Headline News Archive

2008

June

03

• Tu plan familiar para desastres. La temporada de huracanas ya comenzó y es el momento de defininir un plan sencillo de lo que debes hacer tú y tu familia en…

02

• ¿Más puntos o más enganche?. Uno de los sueños de todo comprador es que el pago mensual por el préstamo de su casa sea bajo. Usualmente, para llegar a esa…

01

• What you need to know to get a mortgage. Getting mortgage used to be as easy as choosing the right color paint for a new home. Don’t have stellar credit? No problem. No verified…

May

29

• Banks miss an easy housing fix. Banks say they want to help troubled homeowners, but they are delaying deals that could save everyone - including the lenders themselves - a lot…

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• Settlement may give online realtors access to more listings. Home buyers could save an average of more than $2,000 under a settlement with the National Association of Realtors announced Tuesday by the Justice Department.…

• In housing, the strong turn weak. America’s home-buying season, when for-sale signs sprout like dandelions, is shaping up to be even worse than expected this year, with prices falling, sales slowing…

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• No más recortes del Fed. Muchas veces el Banco de Reserva Federal es ambiguo en lo que se refiere al rumbo de la economía, pro ahora las cosas no pueden…

• El 'short sale' es tu salvación. Cuando el agua llega al cuello... se trata de vender literalmente “a cualquier precio”. De salir de una deuda imposible de pagar, aunque el sueño…

• Cómo traspasar un crédito. Ser "cofirmante" te obliga A veces resulta difícil decir “no” cuando nos piden ser cofirmantes, sobre todo si se trata de un familiar o un…

25

• Improve your credit report. Some experts say that you should close old credit cards that you're not using very often. That can be a good idea if you're tempted…

• Real estate rules of engagement. When Sherry Spruill first met her real estate agent back in 2005, the two women clicked like old friends. Over the course of several months,…

23

• House sellers get desperate. Mark and Elaine Hendricks recently offered their 2000 Mustang convertible as a freebie to anyone who would buy their Woodbridge house, but even that failed…

21

• Reverse mortgages: Beware the come-ons. Last year, borrowers took out more than 132,000 reverse mortgages - 50% more than the year before and almost 10 times as many as five…

20

• Senators reach deal on foreclosure plan. Key senators announced Monday a bipartisan agreement on the broad elements of a plan to avoid foreclosures and speed the refinancing of mortgages for roughly…

• Propietarios logran salvar sus viviendas. Manuela Méndez y su esposo forman parte de una de las muchas familias hispanas que se han visto envueltas en un "mal" préstamo sin entender…

19

• Need a better mortgage? Call Uncle Sam. On Capitol Hill this week, lawmakers are set to continue to grapple with the best response to the rising tide of home foreclosures. But the…

17

• A new lease-purchase on life. The timing was all off for Catherine McAlpine and her family. She and her husband, Richard Eig, bought a house on a double lot in…

• FHA changes driven by surprise finding. Who have better credit scores on average - home buyers with higher or lower incomes? Inside the country's fastest-growing home-mortgage program, the surprising answer is:…

16

• Collateral foreclosure damage for condo owners. Barbara Sanz has never missed a mortgage payment, but the plunge in real estate is punishing condominium owners like her anyway. Evidence of hard times…

• Fraudulentos "rescates" inmobiliarios. La constante amenaza de enfrentar un embargo hipotecario obliga a muchos propietarios de vivienda a buscar alternativas que en algunos casos los exponen a estafas…

15

• Senator wants FTC to join Countrywide investigation. A top Senate Democrat on Wednesday asked the Federal Trade Commission to join other government and court agencies investigating Countrywide Financial, (CFC) the nation's largest…

• Luxury foreclosures. For sale: Spacious home outfitted with six bedrooms, 5 1/2 baths, granite countertops, stainless-steel kitchen appliances, a three-car garage, exercise room and wet bar --…

• ¡Me robaron la identidad!. ¿Cómo le robaron su información? ¡Es difícil saberlo! Hoy día, los delincuentes usan diversos métodos. Estos son algunos de los más frecuentes: Vigilan a las…

14

• FBI warns of escalating mortgage fraud. The sinking housing market is fertile ground for mortgage fraud, the FBI warns in a new report. The agency said Tuesday that reports of suspected…

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• A higher law for lending. The mortgage industry may be in meltdown, but at least one class of lender appears to be flourishing: Islamic finance companies that offer Muslim home…