Headline News Archive

2008

June

17

• Mortgage lenders pledge more help. Major mortgage lenders have agreed to streamline and speed up the process for assisting distressed homeowners, according to new guidelines set to be released today.…

• La economía aprieta a los hispanos. La delicada situación económica de Estados Unidos está afectando a más del 80 por ciento de los hispanos mayores de 45 años, incluso aquellos que…

16

• Electricity bills going up, up, up. Here's a shocker: Electricity bills are heading up. Way up. Utilities across the USA are raising power prices up to 29%, mostly to pay for…

15

• Winter worries come early. It may seem crazy to fret about winter, with summer’s official start just days away. Yet the rising price of winter is on my mind,…

• Starting your first job?. To the hundreds of thousands of young people who have landed entry-level jobs that come with health insurance and a retirement plan, I offer my…

• Peer-to-peer lending for home loans. Homeowners who are having trouble borrowing against their house are starting to look to an interesting new source for cash: strangers. Online networks have emerged…

• Steps to take for surviving job loss. Unemployment can strike anywhere, any time. And as we see right now, it's striking more often. The national unemployment rate in May had its biggest…

14

• Anatomy of a meltdown. The Washington Post begins a three day series: Forces converge to fuel the biggest American housing boom since the 1950s: plunging interest rates, exotic new…

• Home equity losses not felt evenly. As a homeowner, seller or buyer, what should you make of the Federal Reserve's latest report on Americans' declining home-equity positions? Panic? Mild concern? No…

13

• Foreclosures jump nearly 50%. The number of U.S. homeowners swept up in the housing crisis rose further last month, with foreclosures up nearly 50% compared with a year earlier,…

12

• Mortgage investors to chip in for homeowners' counseling. Mortgage investors are rolling out a plan to pay housing counselors who assist troubled homeowners in avoiding foreclosure. Nonprofit counselors have long depended on charities…

11

• Urge educación financiera. La crisis inmobiliaria ha puesto de manifiesto la urgencia de promover la educación financiera entre la comunidad hispana y el tema de cómo proveer y…

10

• Subprime loans were labeled 'affordable' by HUD. In 2004, as regulators warned that subprime lenders were saddling borrowers with mortgages they could not afford, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development…

09

• California slow to reform mortgage industry. As the worst foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression drags down the California economy, the Legislature is making only limited progress this year on proposals…

• No-money down mortgages still available. Despite the bursting of the housing bubble, it's still possible to buy homes with no money down. In fact, it's possible to borrow up to…

07

• Never pay in advance to fix your credit. Picture this: You're eager to take advantage of today's troubled real estate market and buy a foreclosed house at a fire-sale price. But you don't…

06

• American's first quarter income shrunk due to slow housing and stock market (Chinese). 【明報專訊】美聯儲周四報告，由於美國房市持續低迷加上美國股市表現疲軟，美國家庭第一季度財富縮水1.7萬億美元。

• Despite interest rate cuts, foreclosures hit record high. Even though lower interest rates have made many adjustable-rate mortgages more affordable, foreclosures continue to reach new heights as more than 1 million homeowners face…

• Latinos no llegan a fin de mes. El 28 por ciento de los latinos, cerca de 6,6 millones de personas, admite llegar con dificultad a final de mes, lo que les lleva…

• Agregue valor a su propiedad. La reciente crisis económica ha truncado los sueños de muchos dueños de casa que deseaban cambiar su propiedad por otra más grande y mejor ubicada.…

05

• The trick to getting a mortgage fixed. More than 3,000 times daily, struggling homeowners call the foreclosure Help Hotline for advice on how to save their homes. And so begins the complicated…

• Advierten sobre fraude en hipotecas. El fiscal de Brooklyn, Charles J. Hynes, anunció ayer la acusación contra dos personas por fraudes de hipotecas y ventas de vivienda y previno a…

04

• Direcciones de internet más peligrosas. Las empresas que asignan dominios en la inscripción de direcciones en la internet están reduciendo las medidas de seguridad cuando asignan nombre en ciertos dominios…

03

• Las Vegas: 'mortgage fraud ground zero'. In the shadow of Sunrise Mountain, where Rolling Hills Drive turns into Gold Mine Drive, a plain two-story home sits unoccupied, like thousands of other…

• Protege tus documentos más preciados. Seguro que tienes algún amigo o has escuchado de alguien que perdió con el huracán sus fotos más queridas, documentos, listas de teléfonos, datos financieros,…