faults Md. oversight of mortgage sector
Baltimore Sun - As of June, state regulators were as much as two years late in performing required mortgage-lender examinations, according to a new audit by the Department of Legislative Services. A flood of mortgage-broker applications overwhelmed the Office of the

Canada Stocks Advance, Led by Barrick Gold, Suncor, Royal Bank
Bloomberg - Royal Bank of Canada, the nation’s largest lender by assets, added C$1.14, or 2.3 percent, to C$50.80. Smaller rival Bank of Canadian banks are headed for their first decline in five years, after the U.S. housing and mortgage crisis reduced the value

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